Welcome back Rankers! Last show before the Christmas holidays. Today we’re going to learn what happens when moving to HTTPS goes wrong. So we all know by now that we have to work towards getting HTTPS across your entire site, as from January Google is going to start issuing warnings in the browser that states […]
Welcome back Rankers! I’m asking for help this week, as ever since the last Google updates, and I’m not talking about Penguin, I’m referring to the undocumented updates that were reported earlier (Maybe possum update?) . We saw an update around the 1st October then another around the 6th October. Since then we’ve noticed some […]
Welcome back Rankers! If you had a look at your analytics this week and you saw a great big spike in traffic, you may very well have felt a swell of pride at your newfound popularity. The reality, unfortunately, is that you are not. Sorry. What’s been happening is that there is a lot of referral spam […]
Yesterday one of our client’s hosting companies accidentally applied https to their site. It was via the popular server management software WHM. Apparently there has been an update recently for “auto SSL“. If your hosting company installs that update, it will automatically apply SSL and update it the certificate as required. That is a BIG issue if […]
Welcome back Rankers! I want to cover a couple of things this week, the first being Google Trends. You may remember we did the story last week about how Google Trends has successfully predicted the outcome of elections. The next big election I believe is coming up is in France. If there is another in […]
This is a short post but I hope you find it interesting. I love Google trends. In most cases I prefer to use it for keyword research than the Adwords keyword planner tool. It’s more granular and allows me to see the difference between plural and singular. Now with it’s added features that will allow […]
Please Sign This Petition to Stop .AU Direct Registrations https://www.change.org/p/malcolm-turnbull-stop-au-it-s-a-cash-grab-that-will-hurt-business After I finished recording yesterday, I logged onto Twitter and saw this question by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting. Eric has been around forever and his SEO knowledge is immense. I suspect he already knew the answer to his question but I thought it […]
Welcome back Rankers! I found a few comments on my show last week that I wanted to discuss. Now if you remember, last week I covered three SEO things you should be looking at before the New Year. One of those things was AMP, or Accelerated Mobile Pages. Now the AMP project is not just […]
Thought it was that time again to start making references to SEO and 2017 🙂 . There is actually a bunch of stuff you need to get done because of all the announcements and Google changes but here are my top 3. SEO Video Transcript Welcome back Rankers! So how is Penguin treating you? […]
UPDATE: We have fixed the issues with our clients. It turns out there were some configuration issues with the DNS but they had been like that for a very long time. It seems that Google on October 8 started to pick up on these sorts of DNS issues. If you have one that started on […]