While trying to get my head around the whole “Google caught Bing cheating” I found myself asking more and more questions. The first question was when Google ran the experiment they say around 20 Google engineers went home and ran the test queries using Internet Explorer with a Bing toolbar installed and the Suggested Sites [...]

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have a demo of Searchmetrics with Kevin Thiele. Searchmetrics does a similar job to many of the other SEO tools out there, rank tracking, link checks, keywords, except it does it a lot, lot better and with a higher degree of accuracy (in my humble opinion). Here are a [...]

Lost website rankings? It could be your hosting supplier. Downtime of your site can lead to worse rankings in the search engines. I’ve been saying this for a long time now, and have demonstrated some small examples to demonstrate it. Now though, I’ve found a strong example that I thought i would show you. Independer.nl [...]

Just saw this on Google (see screenshot below), it’s basically a search results page with very accurate location information (my poscode has been erased out) and it only shows 4 listings. DaveN says he has seen this on some searches for brands and James, one of our developers, has also been seeing it. If Google [...]

I often get asked, normally by other SEO’s or journalists that are writing about search, what is SEO? What is Search Engine Optimisation? I often struggle to give a one line answer other than “we are the strange breed of people that makes websites like yours appeal to websites like Google and Bing” So why [...]

Yesterday while looking in to my Google Crystal Ball. I checked out “London Hotels” and was surprised to see the check in box and prices,  look at the London Hilton Park Lane, the prices lead to ad’s (I also noticed when I changed the dates at the top the hotel listings changed) Personally I’m in [...]