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...
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How search volume data may be used to determine brand authority
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...
How to use Google Alerts to find out if your site gets hacked
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.
Top 100 SEO Blogs
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...