How to Remove Date From Meta Descriptions in WordPress

How to Remove Date From Meta Descriptions in WordPress

Since I’ve changed my wordpress theme, I noticed that dates were being added in front of my meta descriptions in Google Search engine results page. Obviously, I first checked my source code as I thought it was my mistake, although all descriptions have been optimised correctly. I also thought that maybe those descriptions were too short/ long – that was [...]

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Google Instant Preview- Influence on User and Its Optimisation

Google Instant Preview- Influence on User and Its Optimisation

A few days ago, Google introduced a new feature in Search Engine Result Page, called Instant Preview, which allows users to see what a website looks like before committing to click through to the website. Google Instant Preview -Influence on User Since a few days, the links listed in search engine result page display with a small magnifying glass icon. [...]

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Link Building Techniques – a Fresh Look

Link Building Techniques – a Fresh Look

Since inbound links became some of the most important Google ranking factors, many companies offering link-building services have been created online. Unfortunately, because of the huge demand for link building, the quality of many of those services seem to be giving way to quantity. As many clients do not understand how Google rank their pages, the lack of results in [...]

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Will SEO, the online black magic, die eventually?

Will SEO, the online black magic, die eventually?

There were always controversies and different opinions about Search Engine optimisation, mostly amongst people who had no idea about SEO itself. However, I was completely surprised (not to say shocked) with an article that appeared in Belfast Magazine, just a few months ago. The article, with its “sophisticated” title, “Angelina Jolie, Britney and Beyonce nude, dirty tricks and the changing [...]

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Baidu vs. Google. How Baidu kicked out Google from China.

Baidu vs. Google. How Baidu kicked out Google from China.

As we all know, China’s most popular search engine isn’t Google, it’s Baidu. Baidu was created in 2000 and at the beginning of 2010 it has about two-thirds of the Chinese market. It claims to be the most advanced Chinese-language search engine. Let’s look at some of the factors that contributed to Google’s failure in China (apart from well-known legal [...]

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Posterous vs. WordPress- Battle of Two Titans. Pros and Cons.

Posterous vs. WordPress- Battle of Two Titans. Pros and Cons.

Having a blog on Posterous (for about a year now) and being an exceptional fan of WordPress at the same time, i decided to write a very short comparison, or actually pros and cons of using both of them. WordPress has been an amazing tool for many years and its developers make a great job making it even better from [...]

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