Today I have a useful infographic produced by Semrush which attempts to show specific factors correlate with search engine rankings. To do this, they have calculated a correlation score for each factor by analysing 16,298 English keywords with more than 100 monthly searches. The Google ranking factors in the design are broken down into categories including on-SERP factors, URL and domain factors, backlink factors, user signals, content factors and user experience factors and you can tell which is which by using the colour code at the top. Check out ranking data here: Here are my thoughts on s ..read more

The guys at the data experience platform called Domo have just released this year’s infographic that I look forward to every year called Data Never Sleeps 11.0 which shows different things that happen on the internet in 2023 every minute. They have been keeping tabs on the world’s data usage – in a minute – for over a decade now and the numbers consistently show that how we use data is always evolving and not slowing down. Some interesting things that they have noticed this year are that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way we communicate, work and create with ChatGPT ..read more

I have just come across an excellent video on reddit produced by the highly regarded content creator and storyteller called James Eagle which shows which websites were the most popular for each month since the early days of the internet in 1993. The video is about two and a half minutes long and shows the top 10 websites for every month along with the number of monthly visits each one received and the categories they fall into including search engines, social media and news and entertainment. The video has been uploaded to his YouTube channel and has had about 26,000 views and quite a few posi ..read more

Today I have an interesting infographic for you from the digital analytics consulting company called InfoTrust which is packed with information about the history and future of data analytics. The design starts off by saying the data analytics market is expected to be worth $550 billion by 2028 and then is broken down into sections including the evolution of web analytics, the birth of Google Analytics, Google Analytics 4 and why you need an analytics partner. I hope that you appreciate this web analytics infographic and please go ahead and share it on social media. (Click to enlarge) The post ..read more

Hi guys, I have decided to do a post for you today because this website has recently turned 15 years old and I am going to take a look at its history. An old friend of mine called Jason helped me to choose the domain name and registered it for me on the 21st July 2006 and I managed to get the website up and running shortly after that. Over the 15 years there has been 4 different website designs and today I am going to show you pictures of them courtesy of the Way Back Machine and chat a little bit about each one. July 2006 – June 2008 This was the first web design for Seoco.co.uk and it wasn ..read more

When I was reading B&T this morning I saw an article about an advertisement that Google has created called “Get back to what you love” which encourages people to get the COVID-19 vaccination and it is gaining some real traction online. The inspiring video was posted on Youtube by Google on the 24th of March and has already had more than 6.7 million views and been featured on important websites such as USA Today as well as lots of advertising blogs around the web. The video starts off by showing general COVID-19 search terms like “quarantine”, “social distancing” and “lockdown” and then goe ..read more

Because it is the end of the year I have decided to take a look back at some of the best content that we have put out there for our clients throughout 2020 and here is some information about it for you to check out. We have done a combination of infographics and regular blog posts with cool photographs and stuff for our customers and a lot of them were really great and very well received – I am sure you will like them. Here is a quick breakdown of each piece along with images and links to the blog posts so that you can see them for yourselves. To kick things off here are the infographics that ..read more

Hello everyone, today I have a fascinating infographic from the Data is Beautiful category on Reddit which has been produced by the user called informatica6 and features information about the most popular search terms on Google for the year 2020. The designer got the data from the Google Trends year in search report and it lists the top terms and topics that were searched for globally during the year with height being the search interest for a given topic. As you can imagine a lot of the search queries are Coronavirus related such as Coronavirus symptoms and Coronavirus update and another very ..read more

Today I have a useful infographic for you that I have been meaning to post for a while but haven’t because I have been insanely busy. The infographic has been created by the marketing technology company called Grazitti Interactive and is packed with information about some of the best SEO tools that you can use to help promote your business. The piece starts off by teaching you about various keyword research tools such as the one from SEMRush, KWFinder from Mangools and Ubersuggest and then goes on to offer a list of the top content optimisation tools, site enhancement tools, SEO analysis tools ..read more

Hey guys, today I have a fun blog post for you all that will take you on a journey back in time to around the time when I got my first job in the internet marketing industry 20 years ago and make you feel all nostalgic. Courtesy of the Way Back Machine I have put together a few screenshots of what some of the popular search engines looked like back in the year 2000/2001. Back then there was a little bit more choice then there is nowadays and it wasn’t just all about Google, Bing and Yahoo. As you can see from these pics the search engines have changed a lot since back then except for perhaps G ..read more