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DMCA request kills Moz in Google Search index

May 8, 2022 chris 0

A little while ago I wrote about how easy it was to launch a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) complaint against a website and how writers and other creatives could use this to get websites […]

Digital Marketing and SEO News

Bigger boys made me do it: Why copying “leaders” is sometimes a bad idea

April 22, 2022 chris 0

If you’ve worked for any serious amount of time in eCommerce or digital marketing, you’ll have come across a client who wants to copy functionality or design from another company. They probably also think it’s […]

Content for SEO

Confirmed: AI-Generated Content Is Against Google’s Guidelines

April 16, 2022 chris 0

Throughout my career in digital marketing, there were a few rules that I always held to be immutable. One of them was this – If you can automate it, it’s probably SPAM. This rule steered […]

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How Google’s Pirate Update can kill off sites stealing your content

February 24, 2022 chris 0

Google has revealed that it now has a specific penalty that it applies to sites that receive repeated upheld DCMA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) takedown requests. In other words, it has a special button it […]

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Facebook vs. Google vs. You: How your privacy became the ball everyone’s fighting over

February 22, 2022 chris 0

It’s common knowledge that Facebook (or “Meta” if you prefer) likes to track you around the internet, seeing where you go, what you look at, and then use that information to help target advertising. It’s […]

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Picking a Domain Name When There’s No SEO Bonus For Keyword-Based Domains

February 17, 2022 chris 0

In a boost for digital agencies with names like “Tangarine Kangaroo” or “Excessive Aubergine”, brands that took the name of a thing and just shoved “ly” or “ify” on the end, and former digital marketing […]

Architecture for SEO

Google Says Code To Text Ratio Has Never Been An SEO Factor… but is that really true?

February 9, 2022 chris 0

Moments of clarity from Google are rare, so it’s nice to when they come out and say something simple and unambiguous like The code to text ratio is not, and never has been, a factor […]

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Christopher’s Big SEO Experiment: Getting Started

January 21, 2022 chris 2

Changes are afoot in my online presence. After some four years or more of managing multiple websites for my various projects I’ve finally broken down and decided that enough is enough. Going back maybe five […]

Digital Marketing and SEO News

Did the web get to big for Google to Google?

January 21, 2022 chris 0

In their article “Google Considers Reducing Webpage Crawl Rate“, Search Engine Journal reported that Google may soon visit websites to look for new and updated content a lot less frequently than it currently does. It’s […]

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Google’s John Mueller gives… Jurassic Park SEO Advice?

December 4, 2021 chris 0

The Jurassic Park Test was one of the first pieces of SEO advice I wrote. It was one of the first chapters I wrote for The Truth About SEO and one of the first videos […]

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