The Google Caffeine Update - What's it all about

November 12, 2009 by Dave Freeman  
Filed under Featured, SEO

There’s been a huge amount of hype around Google Caffeine since the sandbox was launched and again when Google announced that Caffeine was gradually going to be rolled out. Has there been too much hype for a change that Google have assured us shouldn’t seriously impact rankings? Andrew Girdwood explores that question on [...]

Google Brand Update Arrives in the UK

June 30, 2009 by Dave Freeman  
Filed under Featured, SEO

Back in March 2009 Google rolled out it's brand update in the US, otherwise known as the Vince Update. It now seems that over the weekend (27th/28th June) this brand update was rolled out in the UK. For a few weeks now the UK SERPs have been a complete mess and no-one really [...]

Bing Arrives on a Wave

June 1, 2009 by Dave Freeman  
Filed under Featured, General

Just in case it slipped passed you, the week beginning 25th May saw the long awaited launch of Bing, Microsoft's new search engine and Wave, Google's new communications platform. Now when I said launch neither service actually launched, it turned out to be more of an official unveiling. Microsoft made their unveil date [...]

2008 SEO Review

January 12, 2009 by Dave Freeman  
Filed under Featured, SEO, social media

As expected 2008 saw a lot of developments and changes in the world of SEO: Google Google to no surprise was fairly active in 2008, we saw the launch of SearchWiki, the launch of its "search based keyword tool" and its stand against paid links taken to the next level. Searchwiki With the launch of searchwiki Google gave power [...]

The Face Of SEO Is Changing Are You?

December 22, 2008 by Dave Freeman  
Filed under Featured, SEO, social media

For many years a large proportion of SEO's have relied on paid links to boost their search engine rankings, over the years this has been made easier and easier through paid link brokers and sites offering paid blog posts and reviews. 2008 has really been a turning point for search engine optimisation with Google's [...]