Google fined 3.4 Bn Euros for illegal restriction of trade in the EU

Well it was always going to happen, the EU warned Google time after time and today the clock ran out and they have been fined a record amount for restrictions of trade.   The EU commission also slapped Google with a 90 day cease and desist notice or face further fines. They can’t say they […]

Google Not Indexing Newly Submitted Pages From Search Console

Much gnashing of teeth and hair pulling over the last week as people realised that Google the great god of internet traffic had deliberately slowed down their crawling (reviewing pages for inclusion in search results) and indexing (actually adding those pages to the search results index). Oddly enough, the group that are making the most […]

Penguin 2.0 Rolled out by Google

According to Matt Cutts the long awaited and feared Penguin 2.0 update has been released by Google, how have you fared? Penguin2.0 is full on update rather than a tweak, and Google have stated that 2.3% of english language sites will be affected, which is a huge number by anyones standards. In recent times Cutts […]

Linking From Your Homepage To Your Homepage, is it Bad?

An Interesting post on Search Engine Roundtable references the possibility that Google is using self page linking as a spam signal where Keyword rich anchor text is used. In case you are not sure what this means, let me explain. Let’s say you have a site about blue widgets, and in your homepage content you […]

Living Without Google, a Case Study

In the first time during the last 5 years, Google market share of search in the UK dropped below 90% .  We have to ask ourselves is the honeymoon over, or greater than that, has the marriage hit the rocks? With multiple anti trust investigations around the globe, massive fines for alleged illegality regarding things […]