Google Plus (otherwise known as Google+) is shutting down over the next 10 months due to a reported security vulnerability. Although social networks have struggled with the occasional security concern, this was likely the final nail in the coffin for the struggling...
How to Change a Custom Tab or Welcome Page on Your Facebook Business Page
As discussed in our previous blog post, there have been a number of changes since we first created our popular popular video tutorial on 'How to Customise a Static HTML: (iframe) tab' as part of our series on social media marketing. We've outlined detailed guidance...
How to Install a Custom Tab or Welcome Page on Your Facebook Business Page
It’s been six years since we first created our very popular video tutorial on ‘How to install a Static HTML (iframe) tab’ as part of our series on social media marketing. However, a lot has chance since then and we thought it was time to bring our advice up-to-date...
Google’s SEO Rules & Guidelines for Link Building
Over the years, Google has produced many guidelines and documents to aid webmasters in understanding SEO and their views on link building. If you're here, you most likely want to understand what Google SEO rules and guidelines for link building exist. The issue of...
Is Buying Backlinks Safe? Do Paid Links Have a Place in Modern SEO? [UPDATED]
If you're here, it means you are asking the question, Is buying backlinks safe? Before answering that, let's answer a more fundamental question, Are backlinks important for SEO and do they improve rankings? The short answer is yes, but there are many different types...
How to Get Free Backlinks for Your Website: Our Top 10 Methods [UPDATED]
Introduction: Getting Backlinks Without Paying For Them If you're here, you will be searching for how to get backlinks for free. However, growing your SEO organically can be a slow process. There are many methods and techniques involved, which you can learn about in...
Dofollow vs Nofollow Links & SEO: The Truth About the Nofollow Tag [UPDATED]
Before we get into the nitty-gritty, it's important to understand that Nofollow is a directive for search engines, not a penalty or something to be scared about. What is Nofollow in SEO? In a nutshell, Nofollow in SEO simply means that a backlink or hyperlink...
Backlink Your Way to SEO Success: An Up-To-Date Link Building Guide [UPDATED]
Before we jump into our link building guide, let's start at the beginning and cover what SEO means. The Role of Link Building in SEO Our simple SEO guide below covers all of the fundamentals, including common myths about backlinks and the role they play in modern SEO....
Top 5 Tools to Check Competitor Backlinks
What benefit is there in knowing how to check backlinks from your competitors? As the great Chinese military strategist, Sun Tzu, said; “Know yourself, know your enemy, and you shall win a hundred battles without loss”. In this instance, we are talking about the war...
Can Google Penalise Bad Links and How Does It Impact Your Business?
Since Google introduced the Penguin update to its algorithm in 2012, practices such as black hat SEO link building have, thankfully, been in decline. Widespread manipulation of a website’s ranking involving the practice of buying links, spam comments, link farming and...