Thank you Google! We’ve just spent the last few months rewriting meta descriptions to an optimum length of 260-300 characters and now the word is on the street that Google’s rolled this back so now they’re showing max 160 characters per listing. Is it time for us to roll back our meta, too? To be honest – no! If you, …
Setting up or editing your social media channels is one of those essential but frustrating jobs – not only do you have to make sure the same details are correct for each platform, but each one has different image size and pixel requirements – hands up if you’ve spent a lot of time wrestling with your logo to make it …
We all know by now that Google doesn’t like to keep things constant for long, and the latest update from the search giant has confirmed that 2018 will see a big shake up in how things work; not only in the search results and how Google’s algorithms rank your website, but in how Google will read the very essence and …
Whether you have time to kill or non-to lose, we have gathered the top 10 Google Search tricks for you to become a real search wizard. 10. Use quotes to search for an exact phrase Probably the most well-known trick on this list. Simply try searching a phrase in quotation marks will result in the search results only displaying pages/posts …
After being found guilty for ‘abusing internet search monopoly’ Google has today been hit with a massive £2.1bn fine.
For those not familiar with the term, WWDC is essentially Apple’s Expo for launching new products and ideas. WWDC17 just wrapped up, with presentations by Apple executives Craig Federighi, Phil Schiller and, inevitably, Tim Cook, all there to discuss their latest and greatest developments in Apple technology. As with any WWDC, the build up to the event was riddled with …
As an avid Twitter user (normally when the football is on), Twitter is the social platform closest to my heart! Launched in 2006 as a quick fire way of sending messages (thanks to the limit of characters used in posts, very like older style text messaging), Twitter has seen unbelievable stats over recent years – most notably big world events, …
It will come as no surprise to search marketers and webmasters out there that Google has confirmed that they have pushed out a Panda update – and it was only last weekend. This is set to be a s-l-o-w rollout though, so stay on your toes! In fact, Google has confirmed that it could take months for the update to …
Google released a huge update to their Maps function in Feb 2014, replacing the Classic version with an upgraded version. This met with mixed feedback; some users find the new Maps is very slow to load and hard to navigate, but others find the enhanced features outweigh the downsides, including Street View imagery, easier route planning and clearer directions. Those …
Social login trends Here is a colourful infographic created by Janrain, revealing the stats of a recent first quarter study – Social login preferences: Highlights from this quarter: Google+ saw an overall decrease of 6% from the last quarter, but still had a 37% share of social logins, trailing Facebook by 8%. LinkedIn logins decreased by 10% with Facebook …
