At long last Google this week confirmed what most of us in the industry knew already – meta-keywords are not used in organic search rankings. No real surprise there to be honest! Although, what those who still sell it as a service will do, we have no idea. The announcement was made in a post [...]

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Perhaps it’s just coincidence, but we’ve been noticing a rather alarming trend of late, namely robots.txt files being used to block all search engine robots from accessing what should otherwise be a fully accessible web site. In each case, the discovery has come about after a client asking us why their web site has suddenly [...]

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