Google Exact Match Domain (EMD) Penalty or Update – First Look

I guess the latest Google update penalty shouldn’t have been a surprise for many of us, we’ve all known that exact match domains have had extra punching weight when it comes to rankings in Google for some time now. For…

Google Authorship with NEW Smaller Images

I came across a feature in the UK search results for “seo” whereby it appears an unusual size of the Google Authorship tag. You can see the result below: At first I thought I was logged in and this was…

Is Google Removing Rich Snippet Stars from SEO?

For a few years now rich snippets have provided Google and webmaster’s a way of portraying additional information about websites in the search engine results. These have grown from including reviews (displayed as shiny yellow stars) to additional information such…