Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Tad Chef

Twitter and nofollow is the topic of this week’s Twitter column: While even Google who has introduced, along with other search engines, the nofollow attribute to combat spam a few years ago does not propagate the use of it anymore, Twitter went nofollow big time just recently. What does this mean?
Twitter distrusts everything you say.
Not only outgoing links get the so called link condom so that search engines ignore them. No, now also internal links from your tweets on Twitter get wasted. This means that even when you address us with @seoptimise we don’t get the Google juice due. Continue Reading »
Tags: andy beard, indexing, nofollow, search, twitter
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Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Tad Chef

Google changes faster than you can blink right now. Just some buzzwords that will bug you in 2010:
- Google Caffeine
- Google Real Time search
- Google Personalized search results
- Google Living Stories
- Google Phone
I could go on like for a while. It’s not my intention to confuse you even more though. I want to shed some light on the near future of Google, search and SEO. It’s a daunting task as I’m overwhelmed as well.
Thus I picked 30 resources on Google, search & SEO changes in 2010 from around the search industry and some main stream sources. Continue Reading »
Tags: 2010, changes, google, google caffeine, google living stories, google personalized search, google phone, google real time search, search, seo
Posted in google, local search, seo | 12 Comments »
Posted on March 13th, 2009 by Tad Chef
This week Twitter search was the number one topic in the Twittersphere.

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Tags: search, twitter
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Tad Chef
You don’t have to be a prophet to foresee what’s coming up in 2009 and beyond. Why? Most of the future web trends are already unfolding. For others the foundations are laid by hardware, web infrastructure and the broader economy.
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Tags: 2009, blogging, marketing, search, seo, social media, software, trends, web design
Posted in blogging, google, seo, social media | 54 Comments »