SEO Mistakes Archive

WebmasterTools in Dangerous Security Flaw

It has been seen tonight that WebmasterTools has suffered a major security hole and opened up and reverified all old accounts. What does this mean to the SEO community? From initial glance at our WMT’s accounts we now have regained access to every old account we have previously been given access to, whether that is [...]

Google Webmasters Flaw Allows You To Remove Any URL From Their Index

Sounds crazy? It’s Matt Cutts worst nightmare… The story was reported by James Breckenridge on his blog (which is brand spanking new, I guess he wanted to get some link juice out of this)!!!! Basically you access Webmasters Tools and use the following URL: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals-request?hl=en&siteUrl=http://{YOUR_URL}/&urlt={URL_TO_BLOCK} So we thought we’d give it a try with Alex’s [...]

Adding Your Site To Webmaster Tools May Reduce Your Rankings

This title is a bit of a shocker, but it’s true, but before I can explain it fully you need to hear the background to my story. Back in December 2010 I bought a website off Anthony, the website is called Cockatiel Care, it’s a terrible looking static site that for some reason had been [...]

Hugo Boss, the brand witch-hunt and Google’s culpability

..and the year’s new SEO pastime of “Out The Brand!” continues unabated. Today we learn that Hugo Boss have followed Beat That Quote and JC Penney into Google’s threshing machine. It’s a slightly different case, in that Hugo Boss are in trouble for effectively cloaking – redirecting users to relevant pages whilst serving default content [...]

Ecommerce Platforms: an SEO’s nemesis?

God-bastard-dammit. Another day, another client. Another website that “can’t be changed”. Another calamitous drop in rankings caused by a weakness in site architecture and a lack of support for content delivery. I have a drink of tea and sigh. It’s another e-commerce platform. On paper, a platform offers something great: the opportunity to roll out [...]

Google Wi-Fi slurp cleared by UK privacy watchdog

Below is the ICO announcement that clears Google of spying on us … what I just don’t get is Google said it was a mistake in June, they even blamed a software engineer for scooping up the Wi-Fi data.. if it was truly a mistake why not just delete the data ??? and if it [...]

SEO is Dead: Check Out KP Baby

After browsing The Sun tabloid the other day I saw that Katie Price had launched a new babywear site. When I see new sites I like to have a delve into the source code and browse around the site to see what been missed out SEO-wise. Well on kpbaby.co.uk it seems like SEO hasn’t even [...]

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