What follows is a series (if I complete them) of SEO reviews of some suspected ranking factors. Doing it for my own needs, maybe others will find interesting. It won’t be very scientific and I will not share all the…

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Today Dan Vuksanovich from Website Traffic Increaser Guy shares some advice with us about howto evaluate an SEO provider. This article is designed to provide you with some clarity and guidance in sifting through potential SEO service providers to make an informed decision…

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I recently wanted to look at what a competitor site was up to regarding their online marketing, and decided to make use of SEMRush from SeoQuake. SEMRush provides both SEO and Adwords analysis of any website. As Interflora was in the news…

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It did not take long for Google to allow it back. SEOs predicted that it would return at some point, but it is surprising to see it come back so soon. This suggests that the ban could have been due to news…

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Bit of SEO News. I just logged in to Majestic SEO for the first time in ages. I used to use it a while back to look at back links to get some link build ideas for some sites. But…

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OK, on with the show. Last night I started writing up some notes from the Content Marketing Show 2012. Today I continue. As promised, I will keep this short and sweet. Stories That Scale by Anthony Mayfield Anthony works for…

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Today I skived off proper work to sit on a series of uncomfortable chairs at the inaugural Content Marketing Show, which was organised by the chap behind Brighton SEO (which I also went to this year, but could not find…

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Hot SEO news is that the unnatural link notifications that Google has been sending out to some webmasters may, possibly, maybe, ignored. This is what has caused a stir; Matt Cutts - 12:13 (edited)  -  Mobile  -  Public “If you received a message yesterday about unnatural links to…

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Since the whole Panda / Penguin thing (totally different, but get bundled together all the time now) people have started to ask some pretty dumb questions. The newest question I am seeing people ask (what people? provide references! No, can’t…

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Really, to be fair to Google, the title should read “when the application of Google web authorship goes wrong”. Maybe I will change the title. Maybe I will change the header! Maybe I will do nothing …. I will meant to…

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OK, I finally moved to a better platform for my newsletters. I was using PHPList, but was getting very annoyed with it as it took forever to send out emails and I had no idea if people were reading them!…

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A week or so ago, just before Link Love London 2012 (if you missed it, read these blog posts about Link Love 2012) a new website was launched. It is called ShitForLinks.com. Now, this may sound like a pretty terrible…

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From March 30, 2012, Facebook is making some pretty dramatic changes to fan pages. If you have been on Facebook recently, you’ll notice that normal profiles were transformed a few months ago into something called the timeline. Now fan pages…

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Ranking factors are again a hot topic for local SEO professionals because of Google’s recent announcements, called the Venice Update.  Because of this, SEO professionals will need to look at using what worked for their organic searches in ranking local…

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