ASOS Decides to Commit SEO Suicide
Update: 25/06/2014 So, ASOS brought their site back online pretty quickly after writing this article, and before Google was able to display a cache of a website with no content on it. Original Article...
View ArticleRel=”Prerender” is Being Inserted in Search Results to Make Position 1 Load...
Via Google developer docs Prerendering is an experimental feature in Chrome (versions 13 and up) that can take hints from a site’s author to speed up the browsing experience of users. It’s a bit like...
View ArticleLazy Loading Images SEO Experiment
Looking for my SEO experiment on original content? Check out 45wn343on Does Lazy Loading Images Hurt SEO? TLDR: No. Important Update! Make sure you read my super popular related post on using noscript...
View ArticleArticle Read Time Rich Snippets Appearing in Google Search Results?
Is Google testing a ‘reading time’ metric to display as a search result rich snippet? Spotted this today: Here’s a closer look: Tweet this screenshot If you are wondering, it’s just coincidence that I...
View ArticleHiding Keywords in 2015 with noscript tags – SEO Experiment
In my earlier post on using <noscript> tags for ensuring good SEO when using lazy loaded images, we observed that Google is able to properly crawl, index and will rank pages for keywords inside...
View ArticleQ & A With Google Web Trends Analyst Gary Illyes – SMX Sydney 2015
I sat down with Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX Sydney 2015 for a quick Q & A. Question: Why didn’t we see a bigger effect in search results following the April 21 mobile friendly update? Gary Illyes:...
View Article5 Types of SEOs
Which one are you? 1. The Rand Fishkin “*Sigh* How can I get my clients to stop thinking about links? Why don’t they get that SEO is so much more than just keywords? I’m a digital marketer, I don’t...
View ArticleSearch World – An xkcd-Inspired Map of the SEO Industry
Click the image to see the full size map Inspired by xkcd’s map of online communities. Links to everything referenced in this map The post Search World – An xkcd-Inspired Map of the SEO Industry...
View ArticleSEO’s War Between Word Men and Math Men. Users Vs Search Engines
In 2009 Rand Fishkin wrote a blog post entitled Terrible SEO Advice: Focus on Users, Not Engines. The post generated over 170 comments of discussion, and illustrates how periniall the question: “What...
View ArticleHappy Mobile New Year – AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)
Content-wise, 2015 was a good year, with traffic from SEO to my knowledge base and SEO blog pages increasing by 150% YoY. My 2016 new year’s resolutions are to: Write more SEO experiments, which are...
View ArticleAre you completely misreading time on site in Google Analytics?
If you’re new to web analytics or GA, you probably don’t realise the number highlighted below doesn’t mean what you think it says: I’ve found +90% of people I’ve worked with in digital marketing...
View ArticleA Look Back at SEO Predictions
Happy new year. Yes, it’s that time of year again when the experts dust off their keyboards and round up their top X list of seo predictions for the year ahead. To save you that click from your...
View ArticleSendPulse Review: Increase Web Traffic with Web Push Notifications
Push notifications and emails are both powerful ways to engage your users. In many ways, they complement each other. Until now, there was no email marketing service provider (ESP) which offered both...
View ArticleArticle Read Time Rich Snippets Appearing in Google Search Results?
Is Google testing a ‘reading time’ metric to display as a search result rich snippet? Spotted this today: Here’s a closer look: Tweet this screenshot If you are wondering, it’s just coincidence that I...
View ArticleHiding Keywords in 2015 with noscript tags – SEO Experiment
In my earlier post on using <noscript> tags for ensuring good SEO when using lazy loaded images, we observed that Google is able to properly crawl, index and will rank pages for keywords inside...
View ArticleQ & A With Google Web Trends Analyst Gary Illyes – SMX Sydney 2015
I sat down with Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX Sydney 2015 for a quick Q & A. Question: Why didn’t we see a bigger effect in search results following the April 21 mobile friendly update? Gary Illyes:...
View Article5 Types of SEOs
Which one are you? 1. The Rand Fishkin “*Sigh* How can I get my clients to stop thinking about links? Why don’t they get that SEO is so much more than just keywords? I’m a digital marketer, I don’t...
View ArticleSearch World – An xkcd-Inspired Map of the SEO Industry
Click the image to see the full size map Inspired by xkcd’s map of online communities. Links to everything referenced in this map The post Search World – An xkcd-Inspired Map of the SEO Industry...
View ArticleSEO’s War Between Word Men and Math Men. Users Vs Search Engines
In 2009 Rand Fishkin wrote a blog post entitled Terrible SEO Advice: Focus on Users, Not Engines. The post generated over 170 comments of discussion, and illustrates how periniall the question: “What...
View ArticleHappy Mobile New Year – AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages)
Content-wise, 2015 was a good year, with traffic from SEO to my knowledge base and SEO blog pages increasing by 150% YoY. My 2016 new year’s resolutions are to: Write more SEO experiments, which are...
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