For years I have heard people say “buy links for your competitor and report them”, if it was really that easy and I’m guessing not illegal then we would all be doing it, wouldn’t we ? Why it just doesn’t work that way Sometimes I sit at home at night and pretend I’m the Head [...]

1) Buy awesome Camera 2) start snapping 3) sit back and be revel in your handy work Not worried Not Ready Smile No Really Smile Really WTF “we never get a nice photo Adam always pulls a stupid face” Shelley Stafford oh wait a minute Shelley Wait it’s not just Adam Hog Roast (2am bad [...]

Let’s just cut straight to the chase, why is Google trusting Trustpilot? Surely they can see the same things as I can, can’t they ? 1) I did a search on Google and noticed this : Nothing new I know, but how many people actually click on the star rated link or just see them [...]

Google recently announced “40 changes for February” but the big one from an SEO’s point of view was the Link evaluation Link evaluation. We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page. We have changed the way in which we evaluate links; in particular, we are turning off [...]

There seems to be a lot of confusion recently about what is spam and what isn’t spam when it comes to rich snippets and that the confusion appears to be led by Google (go figure). PPC Rich Snippets Rich snippets for me are user reviews. Take the hotel industry for example: You can see I [...]

This came up at the London Affiliate Conference and I  thought I would share it : Do a quick search of  Joomla in www.google.co.uk  or maybe Google.co.nz The question I asked was what did Joomla do wrong : US results : Can you answer the question? Really what did Joomla do? Dave

Not sure why I like the little things that Google does, but we found these today : and this one : and this : I then spent 20 minutes trying to find some more but failed.. If you can find any let me know in the comments below and I will update and credit you [...]