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David Bain

David Bain

Working as Content Marketing Director for Authoritas since March 2015, David also hosts our own weekly show – “This Week In Organic”, commonly referred to as #TWiO.

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David Bain

David Bain

TWIO-19: SPECIAL - SEO for Comparison Sites, Affiliates Sites & Aggregator Sites

October 2, 2015

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75 min

In this episode, we have a special edition – looking at SEO for Comparison Sites, Affiliates Sites & Aggregator Sites.

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SEO Software Updates

David Bain

David Bain

Introducing Full Mobile Rankings inside the Analytics SEO Platform

October 29, 2015

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7 min

Back in April 2015 Google released an update that started to penalise sites in mobile search which weren’t ‘mobile friendly’. This meant that some sites were more likely to rank differently in mobile search compared with desktop.

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International SEO

David Bain

David Bain

Is Google's algorithm different in different countries?

August 27, 2015

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7 min

Jump straight this question in the webinar video below:

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International SEO

David Bain

David Bain

Is it best to go for for separate top level domains (TLDs) for each country website?

August 25, 2015

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10 min

Jump straight this question in the webinar video below:

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