14 December, 2009 2:00 pm | Posted by Ben Norman
As always the world of search has moved forward in huge leaps over the past 12 months. We have welcomed new sites – such as Bing – and have prepared to say goodbye to a few famous old names, not least Yahoo.
So what have the changes in 2009 meant for SEO in 2010? Well, the emphasis that has been emerging over the last year has very much been on the quality of websites. Google, along with Microsoft and Yahoo, have been cracking down on those disguising bad sites with good SEO; which has resulted in huge changes in rankings.
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12 August, 2009 2:20 pm | Posted by Ben Norman
The Internet is rarely a stable place. However, developments in the last few months, particularly in the realms of search, appear to far outweigh those in recent memory.
First of all in June, Bing gets announced. There’s a major furore as Microsoft sneaked it out a few days early, possibly in an attempt to avoid Google attempting to trump them – which they actually did with the announcement of Google Wave on the very same day.
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18 December, 2007 4:14 pm | Posted by Ben Norman
Google has now introduced and new feature that will enable you to add video sitemaps. This will enable you to give Google more information on the videos you have including META data which will help to make them more searchable via the Google video search.
To submit video sitemaps to Google you just need to use your add sitemaps function within your Google Webmaster Tools.