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Going mobile – Google is calling time on non-mobile friendly websites from 21st April

Chris O'Brien April 05, 2015 0 Comments
Until now Google has focused on labeling mobile-friendly websites in results, but from 21st April 2015 if your website is mobile-friendly you'll get a ranking boost over your non-mobile friendly competitors in search results pages when Google's latest algorithm change takes effect.  The aim of this shift towards mobile users is to show people browsing from their phones or tablets websites...
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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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Fixing Google Apps Gmail’s

Chris O'Brien September 19, 2013 0 Comments
We recently switched our email client software from a mix of Outlook and Thunderbird to Postbox due to it's simplicity and responsiveness (we'd started to find Thunderbird a bit sluggish and Outlook was only used on a couple of PCs), after a few days we started to see authentication errors on our Google Apps email accounts with a error message of "Too many Simultaneous Connections". A bit of...
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Resolving Google Drive “The account that you entered does not match” Error

Chris O'Brien August 14, 2013 0 Comments
After we switched over some of our email accounts to use a secondary domain name in Google Apps we started having issues with the above error ("The account that you entered does not match...") showing on some computers but not others.  To resolve we needed to delete the Google Drive preferences and cache folders... Close Google Drive from the taskbar - the Google Drive icon is at the bottom...
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Are Google re-introducing the concept of “the fold” when it comes to website layout?

Chris O'Brien January 26, 2012 0 Comments
You may have seen a post on the Google Webmaster Central blog last week announcing a change to the way they rank pages. The change will mean that websites will be deemed more valuable (and thus achieve a higher placement in search results) the higher the ratio of content to advertising in the area “above the fold”. To quote the Google engineer who made the announcement; “… sites that...
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