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

  • February 6, 2012
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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

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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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

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

Explaining the value of Linkdex in Link Building

We’ve recently made Linkdex’s SEO tools an integral part of the SEO services we offer, because it’s proven to deliver great results for our clients. To explain why, I’m going to use a little analogy. Link Building is a bit like going to a huge antiques market. There are thousands

What the new Google sitelinks for brands, aka “Brandlinks”, mean for reputation management

You may well have noticed that Google recently changed the way they display their sitelinks, but what difference does it really make?

How SEOs can take advantage of the closure of the News of the World

It’s been nigh-on impossible to avoid the coverage of the controversy swirling around the News of the World, as they become ever more implicated in the hacking of phones belonging to people from Milly Dowler’s parents to the families of victims of the July 7th bombings. The shock and outrage

Google+ and what it means

{EAV_BLOG_VER:02c806a026996905} For a while now, we’ve noticed the spread of the “Google +1″ button as Google rolled out their rival to Facebook “Likes” both in their search results and by providing the code for webmasters to add the button to their own sites. And it has also been announced that we’ll