In the latest Google’s webmaster blog post they announced that they will be tweaking the algorithm to take website page layouts into consideration.
This update to the search engine results will only affect less than 1% of searches globally.
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Page layout affected in Google’s algorithm update
Friday, January 20th, 2012Google gets fresh with an algorithm twist..
Monday, November 7th, 2011Two days ago Googl
e released another twist in their search algorithm. From now on, the ‘freshness’ of a page will have an impact on the SERP’s for a site. The aim is to improve the likelihood of more recent stories ranking higher according to the latest news, updates or reviews on that topic.Allegedly the new changes will affect only 35% of search results.
The changes are an extension of last year’s integration of Google Caffeine into the average user search, which was designed to bring in more recent results for specific searches. Google Fresh which was announced on Thursday will be added on to this evolving news and event searches to a ‘real-time’ standard. (more...)
Using canonical tag to improve SEO
Friday, December 17th, 2010
If you’re a business owner and have a website, or if you rely on your website for your business, then improving its visibility in search engines should be of vital importance to you. One way of doing this is to ensure that all of your site traffic is going to one place. While this may seem like an obvious comment, a number of sites have come across the problem that their website is available at multiple addresses. This is a particular problem if you own multiple domain names (such as the .com, .co.uk or .net) versions of your site. (more...)
