Google Page Speed Score – Optimising and speeding up my own site

While I’ve been playing about with the Page Speed plugin for Firefox for a while now, I never actually bothered to implement the changes suggested by it.

Well, with Google now counting page loading times as a signal in its ranking algorithm plus being particularly bored one night, I decided to action the suggestions made by Google Page Speed and see whether I could bump up my score from its 75/100 to 100/100. Below, I will walk through the changes I made and how I went about it. [Read more...]

Google’s ‘new look’ left-panel sidebar for refined search results

Last Wednesday saw the official worldwide roll out of the new Google sidebar – you may have already experienced the sidebar long before the roll out; mainly it was in the form of a ‘Show options’ link which would open up the sidebar. It seems that it will now be a permanent fixture on Google’s search results pages and no longer optional.*

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Google Wonder Wheel | Keyword Research Tool

I stumbled across this very interesting Google feature today and wanted to share – the Google Wonder Wheel. It seems to have been around for a while, but I’ve never used it or even heard of it until now! While it’s a fun way to search and allows users to find similar or related search results, it is also an extremely powerful tool that can provide us fellow SEO’s with invaluable information and insight when performing keyword research.

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SEO Doctor for Firefox

A colleague at work today recommended a new Firefox add-on called SEO Doctor for Firefox. It’s a really useful SEO tool to help both beginners and professionals alike in diagnosing SEO issues and understanding your competitors better. Sitting within Firefox’s status bar, it’s unobtrusive and really handy. You can find it here

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