As an SEO I have to perform a lot of outreach to bloggers, and in the past few months I have seen a growing trend – valuing of links within blog posts on an annual basis. Increasingly when I enquire about the requirements & costs of placing a sponsored post on a blog a webmaster will reply with £x per year. This, to me, seems… Read more…
The author tag isn’t necessarily new, but it’s definitely taking its time in ‘catching on’, recently however, I’ve seen an increased amount of chatter around the tag, with people heralding 2013 as “the year of the author (tag)”… Ok so maybe I haven’t heard anyone say those exact words, but you get my point. With all this in mind I thought a post explaining the… Read more…
Last Friday the No Pork Pies team ventured down the road to our favourite free SEO shindig: BrightonSEO. We thought this year’s BrightonSEO was another great event (you can read our highlights here), but we were also interested to see what everyone else thought of the conference. We’ve used Brandwatch to analyse Twitter conversations about this year’s conference. After a bit of data crunching we… Read more…
Some of the No Pork Pies team took a day out of the office to attend BrightonSEO on Friday. BrightonSEO has become one of the most popular SEO events in the country and has come a long way from its humble beginnings when it started as a small meetup in a pub four years ago. This time there were more speakers than ever, as the… Read more…
Social networking website; Twitter, are currently previewing a blogging system on their website named “medium”. Founders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone co-founded Twitter and Blogger so with their impressive background it looks likely that we will be seeing this blogging update on Twitter very soon. The tool is said to be a “recycle” of Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, and Reddit using its best features which have… Read more…
