As I have posted on Twitter already, I am speaking at BrightonSEO this Friday (April 12th). The talk is called Negative SEO: Myths and Reality but as this is part of the “Lightning Talks” session it’s only 7 minutes so it’s designed mainly to shed some light on the existing myths concerning negative SEO. Negative [...]
As of today, at least some of Interflora’s rankings are back, just in time for Mother’s Day. It’s been about two weeks since Interflora got penalised by Google. Here is what I am seeing with location set to UK: Keyword Google.co.uk position Google.co.uk URL interflora 1 www.interflora.co.uk/ flowers 10 www.interflora.co.uk/ roses 10 www.interflora.co.uk/category/roses/ balloon bouquet [...]
Since Martin Macdonald broke the news about Interflora’s penalty there have been a lot of discussions and speculations as to what might have caused it. Since Google refuses to comment, each one of all these guesses is as good as the next one but Bronco’s version about the advertorials in the local news sites seems [...]
Searching for any specific class of WordPress plugins is no easy task. As surprising as it may sound, it is true. There are several reasons for this. WordPress plugin directory currently lists a total 23,245 plugins, which wouldn’t be a problem if they were better classified – but there is actually no proper classification to [...]
Recently I got a heads up from my friend Earl Grey that one of the sites I control is marked as infected with malware in Google. I got on the case and within a couple days the issue has been sorted out successfully. The case, however, has inspired me to post about sites getting infected [...]
One of the SEO services I have been offering for many years are SEO security audits. With all the recent talk about increased risks of negative SEO (Penguin making it even more of a real threat supposedly) and even Google finally caving in to recognise that negative SEO is a real threat, the need for [...]
No, I am not talking about the infamous Fail Whale. And moreover, the big news is that it looks like the biggest fail of the last 5 years has just been fixed – but not due to Twitter’s efforts. Twitter is huge, this is not news to anyone. A site:twitter.com search in Google returns 1,750,000,000 [...]
Yahoo has just killed its old API. They said they would so this is not really a surprise. All the tools dependent on it are now down. Bad news is that I, like many other tool developers, will now have to rewrite my tools like this one. Good news is that there is a bunch [...]
A quick heads-up for those of you who have bought my directory ebook: following the Google toolbar PageRank update, I am going to release the updated ebook soon. Even though Google itself now tells webmasters not to obsess over Pagerank, PR still has its valid uses and besides, I have a promise to keep. So [...]
Yesterday everybody wasn’t talking about much else other than the royal wedding, even in the SEO/SEM context. So I thought I’d look at the SERPs for the “royal wedding” and see what interesting can an SEO learn from these. First of all, you can imagine that with the amount of attention the even has received, [...]
