Google Phantom 3 Update – How does it affect ecommerce SEO?

Google Phantom 3 : Less Phantom like or more mystery for ecommerce SEO? [box type=”info”] Update (27th January 2016): Google’s core algorithm was updated on the 12th January 2016, to encompass real time Google Panda which targets thin/poor quality content. It has been suggested within SEO circles that this could be heavily related to the […]

Why blog designs are commonly pretty gross

 The a**e end of a development process Blog designs can come either as an after thought months or years after a web design project or at the end of the mentally draining process of website rebuild/redesign. For bigger sites, you may have a separate blog set up to the ‘main site’.   Also, ecommerce webmasters […]

2014 Guide to SEO titles and descriptions

How to do titles and descriptions post penguin and hummingbird A clear head is required when writing meta titles & descriptions – clear from the old world of search engine manipulation and clear as to why titles & descriptions are as important as ever…just for slightly different reasons. Social media uses meta data Title and descriptions […]

How to link your Adwords & Webmaster Tools

On the quiet, I am a bit of a multi-channel attribution nerd. It simply rocks my loser geek world. So when Google Adwords introduced linkage between SEO and PPC reporting to show how the two affect each other you can imagine my glee. What I like about this is that its *dead simple* to do. […]

How to link your Adwords & Webmaster Tools

On the quiet, I am a bit of a multi-channel attribution nerd. It simply rocks my loser geek world. So when Google Adwords introduced linkage between SEO and PPC reporting to show how the two affect each other you can imagine my glee. What I like about this is that its *dead simple* to do. […]

G+ progress in the UK

The digital development talk is currently focused on G+ and Google Plus Search Your World. However, in the UK is this a commercial viable thing to focus lots of energy on? In 2011, Google and Bing made it publicly known that social signals would influence / multiply search engine rankings. Simplistically, G+ like any other […]

SEO link builders New Years Resolutions

After yesterday’s post on Google’s webspam antics, I think it is fair to say that the paid links fear factor for businesses, Digital Marketing Managers, SEOs and SEO agencies has been well refreshed.  So what next? Abandon link building and concentrate on building your website so that it is so good that it will generate […]

The "This Post is Sponsored By Google" debarcle

January 2012 – a time for smart a$$ digital experts to make their predictions of what lies ahead in this constantly changing landscape. We all assume that Facebook, Google and Twitter all know what they’re doing in guiding the major direction of digital innovation. However, who could have predicted that Google Chrome would have been […]

The “This Post is Sponsored By Google” debarcle

January 2012 – a time for smart a$$ digital experts to make their predictions of what lies ahead in this constantly changing landscape. We all assume that Facebook, Google and Twitter all know what they’re doing in guiding the major direction of digital innovation. However, who could have predicted that Google Chrome would have been […]

Offsite SEO – what you need to know

Understanding offsite SEO is the area of ambiguity for marketing professionals. Coupled with technical elements of SEO, there is the whole black art perception. This post is all about what you need to know when getting link building assistance and the right way to view link building development. Generating high volumes of low quality links […]

Get visible with Schema

On the 2nd June 2011, Google, Bing and Yahoo! announced the introduction of a new tagging standard named Schema.org. As the major search engine results pages (Google in particular) are becoming more diverse, Schema is the new agreed universal method of improving how sites appear by structuring website data with the application of tagging code. […]

A billion comments links for 10 bucks? Don't do it!

Google anything to do with SEO link building and you will be offered so many different desperate attempts to spam the search engine results pages (SERPS). Links within comments areas is an area of SEO that if done in the nature of good blogging (i.e. your anchor text isn’t ‘Viagra’ and you don’t go hunting […]