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Why your website needs to be HTTPS by the end of January

According to Google, over 50% of all desktop pages loaded on the internet are HTTPS pages and is continuing to grow. HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. You’ll notice that if you visit a website, HTTPS pages are identified by the secure symbol next to the URL. These pages are secure and are safe…

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Anicca Launches 3 New PPC Tools – Try today for free!

Anicca has developed three new PPC tools which we hope all digital marketers will find extremely useful. The three tools include; a UTM link builder tool, an XML Feed Converter and a broad match keyword converter tool. All of these are fully functional and are available for free on our website under the tools section. 1.Build Campaign…

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Google Release New Penguin Update – And it is Real-time

Big news in the SEO world today. Google has officially announced the roll out of the updated Penguin Algorithm on its Webmaster Central Blog. Initially launched in 2012 the Penguin Algorithm targets poor quality and spammy link tactics. It’s been nearly 2 years since the last Penguin update, so many websites hit by the previous…

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Google Introduces ‘Reviews from the Web’ To Knowledge Panels

On Wednesday Google announced a new feature via their Webmaster Central Blog. They are now introducing ‘Reviews from the Web’ to the knowledge panels for businesses when you perform a Google search. This allows businesses to display reviews from 3rd party sites such as Facebook and many others providing you are using the correct type…

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Google Adds ‘Compare Queries’ to Search Analytics

If you log in to your search console account today and visit the search analytics section, you will notice that Google has quietly released a new feature called ‘Compare Queries’. What this means is you can enter the queries you want to see impressions, visits, position or click through rate for and compare them against…

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Google SERP Changes in May 2016: Rich Cards

Google announced on Tuesday May 17th that it is introducing Rich Cards to the Google.com SERPs, initially only for mobile results and for two content categories; recipes and movies. Rich Cards takes the current Rich Snippets feature further, using your marked up content (with Schema) to display a lot more information about the content on…

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Map Analytics session data to list of crawled URLs

If you want to determine how effective/valuable each URL is on your website in terms of SEO authority, quality of content and conversion opportunity, this guide can help you gather the data you need, which can act as a nice supporting document for an overall content audit document. In this guide I specifically look at how to map Analytics…

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Cannibal content – Is your website eating itself?

You may or may not have heard the term ‘Cannibal Content’ or ‘Cannibalisation’ before. ‘Cannibal Content’ refers to when your website is essentially fighting itself with pages optimising for the same phrases, whether deliberately or by accident. This confuses Google and may be the reason for your poor rankings. We’ve outlined a brief guide on…

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Anicca host Digital Marketing Day at Waltham Forest College – 6 workshops to help small businesses

Anicca Digital and Waltham Forest College joined forces to host the college’s first Digital Marketing Day. The day, aimed at small businesses, consisted of six workshops covering everything from advice on developing an effective website to SEO tips and tools and an introduction to public relations. Lead by Anicca MD, Ann Stanley and the agency’s…