3 link building tactics to improve your link profile
Backlinks are one of the most important search ranking factors. According to a search study by Ahrefs, there is a clear correlation between the amount of backlinks a site has and the amount of organic traffic driving to the site. Therefore, link building should…
Google User Experience Update – What You Need To Know
What Is It? Google has pre-announced a “User Experience” update to its organic search algorithm. This update will affect how websites rank on Google. Google values user experience on the websites in its search results, as it views them as an extension of Google’s own…
New Google Page Experience Update – Core Web Vitals
Early in May 2020, Google announced Core Web Vitals – an initiative to provide unified guidance for quality signals that, they believe, are essential to delivering a great user experience on the web. This was the first part of their focus on user experience for…
Preparing For Free Google Shopping In Q4
“Google’s Big Announcement” In April this year Google announced that free listings will be available in Shopping results. Starting in the US and set to continue to roll-out to other countries and will be available in the UK before the end of the year. Only…
‘Amazonification’ & Amazon SEO: Should Search Marketers Be Worried?
Amazon is the largest marketplace the world has ever seen. This is an internet retailing giant that continues to thrive. This is one of the largest websites in the world that receives an enormous amount of traffic on an hourly basis. It has even created…
SEO in a time of Crisis – Staying ahead of the curve with link building
Covid-19 has overturned everyone’s lives. Each industry is affected differently, but most marketing plans are being interrupted. Businesses are responding by refocusing efforts and adjusting to new consumer behaviours. In a previous Tug post, we discussed the importance of keeping customers updated and your SEO…
Keeping your customers (and your SEO!) up to date in a crisis
Coronavirus content is everywhere and updated in real time. With consumers spending more time online, whilst at home, they expect to be able to find essential up-to-date information from businesses too. It’s imperative that businesses understand customer queries (as they likely will have changed significantly!)…
Three Weeks Into A Global Pandemic: Planning for The Future
It’s been three weeks since W.H.O. declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic and a lot has changed. We don’t want to repeat the details of everything that has happened, but instead help you plan for the future. Consumer Behaviour Changes by Channel PPC: Search demands (and…
Brighton SEO – What to look forward to
BrightonSEO brings together some of the best speakers from the world of search marketing and is an event highlight for many SEOs. An important point to note – BrightoSEO is big. Really big. The event has around 75 talks across the Saturday and the last…
7 tips for first-timers at BrightonSEO
This coming BrightonSEO will be my third time attending the event, which by no means makes me an expert. However, it does mean I can recall when I myself was a first-timer. Now with two events under my belt, I have valuable wisdom to impart…