The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has served Google notice that it must delete any WiFi data it collected through its Street View operations within 35 days, but did not find enough evidence to levy a fine.
Cutts specifically mentioned that the change would affect queries such as “payday loans” on Google.co.uk and pornographic queries. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts has announced that a new ranking update, one that targets spammy queries...
I put together a list of the top 10 gardening and shed blogs in the UK and let people vote for their favourite site. I can't go into loads of detail but it was in the UK and for a company that sold garden sheds and garden buildings online.
Google is looking to bring its Trusted Stores program to the UK later this year. To date this has only been available in the U.S.but with thousands of sellers now signed up to the program, the firm's UK industry retailer leader, John Gillan, is...
The issue became much better known in February, after a UK flower site, Interflora, embarked on a huge advertorial campaign with links that passed PageRank. He also alludes to the Interflora advertorial penalty in the UK, that saw the advertorials...
Names.co.uk conducted research and found that companies such as BMW, McDonald's and Primark have forgotten to register their famous "street" names, leaving the abbreviations open to cybersquatters and other businesses keen to associate themselves...
In the U.S.we use credit cards religiously, however you might find in the UK and France that most people prefer debit cards. You may be doing everything correct in multilingual search – from translating your content properly to localizing your...
Schmidt 'Perplexed' by UK Tax Debate Meanwhile in the UK, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has said he is "perplexed" by the ongoing uproar around the firm's tax payments. Between 2006 and 2011, Google's UK revenues were £11.9 billion.
One of the complaints Cutts responded to on Twitter concerned the post-Penguin results for pay day loans in the UK. It's been less than 24 hours since Google Penguin 2.0 went live, but there are already several reports of big changes.
Image Credit: www.freeimages.co.uk When Google announced Enhanced Campaigns they said that mobile device bids would now be controlled by a multiplier on the base bid. Leaving aside the argument of which level (campaign, ad group or keyword) this...
However, as an English speaker in the UK, it makes very little difference to my browsing experience to change my language settings, so I have never changed it. Instead of "English", Google Analytics uses "en-us", "en-uk", "en_gb", "en", and others.
UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions. The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust investigation into Google's search business.
Payday Loans” in .co.uk The latest Google Webmaster video features Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts talking about what webmasters can expect to see in the next few months in terms of SEO for Google, particularly changes combating black hat web...
France, Germany and the UK, and globally September 16. Google Shopping is updating their feed specifications as part of the rollout of the new Google Shopping based on product listing ads. The changes will affect accounts in the U.S.as well as...
The campaign ran successfully in the UK for three days and they feel there is great potential to expand this type of campaign on a larger scale. Targeting misspelled keywords has long been a strategy in search engine optimization and pay-per-click...
Here are the top 10 sites which appear in news integrations on Google.com (the number of times they appeared are in parenthesis): patch.com, (4,352) huffingtonpost.com, (3,530) go.com, (3,140) nytimes.com, (2,141) washingtonpost.com, (1,873...
Take another example of the UK‐based holiday villa rental company, Premier Holidays. Fact: As SEOs we have far more power than we realize. Especially now, most of us do a lot more than simply build links or worry about rankings.
Google Chrome (1), Google (3), Google Play (6), Google Chrome UK (8) and Google Nexus (10) all in the top 10. Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center. And it sure was hard not to see Eric Schmidt.
In both the U.S.and UK, desktop devices, while accounting for the lion's share of clicks, see spending outpacing click-through rates. In the UK, CTRs were 72 percent of total, while spending was 75 percent.
UK government officials also called on Google to remove content that portrayed the government in a negative light. Google reported that it received three requests to take down content from UK officials during the second half of 2012.
