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Google Webmaster Tools got given a new coat of paint earlier this month, bringing it up to speed with the visual changes Google’s been making over the last year. The main changes include a new-look dashboard and redesigned menus that make Webmaster Tools more intuitive and user friendly in the same vein as Gmail, Reader […]

We’ve had a lot of viewers asking us about Google’s Knowledge Graph since it launched in the US last week and thought we’d use this weeks blog post to answer some of the most common questions asked about Google’s Knowledge Graph. Got your own question? Send it to Ask [email protected] and we’ll post it! What’s […]

Scared of a competitor attempting to torpedo your site with links in the wake of Google’s Penguin update? While Google says they’re almost certain it can’t be done, it can’t hurt to be overly prepared when your rankings are at stake. Today we’ll take a look at what you can do to fight negative SEO […]

How To Remove Backlinks That depends on how you got them. Visit the site where you bought the links from and see if there’s a way to take your links down. If there’s a cost incurred to remove backlinks, wearing it would be a good move to ensure your site doesn’t get hit or so […]

Google’s algorithm change from last week has been code named ‘Penguin’ and boy has it upset a lot of people. I said last week I hadn’t seen a change this big to the search results from an algorithm update since 2007. Like the change back then, I love this one too. We’re in the fortunate […]

Remember those Google ‘over-optimisation’ penalties we warned you about last month? They’ve begun rolling out in the last 24 hours, causing huge rankings shifts for a wide range of SERPs. These aren’t just rankings moving a few spots. This is deindexation of entire sites that once ruled the top of Google. This is sites that […]

Not sure how to fix your tech problem? Blame Google! The search giant is fast becoming the scapegoat of choice for tech-tards everywhere, most recently for the Herald Sun, who on Sunday night revealed Hamish Blake had won the Gold Logie before it had actually happened. I know what you’re thinking and no, Murdoch’s empire […]

In January of last year I wrote a blog post and shot a video about Sensis becoming an authorised Google AdWords reseller. The jist of the video was that Sensis was raising the white flag on its big yellow book and moving online while still charging by the bucketload for its print ads. We got […]

After last week’s show we had a lot of viewers all asking us the same question: How do I know if my links are harming my rankings? Here’s 5 warning signs that your links are hurting your rankings: You frequently buy services from responded to an email that begin with “Hello Business Owner” You get […]

Remember when we told you on last week’s show that Google were going to begin penalising for ‘over-optimisation’? The slaughter has already begun. Since the start of the year, blog networks, article networks and other shady link exchanging services began dropping entirely out of Google. Even though all of those links you paid for over […]