Blogcology Dec 19, 2013

Davecology Dave Davies’ recent Search Engine Watch article takes us back in time by reviewing Google’s methods of madness from 2013. What was great about this article is that it makes sense of Google’s events and algorithms as far back as 2012 and how it all came together for the present day. He discusses on […]

Google Goes Network Hunting

Last week, I reported on Google’s takedown of AngloRank, a supposedly solid link network used by black hats to boost their sites. It was amusing to follow AngloRank’s sales thread on BlackHatWorld, because Matt Cutts’ proud Tweet announcing the torch was actually seen as free publicity and the network saw an increased interest in their […]

Blogcology December 12, 2013

Mozcology Rand Fishkin CEO of MOZ stepped aside to teach new CEO Sarah Bird. The Moz team have had many positive years as well as managed to evolve with the fast changing world of SEO. The future is in great hands with Sarah Bird who has always been a fearless personality, a world class academic […]

Google Busts Anglo Rank, Anglo Rank Keeps Trucking

On December 6, Google’s Matt Cuts sent out this cheeky tweet: “’There are absolutely NO footprints linking the websites together.’ Oh, Anglo Rank.” This was effectively an announcement that Google had busted the paid link service; when Search Engine Land’s EIC Matt McGee theorized that the network was “torched,” Cutts confirmed that Anglo Rank had […]

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Googcology Are you sure you want to play in Google’s sandbox? Google Sandbox is a theoretical purgatory where a certain business under manual penalty sits until a review. Unfortunately, many companies are playing around in the Google sandbox and most of them are sitting there because of bad black hat link strategies. For example, Dave […]

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Beasticology Goldieblocks, an educational toy company focused to increase intelligent learning with young girls. Earlier this month they produced and published a video rewording the Beastie Boys song Girls. This unsanctioned video became viral overnight and caught the attention of the beastie boys themselves. In reply the Beastie Boys politely replied refusing the use of […]

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Bingcology: Is the acceptance of Bing on the rise? Many changes have been made in the past year making it harder and trickier to rank in organic query from Google search. Although, Bing needs to algorithmically catch up before it can take Google’s 90% of the market share the possibility is that it could still […]

The Curious Case of the DNS Error

While reviewing a client’s Webmaster Tools data yesterday, we came across something rather odd. WMT reported a DNS error on November 14th. A quick manual check of keyword rankings determined a significant loss, yet the analytics data showed a slight drop in organic search traffic between Nov 15th and 16th with a full recovery by […]

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In this week’s Webcology episode, the boys try to distinguish which animals are black and white, but possibly make you go hmm. No, not Toronto Mayor Rob Ford or a hummingbird but yet another creature that could blow your digital attention away. Techology Produce and Deliver. It’s becoming more and more apparent that we love […]