Everyone assumes that green line is all to do with backlinks.

Rubbish.

I'll demonstrate. Continue reading...

I have been to many conferences on search over the years. If you are - or want to be - on the speaker circuit, here's my pick of the best. Continue reading...

Today I managed to work out that for every link that you get in a blog post, you'll get 478% more conversions than getting a list in the comments following a blog post. Continue reading...

There is some evidence that Google may be throttling traffic to some sites on purpose, thereby creating a Google glass ceiling for your site. Is it happening to you? Are you getting more or less the same number of visitors every day from the world's favourite search engine? Continue reading...

At A4U Joost is presenting on WordPress Optimisation. He has some great tips - so much that I am in danger of missing my own talk by watching his! Continue reading...

Back in 2001, who was number 1 for "search engine optimisation" on Google? Yes! and here's the proof. Continue reading...

Rebecca Berkich works for Xerox. She manages their seach efforts in-house across most of the world, except the Far East where she has to coordinate efforts with a sister brand. I had the pleasure of hearing her take on search marketing at the International Search Summit, held at the British Library a few weeks back. Rebecca's role seems to mostly be going around variuos stakeholders within Xerox trying to edge them… Continue reading...

I just noticed that Search Engine Land's Facebook group has just recruited its 2000th member. I thought I knew the first few members - but was surprised that I also know the 2000th! Jason Duke has been on the search scene forever (Warning - You Tube Link)- you may have seen him walking around wearing a Spam sandwichboard if you have been in… Continue reading...

Why I still believe short term link building is bad - even though it works. Continue reading...

If you haven't had a chance to see this back link analysis tool yet, here's a password that will only last a couple of weeks. You should get there quickly if you are onto SEO. Continue reading...