search-engine-optimisation

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of methods aimed at improving the ranking of a website in search engine listings, and could be considered a subset of search engine …

I have suffered from content theft for ages across most of my sites and especially on my biggest money earner. Not so long ago one SEO suggested removing RSS from …

When I started on my Internet journey about 4 years ago I was advised by a close friend who was in the know to learn SEO. Naturally (at the time) …

Facebook, the world’s fastest growing web community, is under pressure from Mattel and Hasbro to close the Scrabulous game down. Scrabulous is a game “application” on Facebook, which allows friends …

I recently came across WebMeUp.com while searching for new ways to track down dodgy backlinks following a Google Penguin penalty. I had already used Google Webmaster Tools but felt that …

Someone Else’s Shit On My Desk A week or so ago, just before Link Love London 2012 (if you missed it, read these blog posts about Link Love 2012) a …

Tweet Link building is unfortunately a necessity for improving the search engine rankings (performance, results page positions) of your website. In and ideal World, quality websites would naturally rise up …

On July 24, 2014, Google released another algorithm update with the code name Pigeon. The aim was to give preference to local search results. Moz did a comprehensive survey on …

Google Panda! Named after a Man, Not a Beast! In true cheap blogging fashion many people have shared Google’s new guidelines for web content quality. Ironically, it is this type …

Tweet Just checked in to Facebook to see if it is my move in Scrabble or Wordscraper, and all apps.facebook.com pages seem to be down right now. The following message …

Ok, what are the golden rules of SEO? SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is the process of improving a website so that it appears higher up in the search engine results …

Today and uploaded another disavow file to Google Webmaster Tools. And a little afterwards, I received an email informing me that it had been processed. Not sure what processed means …

Contents Is the Google Webspam Team Too Draconian? Google Says You Can Have More Than 100 Links Per Page Are Google Sitemaps Important for SEO? Why Googlebot Stopped Coming To …

Tweet Today I have been doing some very simple SEO work for a client. It simply involves analysing backlinks from comments on blogs and then adding a comment of my …

The Facebook Community are divided over the recent announcement by Facebook that user profiles will soon be indexed on search engines. Like Orkut, to search for individuals in Facebook you …

Today Dan Vuksanovich from Website Traffic Increaser Guy shares some advice with us about howto evaluate an SEO provider. This article is designed to provide you with some clarity and guidance in sifting …

You may be tempted to guest blog to get “natural” links. Well, if you do, be careful. A lot of low quality sites have moved into the guest blogging realm, …

This sounds too good to be true, and frankly, it probably is. This is from an Google Adwords advert currently running here on Webologist.co.uk. Now, I know a bit about …

OK, many people (names shall be changed to protect the innocent) make the same mistakes when they start out promoting their new business / website. The mistake is this: they …

Item No. 2. At Toilet. Not so long ago Google rolled out the Caffeine update. The purpose of caffeine was to speed up the gathering of the World’s data so …

Today there were quite a few changes in the Google search pages, with many sites dancing a jolly little jig while Google was making an important update to its search …

The following research paper was written by a team of Google search scientists. It was published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment and released under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported …

OK, things have not been going too great since the a site restructure, but I have been ploughing on all the same. Yesterday was the worse Monday in several years, …

Well, it’s back to college for me! Just start a Digital Marketing course that is run by the University of Southampton on the FutureLearn platform. If you have not already …