Using the Cross Domain Rel Canonical as an SEO Weapon

May 25, 2011

We’ve known since 2009 that Google fully supports the cross domain rel=canonical and more recently it has transpired that the canonical may be faster and more effective than a 301, the traditional way for SEO’s to point the right link juice at the right places. Seriously, there are a number of ways this can be [...]

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The Difference Between a Well Ranked Site with Good Traffic and a Top Ranked Site with Huge Traffic

March 31, 2011

I have had very little time to blog over the last couple of months, the industry seems to be booming even more so than a few years ago which means I am kept very busy! Despite the lack of posts (other than quick news updates) there has been loads I want to talk about, Google [...]

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How Will The ‘Farmer’ Update Impact Your Links

March 7, 2011

All the recent commentary surrounding Google’s most recent Farmer Update has been firmly focused on what content will and won’t be in Google’s index in the coming months. Websites are already reporting drops in traffic and in indexed pages but to be honest how many pages an article site has indexed isn’t important to me, [...]

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Visualising & Understanding Where You Need To Build Links

February 6, 2011
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If you’re anything like me you will have been in a position hundreds of times, where you a trying to rank for a given keyword and no matter what you do, you cannot break into that top 5 or hit that first position. Part of you says ‘just keep going & build more links’, however [...]

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Google Top References Rolling Out!

December 21, 2010

We noticed in the office earlier today that Google seems to be testing “Top References”: As you can see Google seem to taking your search (roses in this example) and presenting options for you to choose from in attempt to narrow down your results and give you the page you’re really after. We haven’t seen [...]

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Google & Facebook Will Change The Search Landscape Forever

December 12, 2010
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In the next 12 – 18 months I personally feel the search landscape will change more drastically than we ever seen before, Google has already begun to roll out multiple changes and the failed buy out of Groupon clearly shows the direction they would like to take their search engine. We also have Facebook firmly [...]

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Anchor Text Has Lost Its Edge – Time To Build A Healthy Strong Domain, Old Techniques Are Not Going to Cut it

September 13, 2010
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Last year I published a link correlation article showing the most important link building metrics to consider when putting together a campaign. If you missed it check it out here. It was republished and linked to widely including from SEOmoz as it was data from their tools that helped me put the report together. I [...]

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