July 11, 2016
If you’re new to web analytics or GA, you probably don’t realise the number highlighted below doesn’t mean what you think it says: I’ve found +90% of people I’ve worked with in digital marketing interpret this metric as “On average, the time spent by users per visit session is 2 minutes and 31 seconds (in […]
October 18, 2015
In 2009 Rand Fishkin wrote a blog post entitled Terrible SEO Advice: Focus on Users, Not Engines. The post generated over 170 comments of discussion, and illustrates how periniall the question: “What is SEO?” – has been in the history of the industry. Alternative titles for this debate include: “SEO is Dead” “Focus on User […]
August 9, 2015
Click the image to see the full size map Inspired by xkcd’s map of online communities. Links to everything referenced in this map
May 30, 2015
Which one are you? 1. The Rand Fishkin “*Sigh* How can I get my clients to stop thinking about links? Why don’t they get that SEO is so much more than just keywords? I’m a digital marketer, I don’t even ‘do’ SEO anymore – I’m way better than that. Lol keywords in the page title […]
May 16, 2015
I sat down with Google’s Gary Illyes at SMX Sydney 2015 for a quick Q & A. Question: Why didn’t we see a bigger effect in search results following the April 21 mobile friendly update? Gary Illyes: The term ‘mobilegeddon’, coined after it was suggested the effect of the mobile friendly would be bigger than Penguin and […]
March 21, 2015
In my earlier post on using <noscript> tags for ensuring good SEO when using lazy loaded images, we observed that Google is able to properly crawl, index and will rank pages for keywords inside alt tags contained within <noscript>. This gave me an idea to see if Google would do the same for <noscript> tags even […]
March 20, 2015
Is Google testing a ‘reading time’ metric to display as a search result rich snippet? Spotted this today: Here’s a closer look: Tweet this screenshot If you are wondering, it’s just coincidence that I happened to be performing research on schema, though this fact might have made it more likely I’d notice what is a fairly […]
March 15, 2015
Looking for my SEO experiment on original content? Check out 45wn343on Does Lazy Loading Images Hurt SEO? TLDR: No. Important Update! Make sure you read my super popular related post on using noscript to add keywords even when there is no associated image – the results were pretty amazing Lazy loading is a technique to defer […]
December 9, 2014
[custom_headline type=”left, center, right” level=”h2″ looks_like=”h5″ accent=”true”] What is Prerendering?[/custom_headline] Via Google developer docs Prerendering is an experimental feature in Chrome (versions 13 and up) that can take hints from a site’s author to speed up the browsing experience of users. It’s a bit like Firefox’ prefetching feature aimed at speeding up page load speeds by […]
June 22, 2014
Update: 25/06/2014 So, ASOS brought their site back online pretty quickly after writing this article, and before Google was able to display a cache of a website with no content on it. Original Article If you know an online savvy female in Australia between the ages of 16-35, there’s a good bet they have at […]