Search engine optimisation (SEO) is evolving (or is that mutating?) once more as generative AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity eat someone’s lunch.
20 Years On and Website Hit Counters are Still a Waste of Pixels 🧮
Website hit counters clutter up the computer screen and run the risk of looking like an unsophisticated attempt to impress visitors. Counters should be extinct, with the exception being for humour, parody and pastiche.
Competitors Can Easily Edit Your Google and Facebook Business Listings 🤨
It’s possible for competitors to maliciously edit your public Google and Facebook business information listings. These attempts by rivals to mislead your customers could be happening right under your nose and you might not even notice.
How to Report Fake Negative Google Reviews 🤖
The Google business review system is suffering from fake negative comments commissioned by competitors or published by trolls acting alone. What can you do to combat this?
Google Security Smackdown: Websites Without HTTPS Will Suffer 🔓
Following several years of communiqué, Google has pushed the button and decreed all websites must become “secure” and adopt https. If your site visitors use Chrome, pay attention…
Argh! Why Does Google Delete Genuine Business Reviews? 🤖
Google deletes genuine “My Business” reviews by real customers. The frustration is incredible. Can the reviews be restored? Let’s find out…
Google AMP: Shocked Webmasters Learn of Changes to Mobile Site Search Results ⚡
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is the most important design and development change to hit webmasters in the last 5 to 10 years. Life just got complicated…
How to Comply with Google’s EU Cookie Ultimatum 🔧
Google have emailed webmasters warning them they must comply with the European Union website visitor cookie user consent policy by 30th September 2015…
Boost Your Biz Using Local Web Directory Listings
In this 10 minute video I demo the value of free online business listing directories for the purpose of publishing your business information to be discovered by search engine users…
What I Learned as a Google Search Engine “Rater” 🔍
In 2008 I worked for an Irish technology company contracted by Google to perform search engine testing. Did I learn anything important about SEO?
Plan Your Website On Page SEO: Free Excel Template 🚧
The next time you build, develop or SEO a website, consider using this handy free Excel spreadsheet document designed to help organise on page data…
Google Calendar Retiring SMS Notifications – iOS Calendar Picking Up the Slack
Google are retiring the SMS notifications feature of their popular Calendar service. There are a couple solutions if you want to keep receiving mobile handset alerts…
Never Be Late for #Tweet Chats with Google Calendar Reminders (Free)
Do you participate in Twitter tweet chats? Do you sometimes forget to attend? With Google’s calendar SMS tool you can receive reminder alerts on your phone…
“The Google Story” by David A. Vise (Book Review)
Are you interested in the origins of the biggest tech start-up story of our time? Discover Google’s humble beginnings and the two guys behind it…
Is Social Media a Sinking Ship? 🌀
The search engine advantages that came from using the Google Authorship rich snippet markup are null and void after Google decided to change the technology…
The Power of Google Plus for Local Businesses
Social media sites are continuing to gain influence in Google’s ranking algorithm. Naturally, Google favour their own Google Plus social tools in search results…