Uh Oh! I know what you’re thinking; here comes another evangelical SEO nonsense post which is only written about theory and never actually put into practice…..well it’s not, stay with me! It will however, be a useful insight into leveraging your business aims with...
We are privileged to work with many different clients across many different sectors. One of the sectors we are growing in is CRO (Conversion Rate Optimisation). One of the major players in CRO is the usability of a website. If a user cannot successfully navigate your...
Excel is the staple data processing tool for any technical SEOer, and has been for a long time. While Google Docs may have stolen some of the limelight with their importXML and XPATH web scraping capabilities, if you’re doing any serious data processing then you’ll...
Whilst I’ve only been working ‘properly’ in an SEO agency for eight months or so, it’s clear from our very own Patrick Altoft that the last few months have caused the biggest upheaval in the search world for a long time. “…SEO has never been harder to do...
In the biggest study of its kind, we have found that there is strong correlation between the amount of tweets about a URL, and its Google ranking. Key Stats Study shows that URLs receive a significant boost in Google rankings when they are shared on Twitter The...
Whilst working on my first proper WordPress theme, I needed a nice simple breadcrumb plugin or function for my pages. As so often is the case, most of the existing plugins or functions were unnecessarily complicated and/or bloated; so I decided to write my own. If you...
We've been working on a few projects recently where it transpired that a significant amount of AdWords traffic was being miscounted as Google Organic which meant skewed figures and incorrect conclusions. The way Google Analytics tracks AdWords clicks is via the gclid...
This week's brand update has left a lot of people trying to figure out exactly why Google is boosting the ranking of certain top brands. We know they aren't boosting sites just because they are owned by a big brand - the boost comes from a number of authority-based...
Every month thousands of websites get hacked into and have hidden links inserted into the pages by people wanting their spam sites to rank highly in the search engines.
Today BlogStorm has released the Top 100 SEO Blogs rankings. This list was created by taking the top 1000 SEO blogs and calculating their traffic and link authority before reducing the list down to the Top 100 blogs. It will be updated every couple of days. Hopefully...