I must say that I have been hugely encouraged by Google’s drive towards a more open communication with the Webmaster community recently. Their monthly search quality briefings and their decision to start encouraging users in Webmaster Central to set up email alerts are really helpful. In fact – so is the whole “Inside Search Quality” blog.

Today I saw that they had a video of a search quality… Continue reading...

Last month, Google said they changed “something” to do with links. To be exact, they “switched something off”. Now – I’m pretty confident that the changes just around the corner will be hugely more significant, but in the meantime I thought I would do a post that shows you several ways to test theories about links in Google for yourself… or just see what happens to my tests.

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How Google crawls and retrieves data from the web. Some common SEO issues that arise. From Googler’s mouth. Continue reading...

Some people will just do anything to get noticed at SMX West… Continue reading...

Thinking of registering for Nectar points? There is absolutely no excuse for companies to make an online experience so hard when trying to tempt you with a Loyalty card. Surely – Loyalty is something to be treasured… not tested online. Here is my laughable experience with Nectar this morning. Continue reading...