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Recently, SEOs found themselves facing a new reality: the invisible web. When I say invisible, I don’t mean the kind of the web that search engines like Shodan specialise in. I mean the regular web of sites and links post-Penguin and post-disavow tool. You used to look at a site’s link profile and know what…

As a follow up to my post about strange findings concerning the parliament site, I have been able to get in touch with Tracy Green who is the Head of Online Services there and she answered the questions I had for her. The questions and answers are below. Q: Have you been involved in the…

The story began with me looking at the payday loans SERPs and discovering something pretty weird in the second page: Given the recent government attempts at regulating payday loans (which have become quite a disaster both online and offline), I would have been very surprised, if not for one little detail: it is the homepage…

Those who follow me on Twitter have probably seen me posting this: Shortly after followed by this: The post in question was this review on my other blog, and apparently that blog still ranks #1 for “blackhat SEO blog”. Something I have never really cared about or been trying to achieve, but once it happened…

I woke up this morning to find my 3G on my iPad dead. I use 3. What would anybody do if something like this happens? No, not call the customer support – look on the web! (Of course if they have alternative means of accessing it, which luckily I have) Guess what – your source…

If you still think you should only be doing link audits after getting an unnatural link warning in your Webmaster Tools, or if you still have no idea what an SEO security audit is and why you need the whole thing as opposed to a link audit only, watch this slide deck. This is from…

So the much anticipated/dreaded Penguin update has been rolled out. A slew of SEOs are busy analysing the aftermath, some complaining about the sites being harmed for no reason, others complaining that the SERPs are still spammy… What will you do? Google may be employing dozens of PHDs thinking hard day and night on how…

It has become known on Saturday that WordPress blogs are under a massive attack run with the purpose of building the largest and most powerful ever botnet running on the compromised servers rather than hacked individual PCs. The common recommendations to prevent your blog from getting hacked is to have a secure password and change…

As I have posted on Twitter already, I am speaking at BrightonSEO this Friday (April 12th). The talk is called Negative SEO: Myths and Reality but as this is part of the “Lightning Talks” session it’s only 7 minutes so it’s designed mainly to shed some light on the existing myths concerning negative SEO. Negative…