Google’s Rich Snippet Testing Tool

It is important to ensure that you have your website setup correctly for Google and you can use Google’s Rich Snippet Testing Tool to confirm your website details:-

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

YouTube Video Controls

If you are using YouTube and do not wish to show other videos afterwards then you can use the command to prevent showing suggested videos when the video finishes.

To do this you simply add “?rel=0” at the end of the URL for the YouTube video, example:-

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Drop Down Menu Drops Behind YouTube video

This is something on our website we have to deal with and to make the drop down menu sit on top of the video you can use the command “?wmode=transparent”.

An example of this would be :-

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Google algorithm changes for 2013

Chameleon web services have been working hard to find out what Google are doing next in the Google algorithm changes for 2013. We have teamed up with Emmett Brown better known as Doc Brown to use his time machine to see what it is Google are planning.

Back To The Future - Understanding What Google Will Do Next In The Algorithm Changes

There has been Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III and now Back From The Future with Chameleon.

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On-Page Optimisation Tool

Every website need on-page optimisation and using our FREE tool you can check out a web page and you may be shocked by what you see.

We have had feedback from users that had websites ranking before the Penguin and Panda updates and when they have used our tool it is clear to see that the reason is the over optimisation of specific keywords.

After making simple changes the websites have come back to ranking in high positions and often higher than previously.

On-Page Optimisation Tool

To use our free SEO tool you simply enter the website URL and let the tool do the rest. Go to:- seo-website-checker

Essential SEO

We get asked frequnetly if SEO is important and our reply is that “SEO is essential” if you have an online business.

Search engine optimisation carried out correctly will give Google the opporunity to find the information they need in way that makes Google like your website more than a competitor.

A good way to understand how essential SEO is to your online business you can watch this video by Matt Cutts. In this video Matt explains how Google ranks a website using a unique evaluation process. The crawling that Google does and the analysis of a website is the starting point and how crawling is carried out over a long period of time.

This video helps explain the Google dance and also explain how Google crawls and updates more and more data today than they did before.

The frequencies and priorities of crawls and indexing is a very important part of the Google search and the filtering processes within the Google indexed databases.

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Essential SEO

An expert SEO company will help Google find all the data that is required to help you get your website into Google search results for the keywords that you want to be found under. This is an essential part of your online business and SEO works to improve the rankings simply by helping Google find the details it needs.

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