Keyword Research Update Part 1

Keyword research is a part of Linkdex we’ve wanted to return to and enhance for a long time. Today is the first of a series of releases that sees our vision for this area take shape. We want to accomplish a number of things in the first part of the release. Keyword Research – Give you access more

Ask the Engines Panel at BrightonSEO

This morning BrightonSEO kicked off with a panel discussion on Search Engines hosted by Pierre Far, Dave Colpin, Martin McDonald, Rishi Lakhani and Tony Goldstone. These search engine experts were happy to answer the audience’s questions, many of which were sharp and relevant. The Questions The session started with a question which seems to be on everybody’s lips more

Maximising Your SEO Agencies

Today a thousand SEOs and marketers have been engaged with a string of fast paced, insightful talks at the UK search conference BrightonSEO. After lunch James Owen from hotels.com gave a presentation that wasn’t necessarily the most pacey or groundbreaking, but covered an important topic for the industry: how to maximise your relationship with SEO more

What Google’s Semantics Update Will Mean For SEOs

A few weeks ago Google started to release information stating that it would gradually move away from the traditional search model, where a query is answered by a list of links, and more into the business of actually giving information to the user, gleaned from the contents of the webpages that would otherwise be getting more

The Client from Hell

A Linkdex Stories Animation from Simon Heseltine: This sketch is an amalgamation of customer discussions that I may or may not have heard over the years. Obviously some of them have been slightly exaggerated (no ducks were harmed in reality), but the intent of this video is to get across some of the education gaps that more

Reporting universal search results and more from today

I can hear many of you take a sigh of relief and I’m sorry it has taken so long. But the good news is it’s here now. Universal search results are now reported along with rankings. From today you can see more

BrightonSEO Script Competition

On Friday 13th April digital marketing professionals will be treated to yet another leading search conference: BrightonSEO. Earlier this month as part of the SES New York conference we ran a competition asking for scripts of SEO industry stories. We received so many fantastic entries that we have decided to launch another script competition in the more

Submit Your SEO Stories to Win $250

Do you have a great SEO story? If so, we want to hear from you. We are looking for scripts about the world of SEO that we can animate into videos as part of our ongoing #LinkdexStories series. Each script we animate (we hope to animate lots during 2012) will win $250 and be uploaded onto more

Pinterest for Unphotogenic Brands

Appearance is an ever important part of online sharing. The popularity of viral videos, memes and infographics serve as a reminder that content should be visually engaging. And this is perhaps why Pinterest – the new kid on the social block – is growing so quickly. There have been lots of great posts about Pinterest recently, more

3 Rules: What not to do as an SEO

Linkdex Stories Competition Winner Alex Moss: In the 5+ years I have worked in SEO I met many people through networking. However, there’s another side to working in SEO – the lack of understanding and acknowledgement by powers sometimes outside your grasp. This may include the client who knows nothing about SEO, or the issues that more