On the 27th of December, 2016, a Google Webmaster Central Hangout was held, whereby John Mueller from Google Switzerland answered a number of important questions with regards to Google’s algorithm. A lot of these questions have been floating around for a…
SERPTrends SEO Extension – Useful Free Extension
There are a lot of SEO extensions available for the likes of Chrome and Firefox, but a lot of them aren’t really valuable and merely echo some basics metrics or require a paid account with a third party to extract real…
WordPress Social Plugin
How do you know if an article you write is doing well on social media? In other words, do you know which of your articles have been shared on social media? If you’re a publisher, chances are you’re using WordPress and…
WordPress.com adds new SEO functionality
WordPress has two approaches for content publishers, WordPress.com which is a cloud-based solution where you simply create an account and get publishing and WordPress.org which is a far more robust and flexible self hosted solution. There are still a huge number of…
3 Free Analytics Plugins for WordPress
Google Analytics is our choice of Analytics software and we ensure that every website we’re involved with has Google Analytics integrated. However, Google Analytics provides a huge amount of data which isn’t always ideal for everyone, especially beginners. So, we done…
Most expensive keywords for 2016
We came across a really useful and interesting tool this afternoon whilst searching around the web for some statistics on expensive keywords. Keyword Keg is a keyword browser extension (Download for Chrome | Download for Firefox) that pulls keyword data from…
New Google mobile penalty in January 2017
Google continues to put a great deal of effort into mobile search and as such we can expect algorithm updates that will target those who are doing things that hinder user experience for mobile users. Google has just announced that come…
Sub-Domain versus Sub-Directory for SEO
Although this topic has been discussed at length over the years, we were recently put on the spot about this and we went ahead and explained the process, the benefits of each scenario and what we’d suggest for the specific project…
Must-have WordPress plugins for Content Marketing
If there was ever a buzz word that everyone’s been talking about for quite some time, it’s “content marketing”. Now, sometimes “buzz word” is used to describe something that’s a hype but not really true, but in the case of content…