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Continue readingLast week Google unceremoniously dumped Interflora out of its index and a search for the company name today shows that the penalty still...
Continue readingYou may have noticed Google’s new Search Engine Results Page layout, which went live across the UK on 4th March 2014, which clearly...
Continue readingLargely unnoticed by most people, Google has recently become the censor of what it considers right and wrong. Unknown to most people and...
Continue readingOver the past couple of days there has been an enormous amount of additional content written about the upcoming change to the way...
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Continue readingGoogle have updated the way they show your title snippet in the Search Engine Result Pages, calculating based on pixel width rather than...
Continue readingOver the weekend Interflora started to reappear in searches for their brand name and more crucially the keywords that drive the most revenue, although further down the...
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Continue readingWell, it’s official, if you are looking for unfiltered search results then Google is most definitely NOT the place to go. Following on...
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Continue readingThis week has been an interesting one in the world of SEO. A quiet start to March for the SERPS has meant that...
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Continue readingToday’s Google doodle celebrates what would have been the 61st birthday of Douglas Adams. Most famous for The Hitch Hikers Guide to the...
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Continue readingA great story surfaced on Friday highlighting just why Google’s current approach to policing backlinks is so wrong. The story in Search Engine...
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Continue readingEDIT: November 2015 – we are now 18 months on from this original post and we have reached a grand total of 104...
Continue readingEvery year there seems to be a new ‘trend’ in SEO and currently that trend appears to be guest blogging. We are hearing...
Continue readingOf later there have been more and more instances of Google dominating particular search results with what are supposedly the ‘definitive’ answers. As...
Continue readingOver recent weeks we have seen an acceleration of the trends which people have been reporting since the middle of 2012, where the...
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Continue readingIt is endlessly fascinating to see how the SEO industry reacts to changes which Google makes to the way they rank sites. In...
Continue readingOne of the most popular questions recently has been ‘have I got any bad backlinks?’ and the answer inevitably, no matter which client...
Continue readingEvery day we get spam in the inbox; it’s a sad fact of life. If it were paper based junk mail then by...
Continue readingThis week Google’s Matt Cutts released a new video on the Google YouTube channel which you can watch here; . . A...
Continue readingAs you read this article, you are being watched. Whether you like it or not, it’s a fact of modern life. But do...
Continue readingUPDATE: 17th March 2016 Exactly one year on from this post I have been amazed by how much (and how little) everything has...
Continue readingWe warned recently about Google’s upcoming changes to its algorithm and we forecast that these changes would make all previous changes look like...
Continue readingWe run a website for a client which is very, very specific. It only does one thing and it’s an information site. ....
Continue readingWe get asked this question more than pretty much any other question and it seems we are not alone. Google also get asked...
Continue readingI first wrote about this particular issue in February of this year in an article entitled 10 reasons why Commercial Register is a...
Continue readingOne of the most asked questions from clients over the last few months has been “Do you think we have been hit by...
Continue readingToday, Aqueous Digital celebrates its 5th birthday. It’s quite a milestone; five years is a long time in the world of digital marketing....
Continue readingI was struck recently by a very interesting ‘Whiteboard Friday’ by the admirable Rand Fishkin over at Moz.com entitled “How to Get Content...
Continue readingWith Bing usage reportedly gaining traction, we take a look at how popular Microsoft’s search engine really is, how they’re winning more users...
Continue readingI’ve written a lot about how Google knowledge boxes are a more and more frequent visitor to our search results and in a...
Continue reading[UPDATE June 2017 – we’ve just added a new article about this here which tells you what to do if they demand payment. Summary;...
Continue readingI spent a very interesting day today up at Saints Peter and Paul’s Catholic Sports College in Widnes at a Year 10 Careers...
Continue readingI don’t remember the exact date the paradigm changed but I do recall it was sometime in the early 2000’s. That was the...
Continue readingI could see their logic. Lots of people are going to die from COVID-19 so why not do a targeted Facebook advertising campaign?...
Continue readingIt can’t be just me but recently I’ve noticed a lot more pop ups when I visit websites. You know the feeling; you...
Continue readingIt might not be the way Google intended it but the latest announcement from Google about its Adwords platform has left some commentators...
Continue readingIf you are not scared about your personal rights and privacy, you should be. Every day we relinquish just a little bit more...
Continue readingGoogle has something of a problem on it’s hands; it doesn’t own the local market. Sure it’s made lots of noise over the...
Continue readingGoogle’s updates in 2017 With Google keeping the details of any changes to their algorithm firmly up their sleeve, we’ve rounded up some...
Continue readingThis week we have noticed an addition to some of the Google My Business pages whilst searching and that is the ‘Popular Times’...
Continue readingAs I write this article the entire UK is in lockdown. Shops, offices and schools are closed. Everyone has been instructed to stay...
Continue readingOne of the most frequently asked questions of our business is ‘can you tell me what is wrong with my website?’ Of course...
Continue readingWe have warned about this for some time and here’s the first UK based evidence that Google will be monetising the Google My...
Continue readingWe all know how hard it can be when you are hit by a penalty and we also know that Google is not...
Continue readingLink building is dynamic and ever-changing, but it is still an integral part of any form of digital marketing, and should be one...
Continue readingIt has long been held in the SEO community that if you are working with a website that has fallen foul of a...
Continue readingSherlock Holmes once said that ‘once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth’ and that...
Continue readingIt still astonishes me how people will prey on the unknowing and use a small piece of misinformation to gouge open a huge...
Continue readingVirtually every day we hear another story of a website that has been suddenly hit by Google and thrown out of the index,...
Continue readingIn today’s digital age, all businesses, no matter how small, need to have a website and an online marketing strategy. As competition for...
Continue readingMaybe it’s just me. Maybe I’m of a certain age and a certain demographic that means I’m programmed to be cynical but during...
Continue readingBack in October 2011 under the guise of ‘making search more secure’ Google started to remove access to keyword data in Analytics and...
Continue readingThe first website launched way back in August 1991 and since then, websites have been a huge contribution to conversions for businesses. But...
Continue readingI read with interest a quote from Craig Key, SVP of media for digital agency space150 on this blog recently where he said; “I...
Continue readingLast week we received an email from Google in our inbox. Nothing exceptional in that, we get them every week however this one...
Continue readingIt’s been a week of novelties from Google so far and this one is a peach. A client with a brand new website...
Continue readingBack in the 1990’s, pre-internet and certainly pre-Google, there really were only a few ways that most businesses generated enquiries on a daily...
Continue readingWe’ve all been battered recently with messages from Facebook every time we log onto our accounts, but whilst we’ve got our privacy settings...
Continue readingI know what you’re thinking, but this really isn’t a ‘click bait’ headline. They really did send me 749 emails in the last...
Continue readingNo one likes a crisis. The definition of a crisis is “any event that is going (or is expected) to lead to an...
Continue readingIt’s the end of 2015 so time for a look ahead and a prediction on where we think the real changes are going...
Continue readingE-commerce technology is advancing at breakneck speed. Customers are more demanding and companies are under pressure to provide a flexible, speedy, efficient and...
Continue readingUpdate October 2016: By now you will know whether your original decision to stay with the buyer of Reach Local or to go...
Continue readingAs a business owner, you already know about the power of social media and you’re most probably using Facebook and Twitter as part...
Continue readingI can’t remember the exact date when I bought my first pair of John White boots but I do remember how I felt....
Continue readingNothing says ‘Welcome back to work’ quite like an inbox full of spam. Having just spent an hour wading through the muck looking...
Continue readingIn case you missed it, there was a bit of a celebration last night in a small city in the East Midlands. As...
Continue readingMost website owners get at least one email a day offering them SEO services and most ignore them. But how do you know...
Continue readingUK Non Compliance Register is another pointless scam [Updated Jan 19]...
Continue readingFacebook could be in for a rough ride in the USA where a recent ruling by District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan cleared...
Continue readingThe thing about mobile traffic is that local really does become local. It doesn’t matter where you live, local is where you are...
Continue readingAt the end of last week, Google rolled out a major change to their search algorithm which resulted in wild fluctuations in the...
Continue readingGoogle’s latest algorithm update which first hit on March 8th has been causing waves in the SEO world as some websites reported almost...
Continue readingAs a bit of a departure this week we are privileged to have something of a scoop on the Aqueous Digital blog. This...
Continue readingWe’ve reported for the past couple of months on the record the €2.42 billion EU fine handed down to Google for abusing their...
Continue readingIt struck me the other day as I was working out in the gym, just how much keeping fit and SEO have in...
Continue readingAs we become increasingly comfortable with speaking to our electronic devices the number of people using voice search is growing. This shift in...
Continue readingPinterest advertisers could start paying for promoted pins as early as the end of this month, according to a report from the Wall...
Continue readingOne of the sad things about our business is the number of customers we meet that start the conversation with “I was ripped...
Continue readingIt seems like hardly a day goes by without a story about website hacking, data leaking and the business problems that arise from...
Continue readingHas Hotmail stopped working on your Mac? Here's how to fix the issue...
Continue readingWith over a quarter of the world’s websites being created on Wordpress these days, it has become the number one target for hackers....
Continue readingThere was an awful lot of noise and nonsense leading up to the introduction of GDPR in May of this year and lots...
Continue readingThe latest in a series of scammers to come to our attention is DDC (Direct Debt Collections) who are well known to the...
Continue readingCould AMPing up the speed of your website’s content give you the edge over your competitors? Did you know that all around the...
Continue readingThe SEO community was left to reminisce about the good ol’ days of the internet after the ancient relic that was the DMOZ...
Continue readingDid you know that by running SEO and PPC campaigns together you could double your conversions overnight? We use this strategy with so...
Continue readingHere at Aqueous Digital, we love to review and predict how Digital Marketing will develop from year to year, and it’s fascinating to...
Continue readingSometimes when you’re browsing for a product online, you look at the image and go through a series of questions in your head....
Continue readingAlthough many people think otherwise, Google PageRank is still in use and will continue to be one of the most important ways of...
Continue readingWith social media platforms like Pinterest, Facebook and Instagram introducing increasingly personalised and innovative new features to encourage product discovery, alongside the rise...
Continue readingWe all know that Google makes changes to its search algorithm pretty much every day and we’re used to this type of change....
Continue readingIt’s become such an important part of the digital search landscape that these days we rather take it for granted, but Google My...
Continue readingLike many of you, I was one of this affected by the corporate brain fart in 2017 which saw them, overnight, hold large...
Continue readingA number of viral trends have hit social media already in 2019; with a picture of an egg beating Kylie Jenner’s record for...
Continue readingAt Aqueous Digital, search never sleeps, and neither does Google. Google is consistently reviewing its methods of ranking and how users employ SEO...
Continue readingNot a day goes by in the office without one or more phishing scams arriving in the inbox. These are one’s that have...
Continue readingAnother variation on a theme from our old favourites EU Business Services Ltd, the people behind the World Business List scam, is starting...
Continue reading[UPDATE: September 2018 – We’ve had a lot of response to this article and today have been sent an invoice from a firm...
Continue reading“It looks very much like the team at World Business List are active again, sending out forms to millions of businesses, inviting them...
Continue readingAnother email scam, designed to persuade the SME community to part with hard earned cash for nothing....
Continue readingAt Aqueous, we love to keep on top of the latest in PPC and as Google Partners, we are regularly taking the Google...
Continue readingLast week, Google announced they were introducing a new feature to Google Images that will present advertisers with more opportunities to engage with...
Continue readingWe are thrilled to share that one of our clients here at Aqueous Digital was featured in the Bolton Evening News, following an...
Continue readingSince the turn of the year, many former Photobucket users have been receiving ever more desperate emails urging them to upgrade their Photobucket...
Continue readingThis month sees the beginning of the end for the social network that never really was. With the explosion of social media such...
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