When embarking on an international SEO campaign in Russia (and some countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe), it’s impossible to look past one of Google’s biggest competitors, Yandex. Yandex was founded in the year 1997 as Yandex Search, by CompTek. Although its market share outside of Russia is small on the world stage (around 1.5% […]
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How do you check which pages/URLs on your site have been indexed on Google? I am acutely aware that this subject has been covered so many times in the past, using various methods, from Paul Shapiro’s Phyton’s script, which apparently upset the powers that be, understandably, as bulk checking Google index is against G’s terms […]
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This October is the fifth European Cyber Security Month, an annual awareness campaign that hopes to raise awareness of cyber security threats. Alongside this, the campaign hopes to promote cyber security among individuals and organisations, as well as providing the necessary resources to protect themselves online. To help raise awareness, SALT.agency is interviewing one cyber security […]
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The future of social media posts is very much visual, which is great news for Instagram – a platform which is going from strength-to-strength at the moment. Having recently emulated Snapchat with the introduction of its Stories feature, Instagram is now boosting its already healthy userbase of 700 million monthly active users with Snapchat fans. Do […]
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On 24 August it was announced that the UK economy grew by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2017 — equating to an annual growth of 1.7 per cent. This is despite the weak pound (down 13 per cent from pre-referendum level against the dollar at the time of writing), which means that […]
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As part of my series on various offsite SEO subjects, my recent blogposts on understanding the scalability of offsite tactics, which tools and platforms I would recommend, and how to monitor an offsite seo campaign build towards the below blogpost on creating, developing, and maintaining relationships. There are many ways to manage your relationships effectively, whether […]
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Back in April 2017 we announced we were looking for an undergraduate student to work with us in our Leeds office for a four week period over summer. The response to our internship announcement was phenomenal, and we received over 200 CVs from interested undergraduates. After a lengthy process of elimination, due to the staggering volume of […]
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SALT.agency is proud to announce that it has appointed a new lead software developer to its Leeds office. With nearly ten years’ experience under his belt, Igor has been designing & developing software in a range of languages with his core focus on JavaScript and PHP. Aside from core programming, he specialises in Magento platforms and […]
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For a long time now companies have been warned to switch their websites to HTTPS, with Google going as far as offering small ranking rewards for sites that have already done so. In an effort to ramp up site security, the tech company has now stated that from October 2017, Chrome (version 62, used by […]
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Next up in my series of offsite focused blog posts I will explain how to monitor coverage for any offsite campaign using a number of different tools. The list of tools covers both free and paid, which will help a range of businesses, from multinational, to locally based brands. What services can you use? As […]
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So far 2017 has been the year of the migration, with Google increasingly pressing on web masters to be secure and mobile responsive. Migrations however aren’t cookie cutter projects, and vary wildly in terms of both scope, complexity and risk. Switching to Https from Http on a small/reasonably sized website of a few hundred URLs […]
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WhatsApp has made its unrivalled personal privacy and security its main selling points in recent times; these are especially welcome traits in a communications tool when one considers how many times WhatsApp’s sister app and social platform, Facebook, has featured in the news due to its security flaws. In fact, SALT’s very own Technical Director, […]
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