A quiet Friday morning….drinking coffee, reading the news, nothing unusual here. I remember that I need to buy socks. Good quality socks, the kind that don’t hole easily. I Google … Read more →
UPDATE FOR 2017! Thrive Content Builder has now been updated to become Thrive Architect. And it’s even better than the first version. Read my full review here. Thrive Content Builder is … Read more →
A few months ago I wrote a post about how easy it is to confuse the different search engine news sites (Moz not withstanding). Is it possible that the lack … Read more →
“Kim Kardashian is nothing without Facebook”. A bold statement that I’m happy to put my name to thanks to data pulled from BuzzSumo today. For those of you in the … Read more →
Sponsored media posts are nothing new. Native Advertising – to give the practice its correct title – has been around for centuries. From its beginnings as newspaper advertorials (which are … Read more →
In May 2014, after a controversial ruling in Spain, EU law dictated that residents have the “right to be forgotten” by Google and other search engines. In simple terms, this … Read more →
Profoundry, aka Col Skinner, revealed on Twitter today a shocking link network in action. #SEO FAIL! Stumbled across a link network made by @sozodesign on 64 of their client sites: … Read more →
On June 24th 2014 Google was granted a patent for a trust-based recommendation system that’s been labelled as the trust button patent. This new system adds to the company’s earlier patent … Read more →
Welcome to Part 1 of The Big Spam Project. In this first case study, I analyse Sky’s linking practices and reveal how they rank for a high-competition keyword (“Fantasy Football”) … Read more →
Link farms, keyword stuffing, exact-match anchors – sounds like a list of “what not to do in SEO 2014”, right? Contrary to what we’re led to believe by Google and … Read more →