In April, Stephen Kenwright wrote this post about Path spamming his phone contacts. On the first day his post drove 60,000 visitors to the Branded3 site. That's around 20-30x our usual daily traffic, just to one page. Our Google Analytics graph for April/May looks...
Have you ever seen this message in your Google Webmaster Tools? If you have, you'll know about the panic that ensues. Maybe you know you've done some link-building in the past that's outside of Google's guidelines, or perhaps you hired an SEO firm which wasn't honest...
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...
