There are a few common mistakes that people new to SEO often make.  Being relatively new to search engine optimisation myself, I try to avoid commenting on these issues unless I’m fully confident about the advice I’m giving. This is the case with the information about Google’s index that I recently began to understand, so I Read Blog…

One of the things I love about working in SEO is that for every event, significant or insignificant, there is almost always a complete dichotomy between how the brightest minds in our industry interpret these events.  I’ve been reading about search engine optimisation pretty much every day of my life for a about a year now, Read Blog…

I’ve been thinking for some time now that link building is in danger of becoming a lost art, like cartography, whittling, or good driving.  The plethora of automated submission and profile creation tools, and an over reliance on social bookmarking and directory submissions have meant that many new internet marketers never build links by hand, and Read Blog…

If you’re reading this blog based on the title, I’d assume you’re viewing it with a great deal of cynicism, and rightly so. There’s no such thing as a guaranteed-to-work ‘Penguin Recovery Plan’ because we don’t know the algorithm, we don’t have Google’s data set, and therefore we don’t know crossing which thresholds in which Read Blog…

The past couple of blogs that I have written on the subject of website performance have focused on the principles behind page speed optimisation and also, how the ‘cache’ needs to be factored into any site performance updates you make. In this blog however, I’d like to focus a bit more on the actual best Read Blog…

There has been a lot of coverage in the SEO blogosphere recently dedicated to the huge surge in notifications that Google have been sending out to Webmasters regarding their alleged use of unnatural linking methods.  There have been more than 700,000 sent out in January and February of this year; more than were sent out during Read Blog…

As we reported here on SEO Consult only a few days ago, Google recently publically disclosed a series of algorithm updates that had been made in March.  Obviously there were potentially hundreds of other smaller tweaks or changes made by Google that they decided not to make public, but it’s always good to take this opportunity Read Blog…

It’s been nearly a year since Google released the Panda update, which saw low quality websites punished for being, well…low quality.  Over the past year, as can be expected, there has been a lot of speculation about what the Panda update really was, and what the long-term implications were for search engine optimisation practitioners around the Read Blog…