Category: Search Engines
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What To Do When Someone Loses Their Way (on your site!)
You probably read the headline and thought it was some self-help stuff about finding your way in life. Apologies. We’re talking ‘404’ website errors here, the consequences, and how to leverage them to your advantage. If you’re not the slightest bit interested in directing people who got lost on your site then head on over…
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Why Are The Knowledge Graph And Social Signals Important For Rankings?
If you want to get under the hood of a search engine like Google to discover what you need to do to rank your pages faster and higher, look no further than their Knowledge Graph. The knowledge graph is like a giant encyclopaedia of everything, with everything linked together no matter how tenuous the connection.…
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Everything you need to know about SEO but were afraid to ask
One of my favourite sites, Search Engine Journal has put together a brilliant list of the blogs and sites you should pay attention to if you want to really understand SEO. One of the weirder ones is Bill Slawski’s SEO By The Sea, where he covers what the search engines try to protect by way…
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How Does Google See My Page?
Or to put it another way, what does each page on your website look like when the Google bot comes crawling to decide where your pages should rank in their search engine. The same thing applies to all the other search engines too of course. To understand a page, a search bot needs to strip…
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Why is Google asking for a captcha?
Like many people, I have been using Google search for a long time, but today for the first time I was challenged by Google when I searched for ‘0118’ (I was trying to find the location of this UK STD number). Google said that in order to check that the search was not coming from…