Around a week ago I was checking the results for a local restaurant that I recently started working with and I noticed that they had moved up the search engine result pages at a faster than expected pace.I thought this was extremely strange, especially with it being a brand new domain so I decided to…
It appears that, at this moment in time, the majority of keyword data has been stripped out as Google are now redirecting most users to the HTTPS version of Google.com, Google.co.uk and just about every other Google search URL that I’ve tested. I have checked 10 sites that I work on, and Google Analytics is…
Why we need Web Marketing School Around 3 years ago when I was working in engineering recruitment I decided that I would like a career change and started exploring my options. I never had much in the way of official qualifications as I left school at a young age and entered the world of work.…
In this article, I’m going to reveal exactly how I was first able to write for The Guardian and how I managed to get some backlinks too. This takes a little bit of effort… First of all, I would like to say that if you are not willing to put in some time and a…
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I can do those things. Because I’m not a hero, not like John Mu. I nuked those sites. That’s what I can be.” Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na… MATTMAN!
What are these changes you speak of? It appears that Google are either running a test or have recently made a change on how they present page titles and are now using colons as page title separators. Everyone SEO is aware that Google treat hyphens and pipes as keyword separators, and it now appears that…
Facebook Promoted Personal Posts With the introduction of promoted posts for personal Facebook profiles you can now pay to be popular. If you are aware of the Facebook’s Edgerank algorithm you will understand that Facebook filters out content that it believes is irrelevant to you. This was causing problems for business pages as content wasn’t reaching as…
Negative SEO I have recently written an article that was featured on The Guardian news site about the dangers of negative SEO practices. Negative SEO is a real problem for businesses which could potentially eradicate your site from the search engine results pages. Disavow Tool At the time of writing the article, there wasn’t really…
I previously did that a post that mentioned what a great job TripAdvisor was doing at getting a massive amount of multiple listings on the search engine results pages but Google have now put a stop to this with it recent update. Matt mentioned on Twitter that Google have rolled out a small algorithm change…
You hate Pandas, you hate Penguins, what about Parrots? Sit with a group of SEOs for long enough and the subject of backlinks will arise and someone will inevitably pipe up and say something like ‘it’s all about creating great quality content that people want to link to and share and that’s how you get…