Yelp Ratings appearing on Paid Search
Thanks to Search Engine Land for pointing this out.. it seems good old Yelp and Google are running side by side on AdWords Ratings and reviews…
See the sponsored listing above, with 19 reviews from Yelp – it seems Google is definitely trying to liven up AdWords with reviews, images and a whole lot more.
Google & Baidu at War?
It seems that it’s not only the News Paper Kings that are having a go at Google. After Google’s decision to no longer censor its search engine in China – after a Gmail Attack/Hack – Baidu has retorted.
Try finding any source of Google Blog on the search engine, as posted by Danny Sulivan on Search Engine Land. Knowing the Chinese Government, if Google doesn’t play their cards right, they could end up been banned all together in China and not just by Baidu.
Baidu: an SEO must?
In the last few weeks and months there has been a lot of talk about the Chinese Search Engine known as Baidu. Baidu currently owns around 60% of the search market in China and over 20% across the asian regions – this makes it a good destination for SEO’s.
Now not all websites would benefit from a Chinese Page indexed and ranked on the search engine, but several industries can and do benefit from it already: More »
Mobile is Upon Us
Well we all know that Mobile search and advertising as well as mobile internet use has been on the rise for quite some time. But now, with Google’s launch of the Nexus One, we can only expect it to be pushed even harder and faster than before…
All in all the phone does look good, but reports & comments vary in its comparison to the ‘Droid and the I-Phone.
Comment Testing
In doing some strategic link building to day, I began to wonder. Does Google and other search engines index the comment itself?
You place your comment on whatever site and do it ethically with your name (or an alias) and the url you are trying to promote.
Now we know Google counts your name as the anchor text and back link, but does Google index the content of your comment as well and relate keywords in there to your site?
SEO – Everchanging Faces
With SEO’s everchanging Faces is still amazes me how SEO Experts can keep up.
The primary news over the next few weeks and months is of course, Google and their release of Google Caffeine to one (or more) data centres in the world.
What this means is that searches are going to be faster, hopefully more accurate, and contain less spammy junk and more useful information.
Google Local Business Centre – 100%
With the move heading to Localisation, here are a few tips on how to get a 100% complete listing on Google’s LBC.
- Fill in your details accurately
- Addresses and Phone Numbers should be on your website as well
- Add at least 3 Categories relevant to your business
Are you Locally Social?
As we all know by now, Google Social search is going to be a big thing. Little tweaks here and there to the algorithm are signs that social search and local search are going to be the mainstay or the bench mark of future SEO efforts.
The question is: Are you Locally Social?
No, I am not asking if you go out to clubs or dancing or the local bar every night. I am talking about your website.
Google Movie Search
This is probably old news, but I did a search for Restaurants in Belgrave today and saw a nice map from Google showing a Cinema as well. Googling the Cinema the search engine gave me a list of movies and the times they were showing – once again, awesome stuff Google.
Today is my wedding anniversary so we are looking to have a nice day out while a friend baby-sits. Thanks to Google, this day promises to be a good day in deed.
Google Webmaster Tools: Site Performance
Google Webmaster Central Blog announced the addition of a new feature in Googles Webmaster Tools – Site Performance.
Site Performance uses input and data from your site’s visitors as well as suggestions from the Page Speed plugin (available from Google – for Firefox) to monitor the speed and performance of your site’s pages (web pages) over time and offer suggestions on how to improve this.
With Caffeine rolling out and active on one Data Centre (http://209.85.225.103/ – 50% of the time you get Caffeine Results) – and more to come after the holidays. You can be sure that this feature will become a permanent fixture in Google WMT.