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Sep

19

SEO: big changes are coming to nofollow - here's what you need to know

Google is making the first big change to "nofollow" in a decade and a half. Here's what you should know.

Sep 19, 2019

4 min read

Jul

27

SEOs buying up defunct URLs linked to by major news sites

The black hat SEO business has a new trick - and publishers should be careful of their old links.

Jul 27, 2019

2 min read

Dec

15

Accelerated Mobile Pages: great for SEO, bad for control

John Gruber, back in October: Can someone explain to me why a website would publish AMP versions of their articles?

Dec 15, 2016

2 min read

Dec

06

Fake news is just the tip of the propaganda iceberg

Fake news is Facebook’s problem, right? Well, maybe it’s a touch bigger than that. Maybe Google has the

Dec 6, 2016

2 min read

Oct

20

Google search goes mobile first - desktop database relegated

Google is going to make its forthcoming mobile search index its primary dataset: Google is going to create a separate

Oct 20, 2016

1 min read

Oct

22

Why does The Telegraph want social and search specialists?

Slightly baffling post on Guido today: The Telegraph has suffered an exodus of seasoned reporters yet there is good news

Oct 22, 2015

1 min read

Oct

09

How Google helped Buzzfeed catch the social media bug

There’s a rather famous graph of Buzzfeed’s traffic kicking around. I’ve used it a bunch of times

Oct 9, 2014

1 min read

Mar

22

Facebook: pay for eyeballs or get social

The Facebook game has changed, and anyone who is surprised hasn’t been paying attention. Social@Ogilvy published research showing

Mar 22, 2014

3 min read

Jul

31

Do you publish press releases? You need to know this…

Do you publish press releases on a section of your site? If so – you need to nofollow those links: Throughout

Jul 31, 2013

Jan

29

Facebook's dirty data

Interesting argument that Facebook’s graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebook’s data is dirty: It

Jan 29, 2013