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Anybody who’s ever got some traction on Reddit or Hacker News is familiar with the so-called “Reddit effect” when your site gets overwhelmed with referred traffic. Some sites in certain verticals are even able to convert this traffic. However, everybody also knows how strict Reddit is when it comes to spam submissions. Hacker News, on…

I had the pleasure to speak at this month’s Pint Sized Marketing in Dublin. If you’re an SEO in Ireland, or just need an excuse for a quick trip to Dublin, Pint Sized Marketing is a very worthy free event to attend run by the same organisers as the must-see Irish marketing conference Learn Inbound…

The idea of my last BrightonSEO talk was born out of a dinner discussion between a few SEO friends after the previous BrightonSEO. We all agreed that Bing doesn’t get the attention it deserves, quite a few of us have switched to using it full time as the default search engine for their personal needs,…

Google has recently added a new feature to its SERPs where, if a user searches for something and visits one of the first page results then clicks back to the SERPs (a.k.a. “short click”), a box will be shown under the visited result with search suggestions, similar to those we have been seeing at the…

While researching an aged domain before buying typically goes without saying, most people seem to be more relaxed about buying new domains – and sometimes come to regret it later. While the idea of unknowingly “inheriting” a previous owner’s problems is nothing new – I’ve had a client ages ago who bought a domain they…

Here is a quick chart to help you figure out. (Click for larger size)

(Not just another Google Help rehash post) Verifying a site in Google Search Console may seem like a pretty straightforward procedure not requiring a dedicated post but there are details you might want to be aware of if you aren’t yet. Also, considering some scams going around, it doesn’t hurt to know what to watch…

If you’re a site owner running a WordPress site with a Google Webmaster Tools Search Console account attached to it, or an SEO taking care of one or a few sites like this, you’re sure to have been spammed by received a message like this from Google recently:

Recently, I’ve got a complaint from somebody I’ve been consulting about their site having been a target of scammers trying to extort money out of them by threatening to destroy their business online. Given the recent news of mass extortion emails (and Google’s reluctant reaction), it’s difficult to surprise anyone with a story like this,…

One of the recent big news of the SEO world that some connect to the Panda 4.0 update has been the drop of many press release sites. Indeed, if we look even at something as generic as “press release” SERPs, this is what we see: