Can webmasters bear yet another Google update… Just when you thought it was safe to playfully cavort amongst the bamboo canes of the internet once more, Google Panda has returned to take another bite out of your online presence. Except it never really left. Google has made no secret of the fact that it regularly...Read More

How to Make Sure you Get Value for Money… Few businesses these days can afford not to invest in search engine optimisation (SEO) for their website. Even for relatively small businesses it can mean the difference between prospering and floundering, whether they’re targeting local customers or a worldwide audience. But a warning has come from...Read More

Cutts to Webmasters: Don’t stitch-up your users… In his latest YouTube video for GoogleWebmasterHelp, Google Head of Webspam Matt Cutts answers the question, ‘Is it a good practice to combine small portions of content from other sites?’ You can watch his response in full at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z13-yP3Zhns, but the thrust behind the answer is a resounding...Read More

Is Your Domain Name Important For Ranking… From time to time the search engine giants of the Internet provide a guiding hand or a few words of advice to SEO specialists and marketers. This week those words of wisdom came from Bing, in a blog post by Senior Product Manager Duane Forrester (http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2014/01/15/domain-name-importance-in-ranking.aspx). According to...Read More

2014 – The End of Keyword Data… It’s a little over two years since Google first announced that it would no longer be passing on keyword referral data to webmasters from queries made via secure search pages (ie those made from logged in Google accounts). In that time some keyword data has still been available,...Read More

Report sheds light on SEO high rankers… For webmasters and SEO professionals, the internal workings of Google are always of great interest, and from time to time information comes to light that can help them to improve their own SEO. A recent has revealed a wealth of information that can be used to determine what...Read More

Five Natural Ways to Optimise your Blog for Search Engines… Optimising isn’t just for websites, and whether your blog is your business or simply used to promote your business, it pays to spend a little time honing it. Search engine optimisation (SEO) doesn’t have to be difficult or overly complicated, though. Often it just requires...Read More

Google Webmaster Help… Many webmasters for small independent websites have long had the suspicion that they might be at a disadvantage to larger corporate websites that can afford to create masses of webpages and content. The general consensus has long been that the more pages you have indexed, the better you’re likely to rank in...Read More

2013 – A look back at the biggest news in SEO… With 2014 almost upon us, many firms are looking towards the year ahead. But now is also a good time to look back at some of the biggest stories in SEO and marketing over the previous year, as most of these will inevitably continue...Read More