Finally it’s landed! After much speculation it was announced yesterday that Google Instant was going to be launched today and true to their word here it is. (more…)

It appears as though Google have changed the way it display rankings for some major brands. Normally Google would only display two rankings for site for a given search query however if you perform a search on BBC News for example you can now see up to 10 pages listed in the SERPS for the same domain similar to what you would see with the site:search function. (more…)

Microsoft and Yahoo both warned yesterday that the two companies have began testing their search partnership. (more…)

Choosing a CMS is one of the most important aspects in web design and development. Choosing the wrong CMS can be costly and can result in a lot of upheaval work or in a worst case scenario a change to whole new CMS. The following is a quick checklist to take into account when choosing a CMS in today’s search driven market. (more…)

Link baiting falls under the task of link building and simply aims to increase the quantity of relevant links to a wesite.
The straightforward meaning of link baiting is encouraging others to link to you.
Matt Cutts from Google defined it as anything “interesting enough to catch people’s attention”.
Link baiting is all about gaining reputation and constant effort is the key. It might take months or even years to get noticed but if you are persistent people will be talking about your content soon. (more…)

In today’s post I want to go over some WordPress SEO plugins.
There are many tweaks you can make to further optimise your blog for search engines.
Here are 10 of the best SEO plugins you can install to help choosing the right tags, avoid content duplication, optimize your post titles and more. (more…)

Internal linking when done correctly can have a massive impact to your SEO campaign. Not so long ago Page Rank sculpting was all the rage and was at the forefront of most SEO’s internal linking strategy. Although the game has since changed there are still some aspects to consider that will help make your site interlinking that bit more efficient. (more…)

Google appear to be testing a new feature on their search results pages which displays recommended brands for certain search queries. Malcolm Coles was the first to report on this and used ‘digital cameras’ as an example. (more…)