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The Need for Speed in Site Performance and CRO: Time is Money!

Louis Venter — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:15:05 +0000

A few weeks ago I blogged on the need for speed and enabling http compression within IIS and Apache. There have been recent posts on how http compression and crawl rate are related and how speed is now a ranking factor, albeit a small one. While crawl speed is important the effect of site speed [...]

New changes could mean massive changes for SEO

Peter Young — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:20:38 +0000

Its been quite a month for search, including significant changes to the search engines pages, as well as a number of noticable acquisitions for the mighty search behemoth that is Google. In particular Google’s recent acquisition trail would tend to suggest very much a focus on search and social – something we haven’t seen recently [...]

The Definitive Guide to Image Search Optimisation

Barry Adams — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:20:44 +0000

Last week Jeroen van Eck and Bill Slawski lamented the lack of a solid guide to image search optimisation. Bill threw down the gauntlet, and I picked it up. Here’s my Definitive Guide to Image Search Optimisation. First, what do we mean with image search? Simply put it’s the vertical search option that allows you [...]

State of Search news roundup – episode 6: Google realtime, Facebook killings, lawsuits and a job in the robots.txt

Bas van den Beld — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:24:24 +0000

As every week we bring you news on State of Search, in a video and podcast! This week in episode six we look at Google Realtime search, Facebook killings, people suing and finding a SEO through a robots.txt. Links to the related stories and a podcast download can be found below the video. Enjoy and [...]

Google’s acquisitions (infographic)

Bas van den Beld — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:09:51 +0000

I’ve been thinking about what would be a nice infographic to make, one which actually had some use, next to getting the link attention for which many of them were made. One I did think of is an overview of all the Google acquisitions, since Google is currently buying more than a company a month. [...]

State of Search radioshow – episode 23: SES SF recap and new Google products

Bas van den Beld — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:34:04 +0000

After a week without a show Bas and Roy returned to do another great show. They were joined by fellow blogger Bastian Grimm who covered SES San Francisco for State of Search. Bastian discussed the quality of SES San Francisco and gave some highlights of the show. They even got someone from the chatroom in [...]

Six Ways to Increase Internal Links

Nichola Stott — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:45:01 +0000

Be honest with me… how often does this happen? “Yes hello, we’d like to buy some of your optimisation please. We have the business idea, clear objectives, brand values, and loads of shit-hot original content of all types. We’d like to get you involved right now, before the design RFP goes out and we’d like [...]

Google universal ranking factors: an overview of resources

Jeroen van Eck — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:30:54 +0000

Google is much more than a search engine that searches for the best webpage to fit your request. Over the years they launched many different vertical search engines like Google News, Google Books and Google Places. More and more results from those vertical search engines tend to appear in the regular search results, creating universal [...]

Ways of keeping up to date with (the) State of Search

Bas van den Beld — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:10:46 +0000

You can easily say State of Search is everywhere. We write great content here, share other content on Twitter, cover events give you insights, news in our weekly news roundup and we even have our own radioshow on Webmasterradio. Thats a lot to keep track off! But luckily the ‘social web’ has all sorts of [...]

5 Common Problems (and solutions) with Google Base

Sam Murray — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:55:43 +0000

“Why do we fall sir? So we might learn to pick ourselves up” After my usual reminder from Bas about my blogging deadline fast approaching, instead of wiping the sleep from my eyes and staring into the distance trying to think of a topic, I unusually sprung to life and typed two words onto the [...]