22 August, 2016 by Paudy Heal
How To Get More Accurate Search Volume Data In Google Keyword Planner
You’ll have likely noticed some big changes to the Google Keyword Planner tool recently – namely that it now groups together the search volume data for many similar keyword variants. For example, if you research ‘car warranty’ and ‘car warranties’...
13 July, 2016 by Daniel Cartland
How To Analyse Your Ideas To Find Killer Content
Finding content that will garner authoritative links at volume is, on paper, an easy task. Simply think of an interesting content idea that is relevant to your client, find the right people to get in contact with, sell them your...
13 June, 2016 by Patrick Langridge
How Accurate Are Website Traffic Estimators?
If you’ve worked at an agency for any significant amount of time, and particularly if you’ve been involved in forecasting, proposals or client pitches, you’ve likely been asked at least one of (or a combination or amalgamation of) the following...
23 May, 2016 by Mark Porter
Super Quick Content Gap Analysis
We haven’t been using Sistrix for all that long at Screaming Frog, though we’re fast becoming one of their biggest fans. We usually approach ‘all in one tools’ with an air of scepticism, as while they may cover all of...
21 September, 2015 by Mark Porter
The Books of BrightonSEO
Those of you who have attended an industry conference before will know that books regularly make an appearance within speakers’ slides and talks. While we’re often bombarded with online articles, ebooks and whitepapers in this day and age, books are...
8 April, 2015 by Dan Sharp
How To Use Wireshark With The SEO Spider
Here at Screaming Frog we occasionally get support queries from users of the SEO Spider reporting issues such as recording the wrong response code, or perhaps reporting a page to have no title or headings, when they are there when...
29 September, 2014 by Mark Porter
Panda 4.1 – the Return of the Design Sites?
On Friday Google announced that they slowly started rolling out the latest Panda update, dubbed 4.1 by Search Engine Land, earlier in the week. This latest ‘improved’ iteration of the Panda algorithm has affected around 3-5% of search queries, and...
24 June, 2014 by Paudy Heal
The Importance of Social Media to the SEO World
Ah, social media and SEO. Some will tell you they go together like Batman and Robin, and others will tell you they go together like exact match anchor text and a Penguin update! There’s been a lot of confusion about...
19 June, 2014 by Stephen Pritchard
Should we scrap English Literature and teach SEO instead?
The exam board OCR recently announced it was dropping long-standing American texts such as Of Mice and Men and The Crucible from the English Literature GCSE syllabus, with education secretary Michael Gove to blame. As someone with three younger siblings...
17 April, 2014 by Mark Porter
Using Reddit to Build an Army of Niche Writers
Everybody wants ground breaking content these days, whether it’s for your own site or for posting elsewhere (yes, dirty guest posting), but few are willing to put their money where their mouth is. No, I’m not talking about choosing ‘5...
