What is SEO? Is it a technical discipline that involves auditing website structures, researching search volumes & conversion rates, assessing code and sorting out URLs? Or is it a creative process leveraging brand power, content placement, working to establish online …
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Last week it was Friday the 13th, so according to cliché it would be sombre day involving a lot of bad luck. This time though it was a lovely sunny day… and of course the day of BrightonSEO April 2012.

One of the most popular SEO tools when it comes to discovering competitors backlink data will cease to exist later today. Since its launch in 2005, Yahoo Site Explorer – one of the first tools to report on backlinks, became …
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As search marketers, our job essentially boils down to capturing demand; we try to be visible when users are heading towards a purchase, and hope that they decide to make that purchase with us. Increasingly though, we are becoming aware as …
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This month Google’s 2011 quarter three financial earnings results have been reported to be 33% up on the same quarter last year. Contributing to this increase has been acquisitions and new products released. So as a bit of fun this …
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Last Tuesday Google announced that they would send Google.com users that were signed in to a secured version of Google which would prevent 3rd party sites from receiving keyword data relating to the organic search query that was conducted. SEOmoz …
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Bing has recently announced that they are using the Meta Keywords as a signal. This was missed originally by a number of people as it was not through the official channels as Search Engine Land describes in its post. The …
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Yesterday Google rolled out two new features to Google+ Search. This now includes results in real time and supports hashtags. Real-time search Now when you search in Google+, you’ll see a message about new posts the instant they’re available. If …
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Following on from our previous article “How does Bing manage redirects – 301s, 302s and the canonical tags?” Nick Roshon answers the question “How does Google handle the canonical tag?” Considering both search engines are supposed to treat the canonical …
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Bing is working on improving the back end of its search engine with a project called Tiger. Yongdong Wang, general manager of Microsoft’s Search Technology Center in Asia in an interview said “In Tiger, we not only look at improved …
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