Another post on the banning/de-indexing of Digg by Google, datadial popped up on an SEO group with the 1st instance of this news and many posts have followed, read my related posts for more opinions. Update 1800 20th March 2013 Matt Cutts reveals Google inadvertently de indexed Digg whilst tackling a spammer. So, let’s look at the scenario, Digg is…read more →
Thanks to a find from Martin MacDonald, Google are explicitly giving this warning in the SERP’s (meta desc placeholder): “A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more.” Here’s an example screenshot generated by this query: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayoast.com%2Fbugs%2F&pws=0
Ok did you just get the dreaded Google unnatural links warning message in Webmaster Tools? Oh no is my site to be penalised? Usually this would be the way, but no, even more confusion and panic after the latest spam messages received as Google’s head of web spam Matt Cutts explained on G+: If you received a message yesterday about…read more →
Leeds based Search Marketing Agency Blueclaw Media organised the ionSearch conference at The Carriageworks, Leeds on the 18th April 2012. The event saw some of the leading SEO professionals speak on a range of topics. A good blog post from a colleague covers a roundup of ionSearch 2012. The 2012 videos to the event have been released and here are…read more →
On Tuesday May 22, 2012 I spoke at Manchester Net Squared‘s monthly meetup to talk all things SEO. The evening over at the Manchester Digital Laboratory hosted by Steven Flower featured myself and Danny from PushOn talking about Pay-Per-Click & Google Grants for Non-Profits. Here is the run down of the talk and links to a few tools i mentioned. Agenda: Setting…read more →
As a kid i would visit my grandparents and every week be given a pack of Penguin biscuits so when I heard about Google’s latest webspam algorithm update being called ‘Penguin’ I thought ‘penguin’ seriously? The SEO world can be a quirky lot at the best of times so I thought this was a bit of a laugh, but no…read more →
Another month and another Google update from their Inside Search quality changes for March. Google have announced 50 new search updates, I will look at a few specifics in detail: As I eluded to in last months Google February 40 changes post, there was an interesting update was mentioned regarding link evaluation, now there is a little bit more detail and will…read more →
Google updated their Inside Search quality changes for February this week and announced 40 new updates, i will digest the list and feedback on specific SEO related changes. Firstly, an interesting update was mentioned regrinding link evaluation, as ever Google are quite vague on the update as to not unlock Pandora’s box with secrets of the algorithm, but interesting none the less as to what…read more →
Just Host, Just don’t use them! My full and frank review of Just Host and the problems and issues i have had.
After conducting some research for SEO companies as a project, it seems like there are some dodgy SEO’s out there that claim to be able to “guaranteed page one results in Google” Absolute bull! If you are approached by such a company/individual then as the title says, run a mile! You may hear things like: We have a relationship with…read more →