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Google is Rewarding Mobile-friendly Sites in Search Results

Google has announced that they will be using mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal from 21 April 2015. From a user point of view, when you search on a phone or tablet then more mobile-friendly sites will appear more prominently in your searches. So if your site isn’t mobile friendly there is no better time to make the […]
Post by SEO Department

Mar 02, 2015

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How to earn links for SEO?

Link building is the hardest part of seo and to make it even harder John Mueller from Google announced on the 13th February “in general I’d avoid it.” So how do companies perform search engine optimisation without links? Is it possible? John admits links are part of the seo algorithm, but they are just one […]
Post by SEO Department

Feb 23, 2015

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2015 SEO Predictions

The ways in which Search Engine Optimisation changes each year means that the strategy that is used needs to be changed too. Years back, when SEO was much simpler, keyword spamming and as many backlinks as possible linking to your site would quickly jump you up the rankings but everything has changed. This year, we […]
Post by SEO Department

Jan 14, 2015

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SEO and Social Media: The Perfect Partners

Most of us have had a suspicion for a while that social media has an impact on seo rankings and the Moz.com 2013 search ranking factors confirmed this for us. http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors So the question is…. are you still running your SEO activity in a separate silo to your social media marketing? The answer should absolutely […]
Post by Mike Teasdale

Nov 27, 2013

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Google Hummingbird – the three web resources you must read

Google Hummingbird, as even the Daily Mail has noticed, is the latest update to Google’s search technology. This is not so much a change in Google’s search algorithm as a complete refresh of the core search infrastructure – and as such the impact will make itself known over the months and years ahead. So what […]
Post by Mike Teasdale

Oct 28, 2013

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Brand searches – an integrated approach

A few weeks ago, Econsultancy featured an interesting post on The Slow Death of the Home Page. Econsultancy focuses in on the tendency of search engines to deep link to content in your site so that visitors bypass your home page, but I want to focus on another search-related issue. For most brands, their brand […]
Post by Mike Teasdale

Jul 02, 2013

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