For a while we have known now that Google are using page load speed as a metric in their search ranking algorithm.  The logic is that longer page load times are detrimental to user experience, and particularly in this age when the majority of computer owners have access to high speed broadband, this is truer than Read Blog…

I found this this out by accident so let me explain what it is and how I found it. I was casually browsing some places listings yesterday and I left a review for a particular company. Today I went back there looking for something else and I noticed my name had a link on it. Read Blog…

I have been doing SEO for a while and I have found all sorts of websites that get linked and many that won’t get the luck it deserves. Good content is what gets shared or linked to externally But what do people link and share? Link bait is a page or source on the net Read Blog…

The days of just Facebook and Twitter are long gone with the likes of Google+ and Pinterest both emerging to become a force to be reckoned with. Every news article claims something different with X having more followers Y, Y growing faster than X. Z being trendier than X and Y. With this in mind Read Blog…

Now that Facebook has brought the Timeline over to the Pages brands have the opportunity to tell their story. When the change was first announced I was a bit apprehensive at the marketing potential, especially considering that the default landing tabs (the number one tool in any Facebook marketer’s arsenal) have gone the way of Read Blog…

It seems that ever since Google+ was launched last year, there is at least one blog per week questioning its quality, why it exists and if there are any active accounts on there that don’t belong to technical or SEO bloggers.  So, excuse me for contributing to that slush pile, but earlier this week when an Read Blog…

A colleague sent a link to a blog post around this morning regarding what he thought was a shameless link building tactic. It was slightly shameful in the sense that rather than going out and doing the work, this editor had simply asked the audience to do the work for him. Now you might ask Read Blog…

As mentioned in our previous post today, Google has today made further changes to Google Webmaster Tools. I thought that it’d be a good to discuss these recent changes. The changes made are to one of the most useful features within Webmaster Tools; the crawl error section. The crawl error section essentially details any issues Read Blog…