Google Profiles in Search Results I noticed my google profile displaying much more prominently in Google search results today. I checked in incognito mode and it displays there as well. Here is a screenshot of the results side by side. As you can see it takes up quite a big part of the area given to search results and includes an image, rich text snippets, and site links to my other websites. I then tried this in Firefox and my profile didn’t display in... [ Read: Google Profiles Getting More Real Estate in Search Results? ]
Google Have Bought The UK Comparison Site BeatThatQuote.com It has just been announced that Google have bought the UK comparison site www.beatthatquote.com for £37.7m. This is quite an interesting move by Google as it is a website that allows you to search and compare for cheaper prices across the financial, insurance, and shopping industries. Your typical price comparison website. BeatThatQuote.com today was sold to Google for GBP37.7 million. We think this deal is a tremendous opportunity for our company to develop new... [ Read: Google Buys UK Comparison Site Beat That Quote ]
What Is My LinkedIn Public Profile URL? I’ve been on a mission to create a personal brand and social profiles that display in Google when I search for my name, with LinkedIn being very useful for this due to: With the various on-page factors coupled with the number of links pointing to it, it means that it can easily rank for most peoples name depending how famous they or somebody with the same name is. The other benefit was that you could link... [ Read: Which of the Duplicate Linkedin Profile URLs Do I Use? ]
How to Analyse a Website as an SEO The process of search engine optimisation takes into account a whole range of factors, some technical, some focusing on content. The different factors can influence SEO in different ways, on different websites, and to different levels. Its a bit of a minefield and why no SEO evaluation is exactly the same as the previous. Here are a number of different areas I look at when conducting an SEO website analysis: Technical Architecture: Website Language... [ Read: Pre SEO Website Analysis Checklist & Audit Guide ]
Twitter Signals Help Ranking There are so many people using Twitter to share content that it has led search engines to include this data into their search results. The latest tweets can be seen in Google and they also allow you to search within your “social signal”. It was reported yesterday in an interview with Danny Sullivan that the information from social media signals were being used by Google and Bing. Here are the questions and answers relating to what Google stated:... [ Read: Twitter and Social Media Become Ranking Signals ]