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Still no arrival of the Penguin, boys and girls. There was a SMX conference last week where Gary Illyes was presenting. In reference to Penguin, he stated that he wasn’t willing to offer a further date for Penguin as he’d been wrong on every other occasion. If the spokesman for Google is unsure, what hope […]
Okay, confession time first. There’s still no sign of the Penguin. Turns out that what I, and the team here in general, were seeing, was a change in Google’s local search. Our localised results had changed, but we have noticed it for clients in other regions around town. Just keep an eye on your traffic. […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘An SEO Penguin like update’. A couple of major things to cover off today. The first is a story that is hot off the press. You may have noticed in your recent Google searches that all the ads that were normally down the right hand side of the page have […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘SEO & Social Proof’. We talk a lot about “social proof” these days which basically means evidence that you are popular. That can mean, the number of likes or followers, the number of reviews or comments or the number of shares. We know that Google looks at these things and presumably […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘Culling Bad SEO Links’. This is my second part to getting ready for for the inevitable lumbering Google Penguin that will be crushing businesses near you some time soon. In the first part I explained how to tell a if a back link is spammy. If you have hundreds or […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘Google News Teaches SEO’. An old geeky mate of mine Nathan Allan just finished beta testing Bloggers SEO for me. The feedback he gave me was awesome but he did mention that he heard Google News was pretty easy to feature in if you just followed some simple configuration steps. This […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘3 SEO Hacks To Jump To The Top’. Whilst we’re waiting for the giant penguin slapping sounds, I thought I’d share with you 3 ways to jump above the organic results. 1. Featured Answers I touched on this last year when Google’s Gary Illyes was speaking at the State Of […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘SEO Hysteria & Google Updates’. As I’m writing this Google will probably roll out the Penguin update and make me look like a dickhead… again. However, as of yesterday there was no Google Penguin rollout, despite many claiming there was. Just an hour or so after I published my video […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘Why Your Mobile SEO May Need PPC’. Well it’s another day ending in the letter “y” so it’s time for Google to make a change. This time it’s PPC. Several reports came in this week of people seeing a fourth ad below the usual top 3. This will further push […]
UPDATE: Video transcript available for ‘4 signs your SEO backlinks are spammy’. After the show last week on the Google realtime Penguin, I had a lot of questions about how do you know if a backlink is spammy or not. So here’s how I do it. After getting your backlink list from either the Google […]
