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  • Should I Use the New Google Search Console Beta?

    UPDATE 16/02/18: The Google Search Console Beta has now been expanded to include its new AMP Status Report. Read more here. Webmasters and SEOs rejoice! It’s been a long time coming, but Google has finally almost updated Google Search Console (the artist formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools). As of the 7th February 2018, Google’s […]

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  • Mythbusted: Drawbacks of AMP

    Since AMP is so heavily favoured by Google’s search engine, it’s popping up everywhere. Today, almost all of the major news outlets have adopted the AMP platform because it loads pages with lightning speed. And other sites are jumping on the bandwagon. But AMP isn’t without its drawbacks. Often, you see speed come at the […]

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  • 5 Easy Ways To Make B2B Content More Shareable

    Not Everybody Bakes for a Living! Let’s get straight to the point. You work in a niche B2B industry. You’re looking to increase your engagement and the number of backlinks to your website’s content. You’re frustrated, it seems easy for those in the B2C arena – you see examples churning out a few glossy, mouth-watering […]

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  • Google Fined £2.1bn Over Market-Warping Shopping Practices [UPDATED]

    Google has just been fined a record €2.9bn ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled Google had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison widget at the top of search results. Update 18/09/2017 Google has offered to display rival shopping comparison sites via an auction in order to comply with an […]

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  • Are You Using These 8 New Google My Business Features?

    Google have been rolling out some further features to Google My Business listings recently, meaning there’s more information available to display than ever. So, if you haven’t already, make sure you’re making use of some of these awesome features! Google Posts You may have heard about the recent launch of Google Posts, these posts sit […]

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  • Hey Alexa, How Do I Optimise For Voice Search?

    5 years ago, asking computers a question directly was the stuff of sci-fi. Today, there are 33 million voice-first devices in global circulation[1]. Voice search has the potential to have a huge affect on mobile and local search moving forward. Are you ready? In this blog we will provide practical insights on how voice search […]

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  • What Are Google Posts And Why Do You Need Them?

    Google is rolling out a new feature that could soon challenge some portions of both social media and their Knowledge Panel, which is the information that they show about a business in the top right of the results page. The new feature, dubbed “Google Posts” by the media, allows people and businesses to post content […]

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  • What Google Knows… The General Election

    Do you know how deep the Google rabbit hole goes? The things Google knows about our purchasing behaviour, personal habits and searches is truly epic in scale, but most of the time it’s hard to see just how much impact this has. Enter Google Trends. For the uninitiated, Google Trends is a web facility based […]

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  • Google and Bing Make Pirate Sites Walk The Plank

    Google and Bing have agreed to sign up to a voluntary code that will deprecate pirate websites in the SERPs. It is the result of years of discussion between media rights-holders and search engines and is expected to come into effect by the summer. Digital piracy first became an issue for the creative industry in […]

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