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 getting results from that; they expect everything […]
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After five years, Google still doesn’t know how to rank images
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 check it out for […]
The antisocial network: Path texts my entire phonebook at 6am
Last night I went to bed blissfully unaware of the catastrophic faux pas I made earlier in the day – I signed up to Path, the social network/private messaging service. For anybody who hasn’t used it before, Path was launched in 2010 and allows users to share photos and messages with a “high-quality” network built […]
Two years of Panda: why voucher & car classified sites were so badly affected
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 start of Google using artificial intelligence […]
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