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What is Link Juice?

You may have been reading up on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and keep coming across a phrase called ‘Link Juice’. Well as our company is based on this phrase we are perfect people to explain it to you. Link Juice is the value (benefit) you get from links from other websites. For example if you […]

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Life as an SEO in the UK has just got harder

This week Google have started to roll out their SSL version of their search engine which was first seen in America back in October 2011. So why does this affect the SEO world in the UK? Google are very keen to let everyone who wants to know the benefits of SSL (HTTPS) which includes making […]

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How to simply add rel=Author to your website

After reading a lot of articles on the subject of adding rel=”Author” to your website I got very frustrated in the way they were written, even Google was very wordy. So I thought I would write a nice and easy post on how to quickly and easily you can add this important Tag. What does […]

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Canonicalization and when to use it

Search Engines like Google monitor the amount of links to your website, this helps them decide how important your page is for the keyword used. Therefore it is important not to share these valuable links over several versions of the same page. The most common homepage issue on canonicalization is having in-bound links pointing to […]

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Benefits of Google +1 button

Google have once again had another go at creating a social networking service to challenge Facebook. With Google+ (Google Plus) and they have done a good job. I think it is a little bit of a mix between Facebook and Linkedin and can be used for both personal and business. As with Facebook Google+ have […]

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Google+ Plus add your Business

Google have in the past stopped businesses creating accounts in Google+. This has made people ‘try’ and register a personal account in the name of their business. Google have been deleting these accounts to keep in line with their guidelines. However this has all changed, you can now create an account in Google+ for your […]

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Google Analytics Hides Organic Keyword Information

Last week Google announced that Google Analytics will no longer always show which keyword searchers used to find your website. A strong statement indeed and sadly one that could make it harder to know where your traffic is coming from. This is not the case for all searches, I will explain: Organic searches whilst logged […]

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Mobile Searches Increases

  Search engine optimisation for mobile devices is getting more and more important. Figures released this week show that in April 2010 they counted for 0.5% of all searches, the figure has now gone up a huge amount to 4.2%. If you think it’s only 4.2% that’s nothing, we think by this time next year […]

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Google Analytics Real Time

Google analytics have added a great new feature call ‘Real Time’. This new function allows you to see who is on your website at any one time. This type of service has been around for a while now from sites like Woopra.com, however their free service is limited. Apart from the obvious fun side of […]

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Googles Panda 2.5 update

Have you noticed that your website isn’t as high up the ranking on Google as it used to be?   This week we have seen and had it confirmed by Google their latest update called Panda 2.5 has been released. It came live on Wed/Thurs (28th/29th Sept) but Google will (obviously) not say what they […]

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Facebook and Twitter data merge

It has been reported that Facebook will allow user to sync their Twitter with their Facebook accounts. This ‘tie up’ will not go down well with Google. We are not sure when this will be allowed but keep checking Facebooks page.

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Yahoo creates new search engine

This week Yahoo announced that they will be improving their search engine by making the search cleaner with better filters. Search share hasn’t changed much recently with the top 5 in the US as follows:   July 2011 August 2011 Difference Google Sites 65.1% 64.8% -0.3% Yahoo Sites 16.1% 16.3% 0.2% Microsoft Sites 14.4% 14.7% […]

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