Mobile Friendly? We've All Heard It

SEO in 2019 – Brian Says It Best

Each year we get new "SEO in 2019" type posts from SEO's around the world. These usually come right at the start of the year, or at the end of the previous year, meaning a lot of them are just clickbait and are more about 'predicting' the future, than the actual state of play. SEO evolves all the time. Reading one of these articles each year doesn't make you an SEO expert, but I always look out for articles by Brian Dean of Backlinko.com. Brian talks ... Read More >

Mobile First Indexing Rolled Out by Google

On Monday 26th March 2018 Google announced, via it's Webmasters blog, that Mobile First Indexing is now being rolled out. What is Mobile First Indexing? In a nutshell, Mobile First Indexing goes like this... Google ranks websites in search based on a number of factors. Without going into too much detail, Google rewards sites which deliver unique, relevant, engaging content, matched with excellent usability. Up until now, Google has used the content from the DESKTOP version of a website when deciding on indexing and ranking pages ... Read More >

Go Web = Google Certified!

Google Mobile Sites Certification - Google Partners I'm very pleased to announce that we are now 'Mobile Site Certified' by Google, meaning we have been recognised as a qualified developer of mobile-friendly websites. Of course, we've been building great mobile-friendly, responsive sites for years now, but this new certification from Google only started early in 2017 so we've just made it official! During the course and exam, we answered questions about all of the latest technologies, design techniques and up-to-date recommendations from Google when it comes ... Read More >

Google Search Algorithms

What Are Google Search Algorithms? The Google Search algorithms are the computer-programmed calculations that look at websites and decide where to rank them in search engine results pages (SERPs). Over the years, Google has launched hundreds of updates to it's algorithms, and has even split the algorithms out in order to target particular behaviour in SEO by Webmasters, searchers and website owners. These specific algorithms are usually named afters animals. Google Panda - First Introduced 2011 Google Panda placed more emphasis on good quality content, rather ... Read More >

SEO in 2017 & What We Learned in 2016

Happy New Year to all our clients, readers and fellow Webmasters! I hope 2017 brings you all the success you deserve. In this post I talk about SEO in 2017. What's new, what's real and what we learned from in terms of SEO in 2016. First things first, I must give credit to moz.com, whose article 'SEO & Digital Trends in 2017' is the inspiration for this article. I am a big fan of Moz founder Rand Fishkin, and have been reading this SEO Guru's work for years ... Read More >

AMP, Rich Cards & Improvements to the Google Mobile App

I'm guessing that most of you reading this will make use of the Google Mobile App on your smartphones? If so, you will have noticed some handy (sometimes annoying) new items on your Google home page. These items, known as Rich Cards, display content that is relevant to you, based on information from websites you have previously visited. What do the changes to the Google Mobile App mean to website owners? This new feature in Google could be very important to website owners when it comes ... Read More >

Mobile First Indexing

Huge news this week from Google! Your website search performance will now be based on the content from the MOBILE VERSION of your website. What Does This Mean? As we've explained before, the content on your website has a huge impact on where you appear in search results. Previously, Google has used the content from your desktop website to judge how good your site is. Google is now going to be using the content from the mobile version of your site instead. How Does It Affect Me? In ... Read More >

Reflecting on 2015; the year of the ‘mobile-friendly’ Google update

In the first of a series of end-of-year blog entries, I wanted to talk about one of the biggest changes in the history of Google Search - the 'mobile friendly' update. On 21st April 2015, Google made changes to it's search algorithm, which meant web pages that were 'mobile-friendly' were favoured in mobile search results. This meant that Google would look at the code from a web page and identify if it was easy to use on a mobile device, such as a Smartphone. Google uses a number of factors ... Read More >

Mobile Friendly? We’ve All Heard It – What Does it Mean?