Yesterday our SEO team headed over to Aston University to guest speak at SMEGlobalTech 2014. The event had a great turnout with around 30 businesses turning up for the day.
By HeadRed
Date: June 26, 2014
HeadRed are pleased to announce that we will be speaking at SMEGlobalTech 2014, a free event organised by West Midlands Business Export. SMEGlobalTech 2014 is an all-day event being held
By HeadRed
Date: June 2, 2014
With the launch of the new HeadRed site early last month, the office had a sense of nostalgia about our previous websites. From the exciting launch of our flash site
By HeadRed
Date: May 22, 2014
A brand new business venture, HeadRed’s creative team were tasked with creating a website and a brand which could compete in the car buying sector. The unique brand
By Hannah R
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The first ever hashtag #barcamp was used back in 2007 to group up posts relating to the BarCamp conferences taking place at the time. From there hashtags have come a
By Hannah R
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In the very early hours this morning, Matt Cutts confirmed that Google have started rolling out their latest algorithm update – Panda 4.0. Although Google are constantly updating the algorithm
By HeadRed
Date: May 21, 2014
Last Thursday I headed down to Brighton with the HeadRed SEO girls for my very first Brighton SEO conference. Getting up at 5 in the morning was a struggle and
By HeadRed
Date: May 1, 2014
“Content doesn’t need to be great, just packaged well” Pete Campbell Last week saw the SEOs of the UK and some individuals from overseas hit the town of Brighton. They
By Hannah R
Date: April 30, 2014
Verilan provides IT support to businesses from across the Midlands; whether that be providing Microsoft or Apple solutions, maximising hardware performance or managing software updates, Verilan are there to
By Hannah R
Date: April 9, 2014
Pennard Hill Farm offers breathtaking views and luxury boutique accommodation within close proximity of Glastonbury Festival. Now in its fourth year, Pennard Hill has everything a festival goer needs, from
By HeadRed
Date: April 4, 2014
It’s our 15th year of trading, and with new faces in the office, new clients and new sites being launched each month we thought it was about time to treat
By Hannah R
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In a recent study into Trade Union websites, Digital Consultant Simon Parry at Infobo investigated the responsiveness of sites to adjust to smaller devices.
By Hannah R
Date: March 7, 2014
AdWords has launched ‘Flexible Conversion Counting’ which allows advertisers to take more control over their conversions, but which settings should you use?
By HeadRed
Date: February 27, 2014
When a business is struggling financially, the weight of responsibility to solve the problem falls on the business owners and Directors. Cranfield Business Recovery are a team of qualified Insolvency
By Hannah R
Date: January 21, 2014
In the world of SEO, knowing how to go about ‘Writing for the web’ can be hard, especially now Google guidelines for content have changed. Here at Headred we have
By Hannah R
Date: October 29, 2013
Friday 4th October in the world of SEO saw the release of the Google PENGUIN 2.1 algorithm. Infiltrating and adjusting the Page Rankings of websites across the internet, heavy-hit web
By Hannah R
Date: October 18, 2013
Another day, another pesky Google animal!! Google have rolled out a new search algorithm which they say will return better search results. The update itself, called ‘Hummingbird’ actually rolled out
By HeadRed
Date: September 27, 2013
In the age of Panda and Penguin the need for high quality content, tailored to the needs of your target audience, is essential – not only as part of a
By Liam McGurk
Date: July 23, 2013
What do bad backlinks do to my site? Having low-quality, spam backlinks pointing to your website is not only bad from a ranking point of view but it can also
By Liam McGurk
Date: July 16, 2013
The trends in online marketing are quickly moving away from keyword rankings but they do still remain an important factor of most online marketing campaigns. Whether you are a small
By Phil Smith
Date: June 27, 2013
I’m about 4 month’s into my role here at HeadRed (great place btw, a smorgasbord of creativity!) and during this period I have become particularly interested in Local SEO having
By Liam McGurk
Date: June 21, 2013
We’ve all been waiting for it to hit since Matt Cutts told us they were expecting to roll out the next update in the “next few weeks” a couple of
By HeadRed
Date: May 23, 2013
I went to the BrightonSEO conference on Friday and came away with so many tips and ideas that my head is bursting! So I’ve managed to get our HeadRed designer
By HeadRed
Date: April 15, 2013
After another successful trip to the UK’s largest search conference, BrightonSEO, on Friday, I’ve decided to write a slightly different roundup post. I’ve read through the many pages of notes
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Following on from Dr. Pete Meyer’s epic post on life beyond rankings I have decided to take it one step further and illustrate exactly why rankings aren’t the be all
By Liam McGurk
Date: April 11, 2013
On Friday, I published the post about the BBC getting an unnatural links warning in Webmaster Tools and promised an update on the situation. It appears, after some speculation from
By HeadRed
Date: March 18, 2013
Today is a busy day in the SEO industry! Not only is one of the UK’s biggest conferences, Link Love, taking place in London – there’s a lot of buzz
By HeadRed
Date: March 15, 2013
Over the last couple of years SEO has changed drastically with Google waging war on the black-hats and spammers with the panda and penguin algorithm updates. In the midst of
By Phil Smith
Date: February 28, 2013
In the ever changing world of online marketing and SEO, a lot of businesses are turning their attention to pay per click (PPC) advertising in addition to their SEO strategy.
By Phil Smith
Date: January 28, 2013
Social media has very quickly become a hugely important part of doing business online and its influence on consumers continues to grow by the day. Not only does it provide
By Phil Smith
Date: January 9, 2013
It’s that time again, at the start of the week Google announced the 21st Panda update which in total targeted around 0.4% of regular search queries and 1.1% of English
By Liam McGurk
Date: November 9, 2012
If the dreary, wet weather of autumn isn’t enough to look forward to in October, Google have given us SEOs something else to prepare for as we all experience the
By HeadRed
Date: October 11, 2012
I’ve just found out that I’ve won an iPhone 5 in Site Visibility’s BrightonSEO Instagram Contest!! I’m so so excited to be a winner and glad my last attempt to
By HeadRed
Date: September 18, 2012
On Friday, Tracey and I travelled down to BrightonSEO on the train with a very early start leaving Birmingham International and Rugby in the dark! Bumping into a familiar face
By HeadRed
Date: September 17, 2012
On Friday the 14th of September, Tracey and I attended the BrightonSEO conference – you can get our full roundup here. In the afternoon, we actually found ourselves going to
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Controlling Duplicate Content On Your Website Ever since Google rolled out its Panda algorithm change back in February 2011 webmasters have been tackling duplicate content issues across their websites. The
By Liam McGurk
Date: September 10, 2012
In case you’ve missed it, Team GB have been doing quite well at the ‘Games of the XXX Olympiad’ and are currently sitting in third position on the medal table
By Liam McGurk
Date: August 10, 2012
Every industry has it’s own line up of usual suspects that are referred to as being at the top of their game. In the SEO industry there are a number
By Liam McGurk
Date: July 31, 2012
A simple tweet from Google is all it takes to set the pulses of some search engine optimisers racing. This week @Google tweeted the message “New data refresh of Panda starts rolling
By Phil Smith
Date: July 27, 2012
Overprotective of Official Sponsors? Something that has been featured heavily in the news in the build up to the start of the Olympics next Friday is the strict guidelines that
By Phil Smith
Date: July 20, 2012
If you have been on any news or social media sites today then you will most likely be aware of the story of Martha Payne and her blog NeverSeconds. Martha is
By Phil Smith
Date: June 15, 2012
This week I finally got round to seeing Marvel Avengers Assemble at the cinema and am happy to report that it’s an epically awesome movie. The film brings together a
By Liam McGurk
Date: May 11, 2012
This week the changes Google has made to its privacy settings have been heavily featured in the news but is the situation being blown out of proportion and are people
By Phil Smith
Date: March 2, 2012
As we all know Google is the main go-to-point for the majority of people’s Internet searches and has been for the past decade. It also looks like Google will be
By Phil Smith
Date: December 9, 2011
Google as we all know is the most used search engine on the Internet and offers many other products that are used daily by a wide range of people. Google
By Liam McGurk
Date: November 4, 2011
HeadRed recently undertook the task of redesigning the University of Warwick Science Park’s website which is an online business information portal consisting of 100 pages offering business support, property information
By Phil Smith
Date: September 30, 2011
Contrary to popular belief we’re not just a bunch of out-of-shape web geeks. Exercise and fitness aren’t dirty words at the HeadRed offices and Liam set out to prove the point
By Phil Smith
Date: October 29, 2009
