Press Press
08th Feb 2012

Google’s new privacy policy – Likely the most transparent it has been from a search engine optimisation perspective

Scheduled to come into effect on March 1, Google’s much publicised new Privacy Policy and terms, which it says will give users better search results, ads and improve their experience overall, have come under scrutiny from the European Union’s (EU) data protection authorities. They have asked for rollout to be delayed in order to fully verify the terms are not in breach of EU data protection laws. From a search engine optimisation (SEO) perspective, Adam Bunn, SEO director at Greenlight, says this likely is the most transparent Google has ever been about how it utilises consumer click through rate (CTR) data in its algorithm. It gives credence to conclusions Greenlight drew from its own research last year which, in Greenlight’s view, showed Google was already doing exactly this.

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Blog Blog
06th Feb 2012

Google’s new privacy policy confirms CTR use in algorithm

Scheduled to come into effect on March 1, Google’s much publicised new Privacy Policy and terms, which it says will give users better search results, ads and improve their experience overall, have come under scrutiny from the European Union’s (EU) data protection authorities. They have asked for rollout to be delayed in order to fully verify the terms are not in breach of EU data protection laws.

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Press Press
14th Apr 2011

Greenlight's research reveals well known news sites are early winners with Google’s Panda update

Early data from leading independent search marketing specialist and technology firm Greenlight, reveals big winners and losers, visibility-wise, from Google’s Panda algorithm update – designed to improve Google’s ability to detect and devalue “low quality content”, which it has now rolled out across all English lang

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Press Press
11th Mar 2011

eCommerce sites urged to clean up content before Google’s ‘Panda’ goes global

Hot at its heels of an algorithm update to combat duplicate content last month, Google has followed up with “Panda”, another algorithm change that hits purveyors of “low quality content.” Generally perceived to be designed to tackle conte

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Blog Blog
15th Feb 2011

Why links should be an important part of your SEO activity

What you may know already is that links should form part of any SEO campaign. What you may not be aware of is just how much of an incredibly powerful and influential component of the campaign they are. Some websites can even rank on page one of Google – for even the most competitive terms – based almost entirely on the makeup of their links, and with little to do with the content of their site.

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Whitepapers Whitepapers
29th Apr 2010

PageRank Basics: The Science bit

PageRank Basics: The Science bit
Everyone knows what PageRank is. However, most people only really have a superficial understanding of it, restricted to knowing that it’s about links and that the more quality links you have pointing to your site, the higher you will rank. When pressed on defining what ‘quality’ means within this context, and pressed to explain how Google determines it, many ‘ SEOs’ will at best draw you a diagram showing that quality links are those where the page doing the linking is linked to by other sites itself. This is great but doesn’t define ‘quality’ as a relative measure, because that’s what it is. In an attempt to summarise the fundamental mathematics of PageRank we’ve produced a short, to-the-point whitepaper that you can access below.

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Blog Blog
26th Oct 2009

Experts Vs Crowds

Experts fighting back The current balance of power between crowds and experts hugely favours crowds, largely because the social media and networking movement of recent years has given the crowd the tools and mechanisms it needs to build efficient methods of collaboration and communication, and...

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