Posted by Tom Pool on May 4, 2018
On Friday 27th April 2018, I spoke at one of the UK’s largest SEO events – BrightonSEO, kicking off the day as part of an awesome Technical SEO Session with Emily Mace from Oban Digital (who talked about utilising Hreflang) and Tom Anthony from Distilled (who covered HTTP/2) also speaking. This was the first time […]
…Posted by Tom Pool on March 10, 2018
Here at Blue Array we crawl a large number of websites which vary massively in size; typically they can be anything from 100 to 1 million+ pages. For smaller websites we use a couple of different crawlers; Screaming Frog and Sitebulb. However, when we need to crawl really really big websites (i.e. with millions of […]
…Posted by Kim Dewe on January 18, 2018
5 Essential SEO Tools I’ll Be Using in 2018 When it comes to finding the right search engine optimisation (SEO) tools for the job we’re fortunately spoilt for choice. Whether you’re looking solely for free tools or you have some budget to spend on a tool offering premium features, there are tools to serve even the […]
…Posted by Tom Pool on November 2, 2017
How to remove duplicates from Google Sheets using Mac OS’s terminal. We have recently come across a few issues while using Google Sheets & Excel to process large amounts of keyword data; namely to combine and deduplicate competitor data when doing a keyword gap analysis. Doing this sort of process within Google Sheets can take […]
…Posted by Luci Wood on October 30, 2017
A recent tweet by Google Webmasters, picked up by the ever-vigilant Barry Schwartz in a Search Engine Roundtable article, suggested that the hreflang attribute should not be implemented when the pages only include minor regional changes. In this instance – differences in the currency used across multiple English language speaking pages. However, on Google’s […]
…Posted by Simon Schnieders on October 23, 2017
Caroline Wilson has had a stratospheric career to date. From SEO executive at Zoopla the £1bn IPO unicorn where she transitioned to Search Manager and then Performance Marketing Manager, she then went to Movebubble as their CMO and Bizzby as their Head of Digital Growth. Not entirely satisfied with the world of marketing Caroline […]
…Posted by Simon Schnieders on October 8, 2017
Google have removed First Click Free (FCF) as a requirement for walled content in News and Search citing that publishers know what strategy works for them. Google now actively encouraging publishers to experiment with different free sampling schemes, as long as they stay within the updated webmaster guidelines. We reached out to Google representatives to […]
…Posted by Luci Wood on October 4, 2017
Google have been making big changes to Search Console over the last couple of months, including the introduction of a completely revamped Index Coverage Status report. Webmasters have always been able to access information about the number of webpages that are indexed on Google through Search Console’s Index Status Report. However the new feature (which […]
…Posted by Tom Pool on September 11, 2017
SEO understanding level – Basic to Medium There have been a significant number of recent updates within the world of SEO web crawling software. Of particular note, Screaming Frog released the latest version of their crawling software – updated to incorporate a fresher, more visual appearance.
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