In the last couple of months, various studies and blog posts have cropped up regarding the SEO performance of large (super) brands. These posts and studies all show pretty much the same thing; lots of super brands don’t rank for diddly squat in the organic search engine results. US brands In an article over at Advertising Age, [...]

Part 1 – Introduction Earlier this year, there were a spate of posts regarding Google’s Search Suggestions and how utterly, utterly terrible they are for UK users. I’m talking about both the AJAX suggestion feature when entering a search term (AKA Google Suggest) and the “did you mean” suggestions once you have searched. Some of the [...]

Let’s suppose you have a website. And let’s also suppose it’s not yet large enough for you to commit to in-house SEO resources, but you think ranking higher in Google for some organic search terms would probably be a good idea. More traffic can lead to more sales and if you’ve never done any SEO work, [...]

On April 28th, Manchester will be hosting the inaugural SAScon event, and I’ll be there. I must admit, I  didn’t even know this event existed until recently; I think I read some murmurings on Twitter and had a poke about on the SAScon website. Once I’d read up a bit, the plan was to just send my colleague Phil from our development [...]

It’s one of the oldest SEO questions out there. Basically it went Should I use commas in my meta keywords? and then this was the next big question. OK, maybe I’ve skipped 1 or 2 questions in between, but I swear someone has asked this every single year at SES London since 2006 (and no doubt at every other search conference too), so I [...]