Yahoo has decided to put an end to its Site Explorer by the end of the year, something that will put a real dent in the way webmasters and SEO experts rely on using the tools for references.Site Explorer officially went live back in 2005, however, after being online for 6 years, the company has decided to do away with it. Eventually, it will migrate to the Bing platform and the Microsoft Webmaster Tools, a tool...
Back on July 12, Google honoured the 450th anniversary of one of the older and most recognized churhces in the world, St. Basil's Cathedral church in Moscow, built on the Red Square between 1555–61.This doodle got us to thinking, that with religious dates of recognition, how does Google decide what is worthy of getting the attention, and what religions or holidays do not. This particular doodle was posted in Canada, where there are many Russians to...
Once again, the giant company known as Google continues to tweak the way it displays content to viewers, this time, focusing on images and the image source that you have crawled and having it be displayed within your search results. Simply put, if you type "&surl=1" within the URL of the link request in the Google Images page, then Google will have the link of the image searched within the thumbnail URL. Something that can be...
From all the web marketing, SEO specialists and project managers here at Rank High in Toronto, we would like to wish every Canadian from coast to coast a special and happy Canada's Day. Enjoy this occasion because not only is it the 144thedition of the holiday, but this year, it makes for a long weekend! One other note, look for the Google Doodle to see how creative the folks at Google were this year....
For the month of May, 2011, Google became the first website to get to 1 billion visitors, a feat that was assumed to have been accomplished by Facebook. Now, although the 1 Billion visitors collectively is tabulated from all the Google sites, such as Google.com, YouTube.com, Gmail and all the other websites that fall under the Google umbrella, it is still a feat worht commending.Facebook still is the leader in terms of longevity of users staying...
It seems like just yesterday that we were blogging about the release of Google Panda and actually, we did, just a couple of months ago, however, fast forward to two months later and Google has decided that it will upgrade the Panda algorithm anyday now. Although the launch date should be very soon, the release has not happened yet, and with the many websites that have been affected over the few months from Panda, any recoveries...
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) - was is it? Why is it so important now? Well, first off, as we all know the internet to simply be websites, with www. and social media pages to upload pictures, send a message in 140 characters or less, however, there is a lot more to the internet then tagging your best friend in the picture you just uploaded. By that we mean IP addresses (Internet Protocol) the way that...
The buzz surrounding Google this week was the launch of the +1 website button, a new little tool for all website owners and webmasters to place and link on within their web pages. However what exactly is this +1 website button? Well for starters, you can get the button and code here: http://www.google.com/+1/button/Some people are asking what is the difference between this and Google Buzz. Buzz buttons are typically utilized to start a conversation about cool and...
Are you noticing a slight delay with your search results from Google lately? Furthermore, are you seeing a foggy screen when you are searching for something and you need it quick, when you have come to expect things reported quickly by the major search engine? Well, if this is you, just to let you know that you are not alone, and that you need to clean up your cache on your computer!For those that use Google...
In a recent tweet by Matt Cutts, Google Panda is a manual process, at least for now, this was the basis of Matt Cutts plug for the algorithm: "Short version is that it's not data that's updated daily right now. More like when we re-run the algorithms to regen the data. So far we feel we had 3 runs, the first roll out, the international rollout and then Panda 3.0 or some calling it Panda 2.1....