How do I make sure my site is mobile friendly? A checklist
Last week, Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that the latest wave of changes to Google’s mobile-friendly ranking signal has now finished rolling out.
BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?
Today it was announced that the BBC Food recipe website is to close, or at least mothballed in some way. It contains … read more
Google doubles down on native app experiences with Gboard, Chirp and Translate
Google puts high value in mobile user experience. The truthfulness of that statement can be tracked back as far Google’s first .mobi website 10 years ago, or when it launched the first iteration of its Android operating system in 2008.
How to write meta title tags for SEO (with good and bad examples)
What is a title tag? How do you write one? Why are title tags important? Do they actually help with search engine optimisation?
Brand slackers: organic search is not always about non-branded keywords
I admit it, I am addicted to the non-branded organic referral, but let’s be honest, the branded or partially branded organic search traffic that you are receiving (or not) is much more qualified.
How to avoid your search marketing campaign falling short of its potential
If you’re working as an SEO professional this post is for you. I’ll show you some practical ways you can ensure that your campaign reaches it’s potential.
Google has banned payday loan PPC ads, but who benefits?
Last week, Google announced a change to its AdWords policy around payday loans, banning ads for products with high APRs and short repayment terms.
Six most interesting search marketing news stories of the week
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search marketing and beyond.
Is it game over for PRs when it comes to link building?
Alex Jones from Hallam Internet shared a new case study around an outbound PR campaign, focused on bloggers. The campaign sought to attract the attention of a bunch of highly relevant bloggers, as well as, hopefully, a few links.
Everything you always wanted to know about programmatic but were too afraid to ask
One of the biggest challenges to programmatic adoption is that people are afraid of it.
Google Ad 4-pack now shown for 23% of all online search topics
Brand new research out today reveals that, since Google AdWords removed its right-hand side ads and brought in an occasional fourth paid ad position for ‘highly commercial’ search terms, this fourth ad appears for nearly one-quarter of all search topics.
Why you NEED to raise organic CTR’s (and how to do it)
Does organic click-through rate (CTR) data impact page rankings on Google? This has been a huge topic of speculation for years within the search industry.
SEO 101: eight simple ways to optimise your blog posts for search
You don’t have to be an SEO expert to optimise your content in just a few steps and improve your page’s ranking on search engine results pages (SERPs).
Here’s a new content marketing strategy documentation map
I’m currently going through the process of establishing a content strategy from scratch and thought I’d share what I’m doing, which I’ve summarised in this visualisation.
Food Tube: How video storytelling led to 2m YouTube subscribers
What’s the secret for Food Tube’s successful YouTube presence and how can you create unique content in the food industry? Food Tube … read more
Understanding the mobile customer journey
This is a brief guide to the definitions, distinctions, methods and use of some oft-confused, but very useful methodologies for understanding mobile customers.
Adopting a consumer mindset for your SEO strategy
Search engines continue to adjust algorithms to better match how consumers actually conduct their searches. How should this affect our optimization efforts?
How Nordstrom strategically beat Zappos in Google Search
Five years ago, in April 2011, Zappos’ market share in Google was more than three times as large as Nordstrom‘s. Today, Nordstrom has twice the market share on Google as Zappos.
Search marketing in China: the rise of so.com
An estimated 507 million Chinese use search engines. This is an enormous marketplace for companies who want to grow overseas and engage with new prospective customers.
Google Search Console: a complete overview
The Search Console (or Google Webmaster Tools as it used to be known) is a completely free and indispensably useful service offered by Google to all webmasters to help optimise their sites for search.