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Why does the Page Title not appear in the Google SERP?

Published on December 5, 2011 By Pinakin Patel

Here’s a little tidbit for webmasters worrying about on site SEO. We have noticed lately that google can override the title tag on your web page and use it’s own title tag in the search engine results (SERP). So if your title tag is non existent or says ‘untitled’ then google will choose a title [...]

Google +1 make an appearance on Google Webmaster Tools

Published on June 30, 2011 By Pinakin Patel

It looks like Google Plus +1 has made an appearance on Googles webmaster tools this morning. You can see The number of unique visitors that have +1 a page on your site. Also the search impact of the +1 button appearing in the SERPs.

Google site preview shows where it got the SER snippet text from

Published on December 16, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

Just checked a page from the gapco.co.uk site to see how it has indexed on Google and noticed that not only did google ignore the meta description for the search result snippet but also now explains on the page previe where the snippet text has been taken from. So in this example it is taken [...]

How to track the links posted on twitter and facebook

Published on November 23, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

You can post a link on your twitter status and facebook wall, but it would be nice to know how effective this link is and how many people clicked on it. One way is to have Google analytics installed and configured on the landing page, but you may want to see stats for links to [...]

Bing Re-release webmaster tools

Published on July 22, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

Bimg/Microsoft have updated their webmaster tools suite to match Google’s offering this morning. A quick look at the features shows that they are now giving siomiliar information to what Google also provide but with the addition of fancy graphs using Microsoft silverlight. Its a big jump from their previous offering, which did not provide webmasters [...]

Google Latest search algorithm affects long tail searches

Published on June 21, 2010 By Pinakin Patel

Google’s latest search algorithm update

Fulltone OCD – The power of Google product Search

Published on November 24, 2009 By Pinakin Patel

Zone 1 Creative recently went live with a new online store built in X-Cart call the Guitar Amps & Pedal Co. GAPco.co.uk. The site replaced audiotoyz.co.uk and guitars-amps-uk.co.uk and so had instance traffic from these already indexed sites. One of the first things that I did was to install the XML Sitemaps module from magenticONE [...]

Google Chrome OS Beta Released

Published on November 19, 2009 By Pinakin Patel

Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser. Here are the screen shots of the operating system based on Linux.

Page loading times and Google

Published on November 15, 2009 By Pinakin Patel

In a recent interview Matt Cutts said that your sites loading speed will be a huge factor towards the way google ranks it. Google and many people at google believe the web/internet should be fast and so they should reward sites that load quicker and are optimised through reuse of code and parrallel loading. According [...]