01 March

Is Google’s new ad format close to breaching ad rules?

Google have announced a change in the way their ads are displayed in results pages. They recently told Search Engine Land that, “after experimenting with a new search ad label with a green outline, we’ve…

24 February

Google My Business Have Updated Their Guidelines

If your business is listed on Google My Business as in a Virtual Office you may, at some point, have found yourself pretty confused. Can be used as a valid primary location or not? Well…

15 February

Google Have Rolled Out A New Algorithm Update

Buckle up boys, it looks like Google have rolled out a pretty big algorithm update. From February 7th-10th Rank Ranger's Risk Index reported heightened levels of rank fluctuations on desktop and mobile, peaking on the 9th February…

14 October

New Google Mobile Index Within Months

Google's webmaster trends analyst, Gary Illyes, has announced at Pubcon that the search engine plans to create a separate mobile index within a few months. At the moment, there is a single document index for…

05 October

Understanding SEO for Google Local: How Google’s Possum update can work in your favour

Following Google’s latest algorithm update, Possum, you may have noticed some large fluctuations in your rankings for local search. The update, which has placed an increased emphasis on the searcher’s location in an attempt to…

17 May

Google's New Gboard: Everything You Need To Know

What is it?   Google has just launched a free new keyboard app called Gboard for iPhones and iPads. It is a custom keyboard with a range of cool features including Gifs, Emojis, Glide Typing and,…

16 May

Google Rolls Out Latest Mobile-Friendly Algorithm

Back in March 2015 we talked about Google's algorithm change that would start rewarding mobile-friendly websites in the rankings for mobile search. This saw many websites that had held out and not converted their websites to…

19 October

Google's New Algorithm Update Protects Users From Harmful Spam

Google is looking out for its users! Since the 5th of October, Google has been rolling out further algorithmic changes since the update to Panda 4.2. The purpose of these changes is to remove hacked spam…

24 August

Google Rolls Out Panda 4.2

Google rolls out Panda 4.2 On the 18th of July, Google began to roll out its ‘Panda’ algorithm refresh. Google Panda was first introduced in February 2011, as a change to their ranking algorithm that distinguishes…