5 Top Predictions for SEO in 2022 – and 5 Other Things That Might Actually Happen

Whilst we can’t know everything about the future, like the banks, Facebook and Google are now too big to fail. In the same way we look back at keyword spamming now and laugh, soon manual link-building will go the same way – Facebook and Google are both increasingly relying on

Red or Blue has moved!

  • February 6, 2012
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  •   /   Written by andy

Although none of us have fixie bikes, and only one of us wears jeans that threaten our ability to father children, we have moved to the heart of trendy East London – Shoreditch! Saying goodbye to the old faces at Paddington (Leeroy in particular), was an emotional experience but we

SEO in 2022: What have TV and Films Taught Us?

  • February 6, 2012
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  •   /   Written by andy

Writing about what SEO will look like in 10 years is a difficult proposition. Had I been in this situation 10 years previously I’m not sure I would’ve predicted the search world being influenced by my Dad sharing photos of the dog he looks after, or me being at the

Red or Blue is moving!

We have moved!  Check here for the update! Up, up and away! Red or Blue is moving to bigger, better offices because we’re now bigger and better – also because Kun told us to. Follow our progress on the map below – we’ll provide a full update later today:

2022: An SEO’s Odyssey

This is my entry into the SEO Chicks competition – SEO the next generation How do you even begin to predict where an entire industry will be in 10 years time…especially an industry that is already as flexible, changeable and temperamental as a Hollywood starlet? The fact is, nobody really

What SOPA means for SEO

Yesterday, many sites across the net protested against the much-talked-about Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, by blacking out their site. The most notable, of course, was the Wikipedia blackout, which brought the world’s ability to find out pointless facts to a grinding halt, and stopped thousands of schoolchildren worldwide

5 things I learned in 5 weeks of SEO

  • January 12, 2012
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  •   /   Written by andy

I initially started at Red or Blue as an intern working for 5 weeks.  My only exposure to SEO had been the SEOmoz beginners guide and some very, very basic work in my previous job.  These first five weeks taught me a lot, and when I was asked to write

Google launches personal & social search….now I just need some friends.

Yesterday, Google launched their much-talked-about social search functionality, which much more tightly links their core search product with Orkut, no wait Google Buzz, erm  Google+, their latest folly…I mean social network. Easy-to-make jokes at Google’s expense aside, this new development is Kind Of A Big Deal. Others have already blogged about the functionality that

Building Links with Lego

  • December 16, 2011
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  •   /   Written by Shaun Myandee

Lego is awesome. Let’s just get that out of the way right from the start, just so we’re all singing from the same hymn (or carol, if you want to be seasonally appropriate) sheet. But it seems that everyone on the internet really really loves almost anything to do with

What does the Google ad placement reshuffle mean for SEO?

So a couple of weeks ago, Google announced that they were updating the overall UI, design and layout of their SERPs on the AdWords blog . Their stated aims are to improve the user experience by making the page “flow” better, allowing them to scan the page from top to