Google Reviews are Broken (and Google Local Guides Aren’t Helping)
Google has a review problem. When I help clients with SEO, if they already have – or could benefit from having – a Google Map listing (a.k.a. a Google My Business listing), I help them with the...
View ArticleThe Launch of TechEvents.Wales
Back in 2015, I created a side-project website for my parents’ IT recruitment agency (Computer Recruiter) called CR 25, where we published 25 blog posts in one month to coincide with their 25th...
View ArticleDon’t Panic, SEOs! The Whisky-related Zero Result SERPs are a Bug
Update: Google have since put this experiment on hold (source). Zero-result SERPs have caused a bit of a stir in the SEO industry this past fortnight. For time-related searches, instead of showing a...
View ArticleCardiff SEO Meet is Going on a Temporary (& Hopefully Brief) Hiatus
I love running Cardiff SEO Meet – but it’s a lot of hard work. Each time I run one of the events, I think to myself “enh, it’s just 2 speakers, and they’re 3 months apart – it’ll take no time to sort...
View ArticleCardiff SEO Meet is Back (Already)
Well that really was a brief hiatus… Less than a month ago I blogged saying that Cardiff SEO Meet was going on hiatus until after my son’s operation. Well between then and now he’s had updated scans...
View ArticleRoger MozBot & the Time Machine – My MozCon 2018 Competition Submission
Update: I actually won!!! For years and years, it’s been a dream of mine to attend MozCon, Moz‘s annual SEO conference. Just over a week ago, Moz published a blog post announcing that they would offer...
View ArticleMOM Turns 5 – A List of Thank You’s
My freelance business – Morgan Online Marketing (or MOM for short) – turned 5-years-old on Monday, as I officially took the plunge and went full-time freelance on Tuesday 7th May 2013, having left my...
View ArticleBecome Cardiff SEO Meet’s Site Review Sponsor and Have Your Software Demoed...
Cardiff SEO Meet has some fantastic sponsors, including food sponsors and – as of the next event (our 8th one) – a website sponsor (website coming soon!) and a photo/video sponsor. Recently however I...
View ArticleMy Trip to MozCon 2018 in Seattle!
What a month July was! On Sunday 8th July I flew to Seattle to attend MozCon 2018, having won a VIP ticket in a competition by Moz. My submission was a short story about Roger MozBot (Moz’s brand...
View ArticleCaught Out by Canonicals – A Quick Tip When Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS
It’s been a while since my last post on here (over 4 months – yikes!) but I thought I’d quickly put this out there based on a recent private Facebook group interaction. A few people said it was a good...
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