Just done a search on Google and this site has received the Google sitelinks that I have been longing for (yes I am a huge nerd). It looks to have been a big update, the biggest ever in fact and tons of new sites have got them:
Site architecture and age seems to play an important roll in getting sitelinks, very few sites that are less then 6-8 months old have got them.
Here are a few links to help you understand sitelinks:
What are Google Sitelinks – Search Engine Land
Explaining Google Sitelinks – Problogger
Google Sitelinks and Brand Domination – SEOmoz
Congratulations to everybody who has got the sitelinks.
Update: The update is not currently showing up on Google US, so you will have to visit Google UK to see the changes.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
February 22nd, 2008
Image Credit: george bush
I don’t know if this is new one or not but I just stumbled across George Bush ranking on Google for a new phrase ‘who is a failure‘.
Up until about a year or so ago his page ranked on Google for the phrase ‘miserable failure‘ because a group of bloggers Google bombed it. Tony Blair’s web page was also hit and used to rank for the phrase liar.
Both of these Google bombs were fixed by Google: George Bush’s web page no longer ranks for miserable failure and Tony Blair’s page no longer ranks for liar.
Whether someone has started a new Google bomb or not I do not know, check it out by clicking on the link below:
Search result on Google for ‘Who is a Failure’
Here are a few links to help you understand Google Bombs:
Google Bomb Info. – Wikipedia
Google Bomb / Google Bombing – Search Engine Dictionary
Google Bombing – Simply Clicks
Update: Danny has posted about this over at Search Engine Land and the page has been ranking for this phrase for while. He believes that this has not been caused by a Google bomb and he does not think that the “Google link bomb fix” will change anything.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
February 21st, 2008
Just been searching MSN this morning and I noticed that they are now displaying extra links for certain sites when you search for them by name – very similar to Google’s site link feature.
The 1st site I noticed they were showing up for was Dmoz, a search on MSN for the phrase Dmoz now brings up the regular listing along with 5 extra sub-page links:
Image: search result on msn for dmoz
Other sites that I noticed the extra links coming up for include Wikipedia, Yahoo! and the BBC.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
December 3rd, 2007
Yesterday some members of Digital Point Forums were talking about a Google search results update and checking the results I would say they were correct. The thing that sticks out the most is that a lot of newish .com sites that are hosted in the UK have had a nice little boost in the Google.co.uk rankings.
Three of the .com sites that I have worked on over the last few months up until yesterday were strangely performing much better on Google.com then they were on Google.co.uk (all of these sites were hosted in the UK).
I have two possible theories about why this has happened either Google.co.uk is very careful about determining which .com sites are actually from the UK and it just takes a long time or Google have just fixed there algorithm so that all UK hosted .com sites now get full Google.co.uk ranking benefit.
It is not just my clients who have been affected, I have noticed many .com sites are now performing much better, Kevin Gibbons site SEOptimise.com appears to have shot up in the rankings, congratulations Kev.
I have not said anything to my clients yet, just in case their rankings disappear, I will wait until next week because I have made that mistake before.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
September 14th, 2007
A member of Digital Point Forums noticed today that their similar pages had been updated on Google. SEOCO has never had any pages show up when I have clicked the button so I went and checked straight away, finally similar sites are showing up. Some of the sites showing up include BruceClay.com, HighRankings.com and SEOCompany.ca, there are also quite a lot of my UK competitors showing up as well who I am not going to link to for obvious reasons. I think Google have done a really good job of finding out the similar sites. If you check your site by clicking the similar pages link underneath your listing on Google I think you will find that they have been updated, if you have never had any, you may have some now.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
August 7th, 2007
