Announced earlier in the year, Google stated that they were looking to improve their mobile results in a new upcoming update that would focus on the mobile friendliness of websites. Based on a comment from a Google employee it is speculated that the update will have a bigger impact on related search results than we…
With 1 billion users, and 23% of these users checking Facebook 5 times a day or more, it is an excellent platform to advertise on. Facebook have released an infographic showing some interesting facts about their platform.
Recently Google has been getting a lot of flack for the quality of the SERPs in the UK. This included a post by Dave Naylor regarding the results that were shown for “Tennis Court Hire”. At the time of Dave’s post the top 6 posts were showing Australian sites, however at the moment these sites…
Big Mouth Media appear to be having a few issues as of late. A few days ago Site Visibility reported about some ranking issues that may indicate a penalty that has been applied to the BMM homepage which caused the homepage to be completely de-indexed. However in BMMs defence it appears that it is less…
Recently I have been going through some of the tools on SEOmoz to see if there is anything new I have been missing out on, and I came across 2 little gems. These have probably been available to the public for a while I just haven’t used them but under their Labs tools there is:…
The BBC tech show Click bought a botnet to show how at risk we are for cyber crimes. The botnet consists of 22,000 hijacked PCs around the world and was purchased over the net through a chat room. The Click team will show how effective spamming can be done with a botnet already of…
Over the last few months I have been noticing quite a lot of websites that make some fundamental errors. One of the ones that keep cropping up is failing to make a website resolve on the non www. version. I just went to blackpool.gov.uk to try and pay our rates bill and was greeted with…
One of the common issues we, and SEOs in general, face when proposing work to potential clients and also for existing clients is that they want results immediately or in the case of existing clients they become impatient and want to know why a site is ranking after X months. It is an understandable problem,…
URL canonicalization is a common technique employed by SEOs to resolve duplicate content issues associated with having the same page display for multiple versions of the URL. The main issues occur when a websites homepage resolves on up to 4 different URLs such as example.com/ www.example.com/ example.com/index.php www.example.com/index.php The problem shows 4 different URLs to…
One of the biggest problems we face as an SEO company is a client having unrealistic expectations about what SEO can achieve. There are a lot of cases where it feels like clients seem to think SEOs have a direct line to Google and when they pay for work done we will get on the…