Web Design & SEO Blog

Beleaguered social networking site Myspace has lost a devastating 50 million users since February 2010, according to figures released this week. It’s the latest in a series of misfortunes for what used to be the web’s top social networking site. Figures released by comScore Media Metrix, the digital industry’s audience measurement tool, show that Myspace also lost 10 million unique visitors between January and February this year. [Read On]

Following recent crackdowns on content farms, Google has now turned its attention to keywords in domain names. Matt Cutts, head of Google’s webspam team, has released a YouTube video in which he suggests that websites who use keywords in their domain names - usually as part of a link building strategy - might be in for a bumpy ride all the way down the SERPs. [Read On]

Ofcom is going to set strict regulations on the amount of 4G spectrum that mobile operators can buy in its 2012 auction. The regulator’s actions will protect smaller operators and ensure competition as fast mobile internet access increases over the next couple of years. At least four operators are expected to grab their share of the spectrum. [Read On]

Mobile search has just entered its next phase thanks to the launch of Google Search, Google’s revamped and hugely important new version of its Google Mobile iPhone app. [Read On]

Paid mobile search is a very new concept here in the UK, but our friends ‘across the pond’ have already started making serious investment in this area. A report released last week from banking and investment firm Macquarie Group shows that nearly five per cent of paid search spending in the United States is now allocated to paid mobile search. Assuming this growth continues at the same rate, that figure will be 10 per cent by the end of the year. [Read On]

Google has made a major upheaval to its search algorithm which will affect 11.8% of queries, as the company decisively acts against 'content farms' and other so-called low quality websites that it has decided are manipulating SEO tactics to secure higher-than-deserved rankings in the search engine results pages (SERPs). [Read On]

Light has been shed on the closer mechanics of mobile SEO after Google recently issued a blog piece about how mobile websites can best interact with search engine crawlers. [Read On]