We've talked before about link devaluation and from what we can see the pattern is still going strong five months later. Pretty much every week since the end of November, Google has devalued large numbers of links of one type or another resulting in brands losing...
From time to time, members of the SEO community will publicly ask: “does X tactic still work?” Cue people from all ends of the colour spectrum (that’s black to white) throwing their hat into the ring and proclaiming that Google has no right to do this; they’re still...
As a Data Analyst with my own blog; naturally, I'm always intrigued to check out some of the keywords that bring people to my site. Focusing on video games, my blog attracts some pretty random keywords, take a look at this one I found the other day: So, I decided to...
It’s been just over two years now since Panda was unleashed on the UK and it seems that a lot of sites are still struggling to figure out how to recover from the effects of what is perhaps the most important algorithm Google has ever developed. Panda heralded the...
Google has always made it hard to see link data. First they made the link: query intentionally vague and then when they showed link data in Webmaster Tools it only showed the first 1,000 domains. This was fine when we all just wanted to see our best links but when...
The first week of 2013 has been a busy one for us; it’s brought a new office in London, a variety of exciting new projects and clients and for me, finally making use of a site I spend an increasing amount of time on – SlideShare. A presentation I created on how to...
A lot of criticism has come Google’s way from artists such as Tinie Tempah, who claim that search-engines aren’t doing enough to combat online music piracy. Enter a search term like “tinie tempah MP3” and your SERP will look something like this: Tinie was...
Companies in the UK are going into administration on a daily basis here in the UK and very little attention is being paid to the websites during the administration process. In most cases the website is taken over by the administrators and the staff who have been...
Scepticism has been coursing through the veins of SEOs everywhere since the inception of Google’s spam-beating disavow tool. There was, needless to say, controversy aplenty upon its launch, with the most prominent question unsurprisingly being: does it actually work?...
Google has finally announced that they are launching a tool to allow websites to disavow any bad links to their site that might be causing a penalty. The tool is fantastic news for sites that have been struggling to recover from a penalty using the link removal...