Tuesday, April 19, 2011

How Webmaster tools kicks your rankings up to the next level!

We all know this is a hard industry to be working in. With continues Google updates and algorithms we need to stay on our tows and keep on changing the websites accordingly, but what about the small things we don't see?

This is where webmaster tools come in handy! There is so many tools that can help you clean up and improve your site like: Submit a Sitemap - This tool allows you to submit a sitemap in webmaster tools database to tell Google about pages on your site that they might miss. Crawl Errors - This tools shows you all the crawl errors on your site that can cause your site to drop of badly. (Crawl Errors are pages on your site that has links to them, but they don't exist anymore.)
The Keywords Tool - This is an amazing tool. It helps you see your website through Google's eyes. It shows you the keywords that is mostly used in your sites content and should give you a clear indication of what the site is about. If it gives you weird keywords you know you need to step up your keyword density so Google knows what your site is all about.
The Last tool I want to bring out is The HTML Suggestions Tool - This tool lets you know if there is any content issues with your site, whether it is duplicate content, missing content or problematic title tags, so you can fix it right away.
This is only a few of the great tools on Webmaster tools that helps you kick your website rankings up to the next level.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Finally Google phone support is on it's way

According to a post of the Google BLOG, Google released a new phone support for ADWORDS customers. This is great news, means we won't have to communicate with nothing :).

Towards the end of last year Google stopped providing accoutn managers to ADWORDS customers which really put a backlog onto resolving ADWORDS issues. However this latest post tells us otherwise.

Post from Google:

Free phone support for AdWords advertisers

We’ve worked hard to keep in touch with our AdWords customers and we’re always looking for new ways to support you. Currently we offer email and online support, and today we’re introducing free phone support for all of our U.S.- and Canada-based AdWords customers. When you have a question about your account or advertising campaigns, you can now call an AdWords specialist if you prefer.

Read the rest of the article here

Thursday, March 31, 2011

SEO and Proteas Cricket...

 What does SEO have to do with the Proteas or South African cricket? Nothing but this is so darn funny I couldn't not post it.

Windhoek & The Proteas!

Friday, February 25, 2011

Google's Latest Update - Time to take out the trash!

Matt Cutts released an update yesterday on the Official Google BLOG stating that Google have taken a new step forward in removing rubbish from the World Wide Web in an attempt to remove SPAMMY sites and bring updated, clean, useful informtion to people.

After JC Penny being banned from the Google search results and Forbes.com being slapped with a warning about selling paid links on their site, has Google taken a new LEAP forward in search and does it mean a new movement in whitehat SEO tactics for SEO companies.

For more information READ the Official Google BLOG post. Also one of our clients is running a competition to win a car. Check it out.