Every morning I look at ranking reports of every client before I get out of bed. This morning was no different. Our reporting software AWR starts the run about midnight and is usually finished about 8 hours later. I start looking at the reports at around 6:30am depending if it’s my turn to give our […]
We’ve still got a few weeks until the year wraps up, but this week we thought we’d channel our inner-Nostradamus and predict what changes & updates Google will make in 2013. But before we can look ahead, we thought we’d take a look back at Google’s greatest hits of 2012 and recap anything important you […]
For years now we’ve been performing site audits for any website that was game enough for us to take a look at their SEO efforts all across YouTube! Not everyone is game, but if they are then they usually come out of the experience with a boatload of changes to make to their site and […]
One of our junior developers came to me yesterday morning and said “How about I clean out the webmaster tools account? There are lots of old clients in there that are unverified.” . For an SEO company like ours we have a main Webmaster tools account that all our clients are connected to. The account […]
Want your personal emails strewn across your search results? Google thinks so. After announcing a trial a few months ago, Google recently launched Gmail, Calendar & Google Drive integration into search, allowing you to see your files, events and emails when triggered by a relevant search term. Can you say creepy? The changes also extend […]
Did you miss the ClickFrenzy… frenzy? You’re not alone. After launching last night to weeks of publicity and media fanfare, the 24-hour deal site went through hours of technical issues, with most visitors unable to load the site for the majority of it’s big coming out party. These users made it known too, with #ClickFail […]
Ever wondered how your competition got that number one spot in Google? Well stop wondering and start exploring. Today we’re going to take a look at how your competitors got their number one ranking… and how you can steal it. Your first destination is to head to the SERP for your chosen keyword. Explore each […]
This week we noticed a couple changes to how Google displays site speed information and thought it would be a good opportunity to go over how site speed can affect your SEO and explore the different tools at your disposal to turn the tides against slow page load times. Why does Google care about site […]
Last week Google merged their Trends and Insights for Search products into one behemoth of a search traffic tool. Now unified under the banner of Google Trends, we thought we’d take a look at a few of the ways you can use Google’s new Trends tool to gain insight into search traffic and boost your […]
Myth 1: The disavow link tool can be used for negative SEO The only way someone could use the disavow link tool to harm your site is if they gained access to your Google Webmaster Tools account and disavowed a bunch of high-quality links. Now might be a good time to clean up your WMT […]