Veteran Digital Marketing Consultant
I still have a book from my primary school called “Words & Pictures”. In it are pages of a 5 year olds’ drawings and writing. By the age of 11 I’d won both a writing and an art competition for the school and got ourselves a mention in the Essex Chronicle. At 15 I’d completed … Read more
So WordPress SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is what you’re looking for? Well, here’s some expert advice from someone who has worked on WordPress for over 20 years. WordPress was originally a blogging tool but it has evolved to become a genuine all-round CMS. Personally. I found it a little clunky back in 2003, with all … Read more
What is Technical SEO? Technical SEO is the part of the search engine optimisation process where a website’s backend and technical elements are optimised to help search engines to crawl, index, and rank web pages better. What’s the Difference Between On-Page SEO and Technical SEO? On-page SEO and technical SEO are different yet complementary. On-Page … Read more
Back in the early days of the world wide web, search was far less sophisticated than it is now. You opened up one of the myriad search engines (Infoseek, Magellan, Dogpile, AOL, etc), typed in your query, and generally got a list of 10 results. That was it. And the search results weren’t always that … Read more
I have to say that I’m very appreciative of all the SEO tools I’ve used in my time in digital marketing, and there have been some very useful ones. When I first joined my last digital marketing agency 8 years ago, I used my predecessor’s recommendation of SEOMoz as it was called back then. But … Read more
Having been in the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) business for over 25 years now, there’s one vitally important concept that is sometimes overlooked: that SEO is an ongoing process and not just a “one-off” action. Now, of course I’d say that wouldn’t I? After all, I am an SEO practitioner and it’s in my best … Read more
According to a story in Search Engine Journal, it appears that Google had taken drastic action against web scrapers that harvest search results data, leading to data outages among some of the most popular SEO rank tracking tools. This move from Google caused some upset in the SEO community and, of course, if it continues, … Read more
One thing that has been challenging recently has been the increasing prevalence of AI Overviews in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). These AI Overviews are increasingly showing up in search results but not for every question. However, digital marketers ignore this trend at their peril. The way to deal with these new potentially “zero-click” searches … Read more
Back in 2020 Google reported that its AI tool SpamBrain helped its search algorithms detect 40 billion spam web pages every single day! Now? It seems to be too big a number to report…
TL;DR Generative AI has massively increased the amount of content on the web. Some people have exploited this opportunity to contribute to the sheer volume of content. Others have promoted these exploits, further increasing the reach of these methods. It’s 2008 repeating itself, when then Google CEO Eric Schmidt called the internet a “cesspool” Google … Read more