There’s been a lot of buzz recently about the big AdWords shakeup. The news has been reported in SearchEngineLand and now Moz. And what exactly has happened? Well, in the biggest change in years, Google has finally removed the AdWords ads in the SERPs from the right hand side of the desktop. To make up • Read More »
Tags: AdWords, digital marketing, Google AdWords, Google+, PPC, SEO
As if there’s not enough to do, racing around and tweaking your websites’ code to pander to Google’s needs, there’s now the AMP Project from Big G. Announced yesterday on the official Google blog, AMP is the Accelerated Mobile Pages project. The aim of the AMP project is to improve delivery of content on mobile • Read More »
Tags: AMP, digital marketing, early adopter, Git, Google+, LinkedIn, mobile friendly, SEO, SERPs, twitter, wordpress
Wow, that was smooth. Google has simplified its logo, ridding the world of the slightly old-fashioned, serif font that we have known for nearly 17 years and replaced it with a sans-serif font. Initially, I was both surprised and a little dismayed that something so familiar was replaced without a word of warning but, at • Read More »
Tags: branding, digital marketing, Google+, logo, logo design
When Google announced last year that it would start flagging up mobile friendly websites in its search results it was a landmark for how seriously the search giant was taking the issue. Whilst corporate designers and developers have been creating mobile-first websites for some time, this was potentially a wake up call to every webmaster • Read More »
Tags: digital marketing, Google+, mobile friendly, mobilegeddon, SEO, SERPs
As an avid reader of the BBC News website, yes, mainly on my desktop, it caught my eye immediately when they had a button for a beta test version…
Tags: BBC, BBC News, mobile friendly, responsive design
I recently received a phone call from a local small business, asking for my assistance. Owning a mass of domain names, websites and email accounts, they were having trouble understanding and managing their portfolio, so I agreed to step in to organise and consolidate their web assets.
Tags: customer service, domain names, hibü, Yell, Yellow Pages
When that raft of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) floated in the other week I jokingly ended my post by making a speculative quip about when the .ninja and .rockstar TLDs would make an appearance. I even knocked up a quick graphic image to accompany my post.
Tags: domain names, TLDs, top level domains
Crimson Startups Ltd, the publishing company behind the Startups and GrowingBusiness websites, has announced its acquisition of is4profit Ltd, who run the www.is4profit.com small business advice portal.
Tags: acquisition, Crimson, David Lester, is4profit, portfolio, startups
Running a business where I purchase domain names (and set up web hosting) on behalf of my clients, I’ve had quite a few emails from domain name registrars trying to market the new tranch of Top Level Domains (TLDs). I must admit that I’ve been far too busy to really take much notice of these • Read More »
Tags: domain names, TLDs, top level domains
If you look at your stats in Google Analytics on a daily basis as I do, then you can’t have helped notice an increase in the “not provided” phrase at the top of your organic traffic results. What is this “not provided” in Google Analytics?
Tags: digital marketing, Google+, Hummingbird, not provided, organic keywords, Penguin, SEO