Latest Google’s News

Traffic from Google Search App showing in website analytics

Chris O'Brien June 19, 2016 0 Comments
Over the past few weeks we've noticed an increasing number of visits to websites at use our website analytics service, along with visitors to websites that use Google Analytics, showing up with a referring website (referrer) of "com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox" - while this may seem a bit cryptic it's not spam or other suspicious traffic and is in fact shown for visitors coming to your...
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Google makes another a move to call time on app-install intersitals

Chris O'Brien January 08, 2016 0 Comments
Google has spoken and an all too common feature of the mobile web will never be the same again if developers and site owners follow the path sign-posted by the search giant. App install interstitial ads - those full-screen ads that pop up suddenly when browsing on a mobile device prompting you to download and install an app - are proving too annoying for mobile visitors and Google intends...
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Get a Google ranking boost for minimal cost by going secure

Chris O'Brien August 10, 2015 0 Comments
It's nearly been a year since the news that Google will look favourably on websites using SSL security broke so we thought we'd revisit the top benefits of securing your website. Security is a top priority for Google and its many users - by increasing the effect that HTTPS encrypted sites have on your position in search results Google can protect their users and make shopping on the web a...
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If you got an email from Google, saying Googlebot can’t access your CSS and JS files, you’re not alone.

Why blocking JavaScript and CSS files

Chris O'Brien July 29, 2015 0 Comments
If you got an email from Google, saying Googlebot can’t access your CSS and JS files, you’re not alone. Google recently began sending emails to verified webmasters and website owners notifying them if Googlebot, their search engine crawler, has been unable to access JavaScript and/or CSS files on their websites. If you got an email from Google, saying they can’t access your CSS and JS...
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Securing your website with an SSL certificate

Chris O'Brien November 02, 2014 0 Comments
Google has been saying for a while now that having an SSL Certificate for your website will help it rank better within organic search results.  While it won’t give you a huge advantage over your non-secure competitors there is always the possibility that, in the future, Google will give secured website a larger boost on search results pages as more sites adopt HTTPS.  Google has become a...
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Google has updated it’s Webmaster Guidelines

Chris O'Brien October 28, 2014 0 Comments
On Monday 27th October Google published revised guidelines to ask for site owners to modify their robots.txt configuration to allow Google to access additional files that are used to display your website to visitors (these are called CSS and Javascript files) and previously weren't needed for Google to correctly index your website.  Google's new advice is: For optimal rendering and indexing,...
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