Social media tracking like Facebook in Google Analytics

Google Analytics does not enable social tracking by default (apart from +1 social interaction). It is however relatively easy to enable this functionality and benefit from these statistic information.

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New sitelinks layout in Google

Google released another update to their search engine. This time it's the sitelinks section. Previously, it was a list of sitelinks right under webpage link. Now, below each sitelink there is also a description. It should help users to find the right page faster. Disadvantage is that it takes so much space and can have a negative effect on other search results pushing them down.

More info at:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/08/introducing-new-and-improved-sitelinks.html

The Essential Guide to Bing Webmaster Tools

Very interesting article about Bing’s Webmaster Tools. It describes how to use this tool and how it can help when developing websites.
Article available at http://www.thedevweb.com/2011/08/03/the-essential-guide-to-bing-webmaster-tools/

New webmaster tutorial videos

Google released another video tutorial. This time it describes limits that are set for 301 redirects. More information at

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-webmaster-tutorial-videos.html

Can search volume boost Google Ranking?

This interesting topic has been tested by Rand Fishkin. His goal was to check if search volume and clicks could move the rankings for a particular site.

Methodology and results are at
An Experiment in Boosting Google Rankings w/ Search Volume

Webspam - new tool by Google

Google released an updated form to report webspam - sites that violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and try to trick Google into ranking them highly. It's aiming to help Google maintain the quality of their search results.

More information:  A new, improved form for reporting webspam

A new way of submitting URLs to Google

Seems like Google is listening to it's users. This time Webmaster Tools received additional and very useful functionality - ability to submit URLs directly from Fetch as Googlebot page.

I have used this function today and it's such a useful feature. It helps a lot if a website is often updated - i.e. when adding new pages. More to read a:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/08/submit-urls-to-google-with-fetch-as.html

25 Million Visitors of Google+

This week comScore released findings on Google+’s monumental surge to 25 million unique global visitors. Launched just over a month ago, Google+ has become the fastest social networking service to reach 25 million unique visitors.

http://searchengineland.com/behind-the-numbers-of-googles-monumental-rise-to-25-million-unique-visitor-88076

Digital Amber receives PR 2

"Uncle Google" finally decided to rate our page at http://www.digitalamber.co.uk. We have been given a brand new shiny Page Rank 2. it is a great starting point and a recognition of our interesting offer!

It is surely a positive effect of our white hat seo steps we took to promote our website.

Precise Cleaning update

Precise Cleaning webpage has been updated recently - http://www.precisecleaning.co.uk.

This residential and commercial cleaning company is a  a member of the British Cleaners Association.

4 Small Business IT Services are now online

We have launched a new web site for "4 Small Business IT Solutions". Company is providing full range of IT support services and consultancy. Their motto is:

"A good IT infrastructure – which is sound and reliable - WILL give you the competitive edge. Computer downtime affects the bottom line."

Their website is available at www.for-small-business-it.co.u​k.