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As I reported yesterday at Search Engine Land with Google Changes Ranking Advice, Says Build Quality Sites Not Links - Google made a change to their messaging on the ranking article help document. This was first spotted by @Baeumlisberger and it is an important change...

Following on from Craig’s post yesterday …. Let’s say for example I wanted to take down a competitor, in this case it’s my site David Naylor and the keyword is DaveN, Firstly I could quickly log into Ahrefs and collect some data, mainly linking to...

The copy you use in your sign-up form has direct impact on your sign-up rate. If you’re not actively working on getting the most out of your form copy, you’re leaving leads and money on the table.

In this post, I’ll give you practical tips on how to optimize your form copy for maximum conversion. And, as usual, I’m going to give you a bunch of concrete examples from real A/B tests. Dude – We don’t want to fill out your form!

I don’t know about you, but personally I don’t get up in the...

While just about anything you do with your site that makes it seem spammy (such as keyword stuffing, for example) would also make it seem less trustworthy, Google now looks beyond just the obvious.

Sometimes it’s the little things you notice, like today, in the UK search results I noticed what I thought was just a Google clustering mess up but sadly it wasn’t. Search in Google.co.uk for seo jobs or even hgv drivers jobs Now in Ripon I’m seeing...

Jay Cassano did an excellent interview with Nate Bolt, who is in charge of design research at Facebook. My favorite part from Secrets From Facebook’s Mobile UX Testing Team:

We try to never deliver any reports ever, if possible. Reports can’t attend meetings and they can’t argue in favor of their findings. They die in the wastebasket immediately. So we’ll bring up some data in a session, we brainstorm on a whiteboard, absorb some of the human patterns of the people that are using this...

There is a lot of new chatter in the WebmasterWorld forums, along with random threads at other forums including Google Webmaster Help about Google's search results shifting around and some webmasters claiming huge declines in referrals from Google starting around 8pm EDT last night.
Some are hoping it was just an Analytics issue...

Folks at Google get cold-call emails out of the blue just like everybody else. Here’s an email that a colleague of mine got recently:

I was on your website www.google.com and wanted to shoot you a quick note. I think I can make a few changes (aesthetically and/or SEO – wise) to make your site convert more visitors into leads and to get it placed higher in the organic search results, for a few of the select terms.

This is NOT like one of those foreign emails you probably get in your inbox...

Google AdSense is ten years old today and Google wants everyone to know about it - as they should. AdSense has given Google a way to bring in a nice and sizable secondary source of income...