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Google PageRank Update – May 3/4 – 2012

David Correll on May 4, 2012 | PageRank | Comments (2)

Google is currently updating the Google PageRank displayed in toolbars and SEO plugins. As many of you know, Google ranks every website in the world from a scale of 0-10 – 10 being the highest/ most authority. A new website always starts at N/A. This measurement mainly depends on your sites Search Engine Optimisation and […]

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PageRank Scale – Visual

David Correll on April 4, 2012 | PageRank | Comments (0)

If you are a website owner or webmaster, in the SEO world the PageRank of your website is an important metric to monitor. Google usually updates the PageRank in the Google Toolbar every 3 or 4 months (every quarter). Many webmasters all around the world hang out for the update – it genuinely brings much […]

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Google – 94% of Australian Web Searches

David Correll on March 28, 2012 | Search Engines | Comments (1)

I was having a look over at Statcounter.com recently and specifically their public reporting tool gs.statcounter.com. This tool lets you see search engine, browser, mobile search stats etc for almost every country in the world. What has always been interesting is seeing the strength of the Google brand in Australia and how basically everyone uses […]

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Google Adds ‘More by Author’ in Search Results Page

David Correll on March 23, 2012 | Google | Comments (0)

Google has again updated their Search Results page to give more information about Authors and closer integration with Google Plus. If you have implemented Rel = Author for your website or blog then this information very much relates to you. Rel Author allows your picture and a link to your Google+ profile to show on […]

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Google Over-Optimisation Penalty

David Correll on March 19, 2012 | SEO | Comments (0)

Searching the web we often find many websites that rank high on the first page, but do not offer the content and quality we are looking for. These websites may be totally ‘white-hat’ and not doing anything wrong in the eyes of the search engines – they are just so well Search Engine Optimised they […]

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Google rolls out new +1 Button

David Correll on March 15, 2012 | Google + | Comments (2)

Do you have the Google +1 button on your blog or website? Google is rolling out a new design for the +1 button as they bring the design and layout inline with the newer style Google Plus logo. To explain simply, the new Google Plus logo has been for awhile this: So now […]

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New Google Privacy Policy

David Correll on February 29, 2012 | Google | Comments (0)

Starting from tomorrow March 1, Google will consolidate the privacy policy on over 60 of their web properties into one single and simplified privacy policy. Google has created a page explaining the new policy here: http://www.google.com/policies/ However several privacy advocates and the public in general has come out expressing their concern about this update, as […]

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Censorship – How far is too far?

jessicalynch on February 24, 2012 | Internet | Comments (0)

I’m certain many of you would be aware of the controversy in recent months surrounding the plight to legislate internet censorship laws, in particular SOPA and PIPA in the US. For those that don’t know, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) were bills that were introduced into the House of Representatives […]

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