SEO Blog by Dave Naylor - SEO Tools, Tips & News

Link Risk Analysis Process Made Easy With Link Detox

Alex Graves — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:16:07 +0000

With the Google Penguin update (branded as 2.0 or 4 depending on the scoring you are following) hanging over the world of SEO and being set to roll out within the next 8 days, the need to take a step back from the promotion of your website in order to take action on the foundation [...]

Speaking at SMX London – May 15th 2013

David Naylor — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:03:33 +0000

On Wednesday I will be heading back to Chelsea Football Club to speak at SMX London. As a Leeds United fan I used to go to Chelsea’s ground many years ago for away matches, but lots has changed since those days I’m speaking on a panel with the topic, “Is Link Building Still Crucial, Or [...]

Google Penguin to go to War with SENuke Style Link Building

Alex Graves — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:52:15 +0000

With the prospect of the latest addition of Google Penguin to become a reality within the next few weeks, it seems that many SEO’s and site owners are speculating towards what could be included into the previous focus of the update in order to warrant the upcoming update being called a “new generation” of Google [...]

Spreadsheets for SEO: Filtering Google Webmaster Tools Data by Domain

David Whitehouse — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:41:53 +0000

Hey all, I tend to be the guy everyone comes to for Excel help at Bronco, so I thought I’d start doing posts on solving some of the most common issues I find popup being an SEO. This may well have been talked about before by other bloggers, but it may be new to a [...]

Brand Search As A Ranking Signal – A Study

David Whitehouse — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:58:30 +0000

I was having a look at one of my client’s rankings in the Home & Garden sector recently, and I found that although their rankings hadn’t changed *that much* the SERPs had changed completely. Where there were previously small businesses competing with them, this had now been replaced with big name brands. And it occurred [...]

Google Are Testing Layout Changes – Green Arrow Dropdown

David Whitehouse — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:25:47 +0000

As you can see from the screenshot above, the green dropdown arrow appears at the side of the URL and contains “Cached”, “Similar” and “Share” links. Interestingly – this appears to get rid of the Google Instant Previews… Here is a slightly larger image, which may be a bit clearer:

Google Link Disavow Tool – What, When, Why?

Alex Graves — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:54:28 +0000

As one of the original testers of the Google disavow tool found in Webmaster Tools, we were able to see a website be lifted out of a Google enforced unnatural links penalty and start to show a claw back of search engine visibility following the news that the site had seen the penalisation revoked. I [...]

Google Admit That Too Many New Pages At Once Could Cause Manual Review

Alex Graves — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:49:02 +0000

We are all aware that Google have revealed that they are looking for websites to stay fresh and to keep the content of their site related to what their site is focusing on but in the latest video with Matt Cutts, an interesting question was raised surrounding the creation of large quantities of pages being [...]