SEO, Social Media News & Domains
SEO, Social Media & Domains
James Norquay SEO and Social Media specialist from Sydney Australia. For all the best social media and SEO news and information you have found the right blog.
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Google Search, plus Your World a new Personalized search offering!
Jan 11th
Google Search, plus Your World is a new search offering Google is rolling out in the US market currently.
Interesting points from this new product:
- This will show for logged in users.
- Deep integration with Google+ product.
- Image search will now show personalization.
- YouTube and Google search will have more integration.
- Users can switched between – Personalized and non Personalized.
Google gets caught buying sponsored posts to promote Google Chrome!
Jan 4th
So a hot topic in the search market today and probably the biggest story of 2012 so far is Google buying sponsored posts via a large number of bloggers to promote Google chrome. The funny thing is that Google has pointed in guide lines over the years that sponsored posts are not advisable.
Search engine land has found over 400 instances of sponsored posts by Google example:
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It shows that if Google wants to police specific search rules they need to across the board.
Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Years, Also a re cap on Charity & Donations work!
Dec 23rd
So it is that time of year again where every one is in party mode, yet at the same time I want to make a note that at Christmas time its is a time of treating yourself yet it is also a good time to give. Recently I have had people very close to me come down with cancer so it is a cause which is very close to me. At the same time I want to wish every one a Merry Christmas I also want to let people know about two great charities 1. Camp Quality – Kids with cancer www.campquality.org.au/ 2. McGrath Foundation – Breast Cancer research. http://www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/
A few days ago I sold off two charity items and we collected close to $71 for McGrath Foundation -
Christmas cancer appeal
Earlier this year we ran an auction of a 1000th Tweet an raised $60 http://jamesnorquay.com/seo-charity-auction-comes-to-an-end-with-60-au-donated-to-charity/
So please try and dig deep this Christmas for charity if you can, but overall have a great Christmas all and have a fantastic 2012, I have taken off some time from the 23rd December to the 9th of January, so I will be taking it easy for a few days.
Merry Christmas:
Merry-Christmas
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My Top 10 Predictions for Online and Digital in 2012.
Dec 21st
Well another year is coming to an end, how quick as 2011 gone!!!
I thought I would put together a list of my top 10 predictions for 2012. My list will contain things in SEO, Domain names, Digital Media and any thing else which fits into the online work.
1. Domains in Australia will see an up lift in investment, I predict we will see high prices been paid for .com.au domains by end users looking to get into the space.
2. .net.au domains will also pick up in popularity due to various benefits they hold – People who may not have a chance to gain investment in .com.au will take .net.au in 2012.
3. iPads will be even more popular as a device to view digital media, I can see huge numbers of sales in iPad devices – I think if you are into digital media you need to practise what you preach so owning a tablet is a good move in learning the technology, or if you want to get even further involved learn to design aps.
4. We will see a higher level of investment in Social Media – Social is hot at the moment but I feel in 2012 even more businesses will open the doors to social media.
5. Google+ will see a larger increase in users, Google will invest highly in the AU market with TV and offline campaigns to drive the non tech savvys users to Google+.
6. Mobile wallet will pick up in popularity – I can see mobile wallets and pay passes will become even more popular in 2012.
7. Higher use of internet on TV’s – I have been using YouTube on my TV for a while, I can see that internet based TV devices will really take off in 2012.
8. Large retailers will increase their investment into digital and push online stores.
9. Social will have a great influence on SEO in 2012 – it is evident that Google will really push the social media as a key metric of SEO, sure it has been this way for a while but I can see if even more in 2012.
10. We will see a new popular social media site come onto the scene 
SEO Question and Answer: Do you use a no-index and canonical tag on duplicate content pages?
Dec 21st
A recent question I have been seeing a bit is where people ask:
I have duplicant content issues on my website, do I add the canonical tag and also the no index tag?
My answer is the following:
No only add the Canonical tag you do not need to add the no index tags once a canonical tag has been implemented.
Google has also weighed into this question and provided similar advice here:
Rel Canonical and No index
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