When searching to see which sites were listed for a Yahoo! search on SEOptimise I found that none of the results were relevant and they all had something to do with soroptimist instead!
Here’s a screenshot of the Yahoo! SERPs (click image for full size):
The uk.yahoo.com results list the sites I would have expected to see with a suggestion of “Did you mean: soroptimist”. This makes far more sense to show the correct results alongside the suggestion rather than just forwarding to what they thought I meant.
I’ve submitted for a Yahoo! directory listing this week so hopefully this will help to return results related to SEOptimise when searching on Yahoo.com.
I also found another surprising result listed for the same search and an “SEOptimise blog” query on Yahoo! UK. Instead of listing the correct page title it displayed the blog owner/poster name instead, the correct title is listed however for the label page in 2nd place:
Graywolf has posted 10 local search interviews with a further 10 more to follow this week. The interviews include some great tips from guests such as Aaron Wall, Bill Slawski and Rae Hoffman.
Local search is becoming a very important aspect of SEO and I have optimised SEOptimise.com over the last couple of weeks to rank for local searches such as SEO Oxford as well as targeting a broader region with terms such as UK SEO services, this has now started to deliver traffic with both terms ranking highly on Google.
Lyndon Antcliff has posted a list of the top UK SEO companies, ranked in order of PageRank and Alexa traffic stats.
SEOptimise is currently the 2nd most popular UK SEO company in terms of traffic behind Bigmouthmedia (3rd if you include Dave Naylor’s blog). I was delighted with these results and it goes to show the importance of having an active blog to increase traffic levels. We ranked in 9th place for PageRank, but the seoptimise.com domain was only registered a year ago so I can’t really complain too much about the PR5!
Other companies to feature in the list were Neutralize, Southbourne, Xseo, Fendigital and Daedal but for a full list please view Lyndon’s post.
Wordtracker have announced that they will launch a UK only option to their keyword database later this month.
“The new UK service will provide essential keyword research for:
- UK websites serving the local market
- Businesses wishing to target the UK (the world’s fifth largest economy)
- Search engine optimization companies and design agencies with UK clients”
This looks to be an excellent addition to Wordtracker, allowing users to choose from global and UK only searches. Earlier this week I posted about which free keyword research tool to use, writing about how I found Overture’s UK keyword tool to be very useful, now it looks like they’ll be a good keyword tool to compare UK search popularity figures with.
While doing a search for my last blog post Google displayed part of it’s page source code, mainly the stylesheet, instead of the actual results.
Here’s the screenshot (click image for full-size) of the page shown instead of the Google SERPs:
I also noticed this appear for a search yesterday but haven’t seen it appear before this, has anyone else found this error appearing recently?
This is a feature in the new version of Blogger I find quite annoying, when editing an old post it is marked as new and re-added back into the RSS feed. This has happened today when correcting a spelling mistake in my Aviva Directory post.
Does anyone know if it’s possible to prevent this from occurring for edited posts?
Google Webmaster Central now provides a backlink tool for site owners. Matt Cutts posted about this yesterday to make sure users understand that “the backlink tool doesn’t show 100% of the backlinks from Google yet” and “do not assume just because you see a backlink that it’s carrying weight.”.
When logging into my own Google Webmaster Central account, and clicking on the new links tab, I saw that 2,189 were recognised to this blog, while this still has a way to go before showing as many links as Yahoo! Site Explorer (currently 5,146) this is a great improvement over the sampling of results using a Google link: command search (98 links).
Yahoo! are upgrading U.S. accounts to Panama tomorrow and the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog have posted 5 best practices to make sure users are ready for the new ranking model.
“Here are five practices that you, if you have upgraded to the new platform, should put in place right away in order to get the most out of the new ranking model, and out of your account:
1. Include keywords in your ad (use our Insert Keyword feature).
2. Carefully determine keywords for your ad group.
3. Use ad testing to learn which messages are performing best for you, based on click-through rate normalized for position
4. Use our Excluded Keyword feature to help optimize your Advanced match type.
5. Review your current bids and set a campaign budget to meet your business goals.”
Panama will not be available until later this year in the UK, so far I have only seen screenshots of the new interface but I do manage a couple of American Yahoo! Search Marketing clients so I’m looking forward to seeing the new system in action!
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