We happened across a hotel in the North East that had bought some very, very expensive sitewide anchor text links from a network of newspaper sites. They were certainly paying many thousands of pounds a month for these links, and while they were undoubtedly helping the rankings it’s doubtful whether the market for hotels in [...]

Backlink analysis is a big part of what we SEOs do. Not only do we want to take a look at our client’s backlinks, we also want to know about the links to our client’s competition. Unfortunately, this kind of analysis can be pretty time consuming – an hour spent analysing a table of links [...]

It’s not often I let data leak or publish results from our Labs (or the SEO programming office just behind me), but while building our SEO link Analysis Toolbar for Firefox.. James started finding weird issues while parsing a page on a wordpress blog. This was down to a wordpress plugin that allows you to [...]

The cackhandedness of autospam hasn’t got any better has it? Here’s something I found on Vanity Fair (and no – you may not ask why I was reading it!) It’s fantastically stupid on many levels – and this screencap is only about half of the actual ‘comment’. Continue Reading First link first: We get asked [...]

I know it’s not a SEO’s responsibility to ensure that a client makes sure that the domains are kept up to date, but it’s one thing I keep an eye on for my clients and my competitors lol… We are the design and build team behind http://www.elddis.co.uk/ so when Lunar Caravan’s domain dropped it did [...]

Well they must be! What other situation would a company be in to release a product to a mass market that firstly has been mis sold to earn a fast buck and that wasn’t fully tested so that it brings down millions of consumer accounts. I’m referring to the release by InfinityWard of the long [...]