Chrome Lighthouse Extension for SEO Audits

Chrome Lighthouse Extension for SEO Audits

At Distinct SEO, we offer SEO audits and training for small businesses. However, if you have some basic web skills, there are a lot of good tools to help you perform SEO audits on your website. 5 years ago you needed someone with SEO expertise to run through your...
https is here to stay – SSL encouraged for all websites

https is here to stay – SSL encouraged for all websites

Google recently announced that their browser Chrome, will start popping up messages to browsers who encounter unsecured websites starting in July. That means any non-secure website (https://), their visitors using the Chrome browser will get a pop up saying the...

Mobile Devices Now More Popular Than Desktops

Check out this graph from StatCounter. Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Platform Comparison Market Share Mobile devices coupled with tablets now outstrip the use of desktop as the primary device for users. Google unofficially confirmed the results when an...
Google WMT Updates Guidelines and Adds Rich Results Testing Tool

Google Hunting for Spam Guest Posting

Google has made an official comment, a warning, for the use of guest posting for the sake of SEO. There are numerous websites that rely on guest posting for content, and in return offer a link back. Here’s the grey area, how does Google determine what is quality...
Adult Colouring Book by Calgary Artists

Adult Colouring Book by Calgary Artists

Our publication wing, RoBarry Publications, recently published an adult colouring book made and created in Calgary. We thought we’d give them some love with a shout out for the book: Soul Coats: Restoration – Adult Colouring Book You can pick it up at a...
Google Penguin Algo Goes Real Time

Google Penguin Algo Goes Real Time

Over 700 days later, the codenamed ‘Penguin’ algorithm update is now live in real-time influencing the SERPs on a now ongoing basis. Historically, the Penguin filter caught spammy website (usually due to poor manipulative incoming web links). Those sites...