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How To Easily Hide Client-side Content from Google Web/Mobile Preview Bot

Posted in: Google,JavaScript by Richard Hearne on March 8, 2011

Well here it goes, long time no see! Quick and easy way to hide content from Google’s PreviewBot which generates the preview images for Google Web Search and Google’s released-today Mobile Search Previews.

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New Google Search Infrastructure in Public BETA

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on August 11, 2009

Check out Google’s future search results in this just-released public BETA.

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Never Seen This Before

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on August 9, 2009

In an improvement to their generic “Your computer may be infected with spyware” message to blocked search requests, Google now lets you know when someone behind your IP is running automated requests.

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My New Year’s Predictions :)

Posted in: Conversion Optimisation,Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on January 5, 2009

What I think will happen to SEO/SEM in 2009.

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Google Spamming Their Own Index

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on December 17, 2008

A look at how Google can sometimes be its own worst enemy, and how universal search doesn’t always bring benefits to users.

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Google Webmaster Tools Geo Targeting – Great Idea, But…

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on January 17, 2008

I’ve been meaning to blog about a few inside tidbits I picked up at PubCon last December.

This one is particularly important for virtually all webmasters as it concerns the new Geo Targeting Tool within Goolge Webmaster Console, and something that Google hasn’t even told you about the tool yet. Learn more by reading on…

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Google News Finds HSE ‘Entertaining’

Posted in: Google,Keywords,New Media by Richard Hearne on December 27, 2007

I use Google News most days as the ‘entry point’ to my online news consumption.

Google News Ireland served up some odd results the other day however. Is there a secret message in here for the HSE?

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Google Local Business Center Now Includes Ireland

Posted in: Google,Mobile Internet,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on November 18, 2007

Google Local Business listings have been available for quite some time in many of the Google country properties.

It appears that Ireland is set to also enjoy Google Local – Ireland is now covered within Google Local Business Center. We might be about to get some quite cool OneBox listings on Google.ie…

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Google Pagerank Export FUD

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on October 26, 2007

If you worry about Pagerank Google has just given you one less reason to do so – the latest export is either a dud or a lie.

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Irish Sluts – Spammers Knock Mulley Off Number #1

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on September 25, 2007

Apparently Google no longer thinks Damien Mulley is an Irish slut…

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Ebay.ie Swamping Google.ie ‘pages from Ireland’?

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on September 3, 2007

Many people complain about Wikipedia being all over Google SERPs.

Is Ebay the Wikipedia of Google.ie ‘pages from Ireland’?

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Google Index and Cache Diverging?

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on August 9, 2007

Google is updating its index with increasing speed and frequency.

But odly wnough the cache seems to be no longer representative of what Google knows about your pages…

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Happy Birthday Red Cardinal

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on July 18, 2007

What happens during one year of blogging? Can a business be built on a single Wordpress install? Can I support myself by talking about Search Engines all day?

You betcha. Happy birthday Red Cardinal.

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Google Global

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on July 13, 2007

Check out Dave Davis’ Firfox extension ‘Google Global’. It’s a handy tool that gives you more control over your Google search results.

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Google Search Modifiers

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on July 7, 2007

Joost discussed a whole bunch of search modifiers for Google search URLs. There are a few more I’ve come across recently too.

And does David Naylor have an ‘seo cock blog’?

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Need Help with Google?

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on July 3, 2007

If Google falls out of your world, fear not there’s a place you can go for help.

Better still, experts will help you for free.

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Webmaster Console Updates Backlink Data

Posted in: Google,Link Building by Richard Hearne on June 17, 2007

If you’re a competitive webmaster then no doubt you use Google’s Webmaster Console to check your backlink data.

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Offline RSS Reading – Google Gears & Greader

Posted in: Google,JavaScript,RSS by Richard Hearne on June 3, 2007

Gears is a client-based browser-extension that allows you to access online data while offline. My first use for Gears is to vanquish some of the unread posts currently clogging up my feed reader. And I wont have to be online to do so….

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Reporting Paid Links To Google – Mountain Or Molehill?

Posted in: Google,Link Building,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on April 16, 2007

Google is launching a crusade to undermine the practice of buying links to improve your ranking. And the SEO blogosphere isn’t too happy about it.

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Note This Feature in Google Search

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on April 9, 2007

Ever wanted to store clips and notated bookmarks while you surf? Google has introduced a Notebook facility that allows you to store clips and information as you surf.

Google Note This Snippet

I only noticed this over the weekend, but it seems likely to be a very interesting feature.

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Google Phone Number

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on April 6, 2007

Last week I got my first phone call from someone looking for Google….

Not help with Google, but really looking for Google. Funny

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Google Desktop Introduces Plus Box Previews

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on March 26, 2007

Google Desktop now includes Plus Box previews.

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Google Acknowledge The Widely Rumoured Google Phone?

Posted in: Google,Mobile Internet by Richard Hearne on March 16, 2007

The first official acknowledgement that Google is indeed working on the much rumoured ‘Google Phone’.

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Is Google Holding A Gun To Wikipedia’s Head?

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on March 5, 2007

According to Hitwise Wikipedia is the #1 downstream site from Google’s search results.

Sounds nice, but would you fancy Google owning all your customers?

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The Coolest Secret Places on Earth in 9 Minutes Flat

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on February 21, 2007

Some of the coolest places on the planet, all via Google Earth.

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SES London – Google Working on ‘Pseudo-Pagerank’

Posted in: Google,Search Engines by Richard Hearne on February 19, 2007

Google are developing a Pseudo Pagerank algorithm that will compute internal pagerank purely from on-site factors. The new algorithm may affect what Google decides to index and how Google processes pages that receive no external pagerank.

It’s an interesting announcement that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else yet.

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When User Agent Sniffing Goes Horribly Wrong

Posted in: Browsers,Google,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on February 14, 2007

What happnes when your User Agent sniffing goes wrong?

So terribly wrong that you actually block Search Engine spiders from EVERY page on your site?

I sense supplemental hell a-coming…

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Google Webmaster Blog Open For User Comments

Posted in: Blogs,Google by Richard Hearne on

Want to comment directly on Google Google blog posts? User commenting has always been disabled on all Google blogs. Until today.

Google has just announced that user commenting will be enabled on the Webmaster Blog.

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Google Thinks I’m A Whore, Searcher Agrees, From Page 47!

Posted in: Google,Keywords by Richard Hearne on February 13, 2007

Yes, yes, yes. I know. I really must stop checking the referrers. I don’t know what’s creepier – that someone visited my site searching for ‘whore‘, or the fact that they went as far as the 47th page before dropping in: Perhaps it was just my magnetic page title and META description

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Using ASCII to Cheat Adwords – Which Of These Ads Grabs Your Attention?

Posted in: Google,PPC by Richard Hearne on February 9, 2007

Some clever advertiser inserts ASCII code to highlight the Adwords headline. And it works a treat.

What do you think? Shot inside.

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Is Google Analytics Updating Intra-Day?

Posted in: Google,Statistics by Richard Hearne on February 8, 2007

Not sure if I’m just imagining things, but I think both Google Analytics and Google Reader have been behaving differently recently…

More of my madness? Buddha knows.

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Google Gives Back Link Data, But Not Publicly

Posted in: Google,Link Building,Search Engine Optimisation by Richard Hearne on February 6, 2007

Google is now reporting full backlink data within the Webmaster Console.

A great tool, and you might be very surprised when you see some of the deeplinks you never realised you had :mrgreen:

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Google News Acting Weird?

Posted in: Google by Richard Hearne on February 1, 2007

Google News is acting all weird on me.

Screen shots inside.

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What is Google’s OneBox, and Will Local Search Ever Land in Ireland?

Posted in: Google,Search Engine Optimisation,Search Engines,Social Media by Richard Hearne on January 31, 2007

Most people will have no idea what ‘OneBox’ is. But if you use Google there’s every chance you have seen and use OneBox on many occasions.

And now that local search results are being returned in the OneBox on Google you had better understand what might soon happen to your coveted top SERP positions.

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.IE Domain Name Strategies – Using Aged & Trusted Domains to Establish Your Website

Posted in: General,Google by Richard Hearne on January 29, 2007

Picking up and hosting on aged domains with history and, more importantly, trust can have a hugely beneficial impact for a new website. It is very common for new sites to host on second-hand domains so that you can jump straight into the competitive SERPs.

A .IE domain came onto my radar recently that is a good example of how using an aged domain can really help boost your Search Engine rankings quickly. Could your next site launch benefit from this domain strategy?

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The Google Bomb That Got Away – Ireland’s Telecoms Poodle is Alive And Well (and living in Lower Abbey Street)

Posted in: Google,Keywords by Richard Hearne on January 28, 2007

Ireland’s best known Google Bomb is alive and well. So allow me to speculate as to how Google is filtering out Google Bombs.

I wonder if perhaps the ‘Telecoms Poodle‘ can give us any pointers?

What follows is more likely than not 100 miles away from the actual technique Google uses (if I’m that close I’ll be happy :mrgreen:).

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Say Goodbye to ‘Google Bombing’ & Hello to ‘Take Care with Your Anchor Text’

Posted in: Google,Keywords,Search Engines,SEO by Richard Hearne on January 26, 2007

George Bush is no longer a miserable failure. So says Google.

Some algorithmic changes over at the world’s largest Search Engine have saved some blushes for many a top politician.

But could this affect your websites as well?

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Who Said META Tag Optimization Was Dead?

Posted in: Blogs,Google,Keywords,Marketing,Search Engine Optimisation,SEO,Statistics by Richard Hearne on January 18, 2007

Did you know that the META Description tag can be one of the most important factors dictating whether searchers will actually visit your website?

But META descriptions aren’t useful for attracting search engines, they’re useful for attracting the people who use search engines. Read on to learn how your META tags can get you more traffic (and I’m pretty sure you aren’t thinking what I’m thinking).

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Link Sellers, Duplicate Content & AdSense Guidelines – Google Pronouncements

Posted in: Google,Search Engines,SEM by Richard Hearne on December 20, 2006

Google seems to be coming more vocal in how it communicates with webmasters.

Here are a couple of recent pronouncements from Google that are definitely worth a look.

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Google now Selling Domains

Posted in: Google,Search Engines,WebDev by Richard Hearne on December 15, 2006

Get your .COM domains from Google for $10 per year including private registration.

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