Google Webmasters - Tools, Tips & Best Practise for Website Owners

Google Webmasters – Tools, Tips & Best Practise for Website Owners

Google Webmasters is a collection of online tools, blogs, YouTube videos and discussion boards. It helps website owners to follow Google’s guidelines for an impressive website.

Google Publisher Center

As I write this, I'm testing out the new Google Publisher Center, so please bear with me! What is Google Publisher Center? Earlier today I received an email from the Google Webmaster Blog, informing me of this newly available tool. It looks really interesting [...]

December 11th, 2019|

Web & SEO in 2019 & 2020 – A Summary

Hi everyone, It's been a busy year so I've not had too much time to provide general updates about the world of web & SEO this year. I've been so busy with new and existing clients this year that it's been a bit of [...]

November 22nd, 2019|

SEO in 2019 – Brian Says It Best

Each year we get new "SEO in 2019" type posts from SEO's around the world. These usually come right at the start of the year, or at the end of the previous year, meaning a lot of them are just clickbait and are more [...]

May 1st, 2019|

Manual Actions in Google Search Console

Introduction to Manual Actions in Google Most people have been victims of hacking, whether they know it or not. Any website owner will have suffered attempts to compromise their website. Sometimes these don't work - good news. Other times, the hackers get what they [...]

February 18th, 2019|

Mobile First Indexing Rolled Out by Google

On Monday 26th March 2018 Google announced, via it's Webmasters blog, that Mobile First Indexing is now being rolled out. What is Mobile First Indexing? In a nutshell, Mobile First Indexing goes like this... Google ranks websites in search based on a number of [...]

March 29th, 2018|

Google My Business New Posts Feature

This week Google launched a BRAND NEW feature for Google My Business. The new 'Posts' feature allows business owners to post ads, updates, news and events on their local business card, which is a great way to catch the eye of potential customers before [...]

June 28th, 2017|

Google Set to Roll Out Mobile ‘Popups’ Penalty

Punishing Sites with Mobile Popups Last year, Google announced that it was going to start penalising sites that display certain types of popups on the MOBILE version of the website. The most common examples of mobile popups you will have seen is where you [...]

January 21st, 2017|

Google Chrome Not Secure Warning Kicks In

Tonight I have received the first warning message from Google for a website that DOES NOT have SSL security. This email states that Google is taking action NOW against websites that do not protect (encrypt) it's users details. If your website already has an SSL [...]

January 21st, 2017|

Google Search Algorithms

What Are Google Search Algorithms? The Google Search algorithms are the computer-programmed calculations that look at websites and decide where to rank them in search engine results pages (SERPs). Over the years, Google has launched hundreds of updates to it's algorithms, and has even [...]

January 12th, 2017|

Google Clamps Down with ‘Not Secure’ Label in Chrome

Hi everyone, HTTPS is not a subject for the not so tech-savvy, please bear with me here, I'll try to keep it simple, but it's quite a technical subject... Google to punish HTTP sites with 'not-secure' label A couple of years ago Google decided [...]

December 5th, 2016|