Google published its State of Website Security in 2016 today, reporting that there was a 32 percent increase in the number of hacked sites in 2016 compared to 2015. Google added that it doesn’t expect the trend to slow down anytime soon. Google said that these hackers are getting even “more aggressive,” and at the…
The SEO industry has been watching an unconfirmed Google ranking update that seems to target more of the link quality aspects of the overall algorithm. A large amount of the chatter regarding this update comes from Black Hat communities which would suggest that it is focussing on filtering out spammy results due to poor quality…
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…
Google have finally launched the long anticipated Google Drive, a cloud storage / sync solution to rival (and possibly beat) services such as Drop Box, Sugar Sync, and Sky Drive. Google has fully incorporated Google Drive into its core services and has merged Google Docs with it, meaning any file that is uploaded and in…
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…
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…
North South Media have been doing an SEO league table over the past few months based on the rankings each company achieves within the search engines. As part of our on going SEO on our own site we have gradually moved up in the table and finally been ranked at No 1 for the UK…
So there has been a lot of mention about linkbait over the past few months. Some SEOs seem to treat it as the be all and end all when it comes to promoting a site. While I have no doubt it can be superb for a promoting a site by generating incoming links and, in…
Ok it has been a long day and I am tired so I may be chatting rubbish, however I was just checking some stats for some clients when I did a search for the term liquidation. The number of results it returned was 3,280,000, I took a screen print of it incase I am actually…
As I am sure you are aware a large number of websites have seen a significant drop in PageRank including some big players such as: WashingtonPost.com Forbes.com Blog Herald ProBlogger.net CopyBlogger Engadget StatCounter SearchengineJournal This drop also appears to of hit all the SEO companies on the NSM Top SEO Company League with every SEO…