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 →
So it begins, Google to kill off organic data to webmasters for logged in users, I won’t re-hash and rant as there are plenty of useful posts out there. I will provide a quick summary though, the data is still there but Google only offering aggregated data through Webmaster Tools but as mentioned by Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Roundtable, it’s…read more →
As a business owner with a website, one of the most important things to consider is visibility. SEO also known as search engine optimisation, is a daunting project if not approached correctly. There are many ways to tackle SEO such as content creation, link building, keyword research and many more. The danger of doing SEO without any prior knowledge can…read more →
Quick post, it has been announced that a Google algorithm update is to happen in the US only for now but the recent Chrome block sites extension has helped identify 84% of blocked sites match in the algo. What does this mean? Potentially for UK SERPS in the future sites that may be marked as link selling or spam sites…read more →
As the Operations Manager for the SME division of one of the UK’s leading digital marketing agencies i thought i would share my thoughts of why outsourcing SEO as a small business is key. You can find my blog post on small business seo over at the Latitude blog. Key points I covered off include: 1 Price 2 Resource 3…read more →
Latest webmaster video from Matt Cutts explains that the site:domain search only shows 3 significant digits or pages indexed, for example if your site: query returns over a thousand pages then only the 1st 3 are indicative of the actual number. Watch the video: Ciao for now
A new algorithmic change has been implemented by Google, affectionately know as the May Day update as it happened around 1st May 2010. Matt Cutts explains that the change is not temporary and the update is looking to improve the quality of the SERP’s that is effecting long tail terms opposed to the head of searches. Cutts explains that this update is independent to…read more →
Has anyone noticed that the product results in Google have been showing images and not directly linkg through to the site? A post from the Head of SEO at Latitude, Andy Heaps posted back in December about how Latitude joke about Google’s money making levers – “if profits are down or shareholders unhappy they pick a money generating lever and…read more →
Duplicate Content Issues The 3 major search engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, have just announced a new tag that can tell the search engines which URL it should have for the current page. The issue websites have is duplicate content, the same content is indexed under different URL’s. This is an issue SEO’s have been trying to solve for a…read more →
One of my favourite SEO and WordPress blogs is by Joost de Valk, and on the 5th january ’09 a brilliant guest post by Andre Scholten explains how a Google Analytics filter can enable you to track your Google rankings. So here is the post: Track SEO rankings? Well, you can’t specifically track the exact position of the keyword that…read more →