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AFNIC Has Launched IDN Registrations
We are pleased to know that AFNIC has launched IDN registrations, allowing people and entities to register domain names with characters such as é, ç, ê, or the German ß. If you own a domain name registered under one of the following extensions...
April 2012 – SEO Update
Local Search Listings Come Up Trumps According to a recent study conducted local search listings provide the most relevant search results irrespective of medium. The study, conducted by comScore, entailed that local search listings now serve as an...
SEO News From Orchid Box Italian Office
Last Monday I spent a day in Orchid Box Italian office talking to my fellow continental SEOs Danilo and Gennaro. Business is going well over in Italy despite the crippling recession and high tax rates. Indeed Italian taxation is now the 3rd...
Bing is Going to Start Charging for the API
Bad news for all the SEO using Bing API, they are going to stop the FREE API and start charging for it. It is a sad news as Bing API was the only FREE alternative to google scarping. We have used it partially on our SEO software tool to get...
Samantha Brick & The Mail Online – Using Outrage For Link Building
Anyone casting half an eye on the Twitto-Blogosphere over the last 48 hours cannot have failed to have heard the name "Samantha Brick". The journalist, writing for the Mail Online, managed to cause worldwide consternation and confusion by writing...
Bulk Domain Checker Tool By Outreachr
Orchid Box are proud to announce the launch of a brand new SEO tool in partnership with social outreachr tool Outreachr. The tool, called the Bulk Domain Checker, allows you to grab contact details, SEO metrics and a range of other handy...
iRank SEO Expands Keyword Tracking to New Countries in Version 2.0
iPhone users can enjoy being updated by personalised results for the news, the weather, and now, their SEO ranking. Orchidbox have launched version 2.0 of their iRank SEO app, which lets iPhone users easily track their keyword rankings via simple...
Domain Authority – All You Need to Know
Domain Authority is a metric created by the brainboxes over at SEOmoz essentially to try and create a new, more reflective score on how likely a domain is going to be able to rank in Google's search results. It's a score that here at Orchid Box...
Google Expands Sitemaps on Google Webmaster Tools
Last week Google announced the launch of their new sitemaps features within Google Webmaster Tools. Let's take a look at the new features: First and foremost, the visual changes to the area are clear. Data such as indexation and submitted URLs is...
Google Social Share Lets You Start Conversations From Your Search Results
Every day of early 2012 seems to be a new chapter in the saga of Google’s social search vs. the rest of the social media world. Here’s a summary of what’s happened in the last week or so: Will Social Share make Plusers of us all? Only a couple of...
10 Tips For Google Analytics First-Timers
Google kicked off 2012 with some improvements to its free-to-use analytics platform. We’ve put together a list of tips that beginners and intermediate users could use to improve their website and ecommerce. Here are new features to help you pick...
List of Google Websites With Country Codes
I had to look for this data today and it wasn't very easy. I want to share with you my findings: Google Search Engine URL Country Served International Country Code https://www.Google.com USA US https://www.google.co.jp Japan JP...
Do a Barrel Roll in Google
Google is the most powerful search engine in the world, it earns billions of dollars per year, it has revolutionised the web and yet still astonishes everybody. We are not talking about a new technology that will help to solve all the global...
Google Finally Indexes Javascript & Ajax
Much to the chagrin of webmasters, developers and SEOs alike, Google have never been very good at coping with Ajax or Javascript content on websites and opt never to index their content. This means a wealth of comment plugins and more technical...
Steve: The Man Who Created the Apple of Eden
Steve Jobs is gone, and with him all the genius of a brilliant manager. He was not only a revolutionary businessman, he was a man who had always believed in a dream, looking forward to the obstacles and the walls that envious people had tried to...
Kate Middleton Image Search Gone Crazy the Day Before the Wedding
SecretSalons.com, an Orchid Box website, has seen a surge of queries for Kate Middleton coming from Google Images. This is a screenshot from Google Webmaster tools. Tip: Image search is a great opportunity to drive traffic to your site. You...
We Love the New Lady.co.uk New Look
Lady.co.uk has decided to celebrate the royal wedding in style. Check out a picture taken from my iPhone: ABOUT THE LADY In continuous publication since 1885 and widely respected as England's longest running weekly magazine for women, The Lady is...
Google Tsunami Alert
As the news of the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Japan today, sending two tsunamis into the city of Sendai (some reports claim one was a 30ft tsunami), Google has been actively alerting its users to the dangers in the Pacific....
UK Snow and an SEO Traffic Drop | Orchid Box Blog
I have been working in the industry for over 5 years and I always find it interesting to study patterns in traffic for our own websites and our clients' . As you may well know, we have had 2 terrible (or fantastic, depending on how you look at it)...
Google Boss Eric Schmidt Warns Against the Use of Social Media
Google boss Eric Schmidt has announced a warning against the use of social media, and the consequences of society having so much data online. Now I don’t mean to be cynical but does anyone else smell irony in the air? The man who is behind the...
Social Media Threatens Economic Recovery as Worker’s Productivity Falls
Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are notoriously addictive, with some people admitting to spending at least an hour a day on the social media sites. According to a recent poll by myjobgroup.co.uk around 2million of the UK’s 34...
Orchid Field Blog Post – Why You Need Monitoring Tools
Looks familiar? We can all be the victims of treachery sometimes, but in all my years I have never experienced anything like this. The Orchid Box blog has been the victim of a horrendous crime, as a mean spammy content thief has stolen one of our...
Are There Cracks in Google’s Monopoly Beginning to Appear?
This week a court ruling in Italy marked a watershed in Internet communications law, and perhaps a worrying step in online privacy rules, as three Google executives were prosecuted of violating privacy and given six month suspended sentences....
How to Submit a Site to Cuil Search Engine
Here at Orchid Box we love small search engines as well as the big ones like Google and Bing. If you want to submit your site to cuil.com search engine "biggest search engine on the planet" please go to this page:...
Google Recommends Avoidance of the Plus Sign in Your URLS
Interesting little piece of advice here for you - it has come to our attention at Orchid Box that Google are now recommending the avoidance of the "plus" sign in - that is to say "+" - in URLs. Generally speaking, the plus sign is used as...
Canonical Tag, 301 Redirects? Avoiding Duplicate Content and Multiple Site Issues
Google recently posted a useful video about Duplicate Content and Multiple Site issues, a talk which brought up some very interesting points to consider for many webmasters. It is regularly told by both us and other SEOs around the globe (not...
Second Level Domain Names in the UK and SEO
Some of our clients have asked us to advise them on domain names. There are quite a few second level domain names in the UK. The easiest choice is to get a co.uk, but sometimes you might be able to get very powerful domain extensions. If you don't...
Google Search – Is Google Becoming a Monopoly?
The story of Google is one of growth, gross and global domination. They have long prided themselves as a company of bringing the fairest and most accurate search results in the world, their algorithms and innovations bringing about the very best...
.Htaccess and 301 Redirects and Rewrite – SEO Secrets to Indexation
WHAT IS 301 REDIRECT? 301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web site. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently". After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed...
From Garage Google to Godly Google – Humble Web Beginnings
Being a startup company ourselves, Orchid Box understand our clients' needs when they have to work within tight and constrained budgets and timings. And every company has to start somewhere, which, in the case of the web, more often than not means...
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Word Extraction To Get Assured Keyword Strength
Here at Orchid Box, we’re always looking for the best keyword extraction techniques. Finding strong keywords for your content can be time consuming and full of trial and error. Having come across this fantastic keyword extractor we’re confident...
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