I don’t know if you caught the news that a copy of the Google guidelines for website quality raters was leaked, but if you managed to grab a copy it was a meaty document weighing in at 125 pages.

If you persevered and read the whole thing you’ll have a good idea of what Google are looking for in a quality website. If you didn’t or couldn’t read it, there was a great summary of 16 insights posted by Dr Pete on SEOmoz. [click to continue…]

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Updated Click Through Rates For Top 10 Search Results

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This was a very interesting update from the guys over at searchengineland.com about a new study which sheds more light on the number of people who click on page one results in the search engines, and how many of them click the result in each position. The last study I saw on these stats was [...]

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What Does It Take To Rank A Site After The Google Panda Update?

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This was a question myself and quite a few other people were asking, and then Mark Thompson had a brainwave and decided to hold a competition to find the answer. As it turned out, a fair few things had changed with the Google Panda updates.. The idea of the competition was that entrants would have [...]

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Search Engine Verify WordPress Plugin

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I’ve just released another plugin. This one enables you to easily add those meta tags you get from Google, Bing and Yahoo webmaster pages that verify you are the owner of a website. The three meta tags the plugin adds to your home page are;

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WordPress Video Tutorials

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Free WordPress how-to video tutorials on how to use WordPress. Pretty much all the top questions answered…

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