Google have announced a new infrastructure for their search engine codenamed "Caffeine". They are inviting developers and power users to help test out the new infrastructure which will allow them to "push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions".
 

Here's a collection of 44 Top SEO Blogs that we regularly visit for some great tips and tricks for Search Engine Optimisation.
 

Google appear to be testing out a new search page that doesn't give the user the option to perform a search local to their home country. It also seemed to be only testing this out with Google Chrome and, as far as we can tell, it doesn't appear to have been documented anywhere.
 

Search engines seem to be rapidly expanding the amount of local content that is shown when users initiate a search with implicit local information in that search. Taking this knowledge you'll realise that there is a huge opportunity for small local businesses to get their services noticed.
 

Usually, when we are looking to promote our keywords and phrases, we choose them based on what we think the user will be searching for. With the Google Suggest tool, searches are starting to appear differently to how they used to.
 

Microsoft have launched a free, IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit that allows you to check your websites for any potential errors and problems that may hinder your search engine rankings. Here's a brief look at this application and how you can use it to help you.
 

When monitoring your own site and the sites you build for clients, it's important to make sure you receive automated reports to help highlight how your sites are responding to various keywords. Exact Factor is a free web based service that will help you do this and here's a brief overview of what you can use them for.
 

Search Engines are often reported to penalise you for having duplicate content on your web pages. This can be a problem especially when using dynamic parameters in your URL's as your rankings can be negatively affected if you don't do something about it. This is wherethe "Canonical" tag comes in to help.
 

There are lots of mistakes that people make in web design, especially when it comes to usability. If you make something "hard to do" or "hard to find" then your visitors will usually make the decision fairly instantly that they don't like your site.
 

When you create a new website, one of the first and biggest choices you will have to make is to pick a domain name. This isn't actually as easy as it sounds as what you choose could have a major impact on how successful your site becomes.
 

Here's a list of 5 SEO Tips that we've come up with based on some of the things we have done recently for our customers. They aren't in any particular order, and we're obviously not saying that these are a definitive list of SEO tips, but they are generally just good practice that will eventually help your search engine rankings.
 

I've seen quite a few new start up websites sitting around, hoping that they'll appear in Google soon and start to get some good rankings. Why the wait though? Get listed now, today!
 

Google have been generating sitelinks for websites for a while now, but it seems last week they added a new feature where sitelinks appear in one line underneath the website listing.