I know I’ve spoken before about SEO preparation when developing a new site but in the last week or so I’ve seen some massive but unfortunately common real world examples of SEO being jeopardised because of new web site development. 1. You only allow 48 hours for SEO review. This is insane if you already have good […]
I hadn’t recorded an SEO review show for a while but I’m reviewing several sites a day at the moment for businesses that were hit by Penguin or Panda. The Panda updates are weeding out web pages that Google decide have quality issues. This is not a comprehensive guide to fixing a site after a […]
You may remember we were the first SEO team in the world to detect the so called Google “Phantom” update that occurred in Australia on May 3, 2013. Since then we have seen a lot of ecommerce sites badly affected by this change. The changes mainly affected when and how Google + Local results were […]
Following on from last week on how to use video for your business, I wanted to show you how to optimise your videos on YouTube for some good SEO traffic. Let’s face it, YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine. Top 6 Youtube Video SEO Tips 1. Video titles Just like page titles in […]
Giving my presentation at PeSA 2013 on SEO 101 today and this is a post to demonstrate a few SEO principles. It’s been a great conference. Huge crowds this year too. I love this conference and it is my third year. I always learn alot from other SEO guys and hear some great ecommerce stories […]
Remember Matt Cutts back in August last year saying that the next Penguin update would be jarring and jolting? Well there have been a couple of Penguin updates since then but they weren’t that bad. Five days ago however the big one hit. . What We Are Seeing A few of our clients had participated […]
In Melbourne we actually have penguins. There is a small colony of them in a St Kilda a bayside suburb. They’re very cute, not like Matt Cutts’ Penguin. That is going to be one mean, grumpy sucker. Right now it is the calm before the storm as all indications are that this update is going […]
As if the last few weeks haven’t been tumultuous enough for businesses SEO with Google changes, there is more on the way. Matt Cutts released a video (below) today announcing what to expect in the next few months from Google. It’s going to upset a lot of people but there are some wins if you […]
The massive Google update we saw last week is still evolving but here’s what you need to know so far. We don’t even have a name for this update yet so I can’t try to rank for it 🙁 About a month ago I said Penguin 2.0 was coming it feels different to Penguin though. […]
Whooa big change today. On Wednesday our Head of Development Jine, noticed that the “places” menu item had disappeared from Google. This is a capture from my video of April 16. It was there on Wednesday morning as well as we use it a lot to edit and find clients places listings quickly. Then in […]