What Motivated Google’s Hummingbird Update?

When Google announced that its Hummingbird update had come into effect, the most common question…along with the usual voicing of profanity…was why – why did they implement such a monumental change? Are they trying to move the goalposts just for the sake of it, or is there a genuinely important reason for the update?     Well, … Read more

Getting on to the Google News feed

Getting your site into the Google News feed can help to boost your traffic immensely and ultimately help your site to have even more success. There are a few things that Google specifically looks for when they are adding sites to their news feed. 1. You need to have content that is original on your … Read more

Google Give +1 to the World Wide Web

If you have your own website, then you will be interested in any tips and tricks for driving traffic to it, and improving its design or content to improve your search results. Well, Google have today – rather quietly – rolled out their +1 functionality across the web as a whole, giving sites another tool … Read more

Google Confirm Universal Shutdown Policy On Spam Hosts

Further incentive, should it be needed, for users to keep a close eye on the quality of their web hosting service came this week with the highly unorthodox but seemingly valid confirmation from Google that they can, and will, take action to shut out all of the sites hosted on a particular server if they … Read more