Archive for the ‘Google Organic Listings’ Category

The BlackHatters came across something we’d not seen before in the Google SERP’s yesterday. The SEO natural listings were encroaching over PPC ads… What’s all that about then? Google maps directions are getting way too big for their own boots and have started to encroach on the www-po-ferries-uk.co.uk (no, your not getting a link ) [...]

A slight side step from our usual PPC related posts, but the BlackHatters were amused the other day when we saw Google’s natural ranking algorthm deliver the most useless SERP we have seen in a longtime. We did a search for the term ‘new samsung phone’ (yeah, we are searching at for Samsung stuff at [...]

Another week…another change to Google’s algorithm! As reported last week in many of the PPC blogs Google have announced that they are not rewarding ‘nicer’ brands with better rankings in the natural search results. Understandable that Google wants to reward sites that offer good user experience and get good customer reviews. There is the case [...]

The BlackHatters were interested to see the latest Google Innovation that they’d kept pretty quiet and under the radar which is Google ‘Definition in Context.’ We’ve seen this appear on the natural term when you Google the term ‘what is wikipedia’ and you’ll see the ‘definition in context’ option come up as in the ad [...]

Google have been busy today! As we reported on earlier, Google have brought in ‘related to’ ad’s on branded keywords (see Google ‘Related to’ Ad’s appearing on Brand terms…we feel another lawsuit against Google coming on!) However, we have also seen big updates in Google’s Sitelinks today as well. Firstly, they have allowed sitelinks to [...]