Google’s John Mueller answered a question about getting links too fast and if that would trigger a penalty. The rate at which links are acquired is known in the SEO community as link velocity. John Mueller’s answer provided insight into the topic of getting links too fast and whether that results in penalties. Background of […]
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In organizations in which agile transitions take place, the ancient English proverb Blood is thicker than water is frequently appropriate. It is decided to adopt agile working, there is talk of Scrum, self-organizing teams, Sprints, standing meetings, sticky notes on the wall, etc. etc. Everybody has to change with the times, the whole organization has
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“To determine rankings on their platform, YouTube uses a metric called the View Velocity,” says HubSpot SEO expert Braden Becker. “The View Velocity metric measures the number of subscribers who watch your video right after it’s been published. The higher your videos view velocity the higher your videos will rank. YouTube also accounts for the
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There has been so much written about Velocity and its impact on teams yet it is one metric that eludes everyone and keeps cropping up whenever there is discussion around productivity. Is it really a metric of productivity? Let’s explore. What is productivity? As defined (n): the state or quality of being productive – the
Welcome to the latest instalment of Velocity’s most popular blog series (bar none, because there are none), Let’s Steal From…. We pick a piece of marketing that blew us away and distil it to its essential elements in a bid to understand how any of us mere mortals can ever come close to recreating something
In football, there are times when you want your opponent to slide in and try and take your legs out. You want them to commit to a tackle. In fact, you want to seduce them into it. The idea is to make yourself just open enough to seem like they can take the ball off your
This blog post was born of coincidence. It only exists because somebody arranged our annual company offsite, complete with Myers-Briggs personality test, on the same day as my ten-year work anniversary. Think about it. Fifty people, representing double-digit personality types, can find many ways to ask the question: “What have you learned in the past
‘Big Data’ isn’t something that mainstream sci-fi ever really dealt with. We never considered what would happen if someone leaked Captain Picard’s holodeck history. And it’d be a much shorter movie if Darth Vader found Luke on the Death Star because Han’s phone connected to the WiFi. But Big Data is here, and governments around
Google doodle You know those little pictures or animations that sometimes take over the Google homepage? They’re called doodles. The weird thing is, considering I see them more often than I see some family members, I’ve never really given them much thought. I’ve clicked some, played around on some of the interactive ones. But I’ve
The doors open, and I make my way up the platform and out onto the pavement outside Richmond station. It’s getting on for Autumn (Fall, North-American friends) so as I emerge I pull my coat collar close, and hurry up the high street towards Velocity Towers. Though my brain is still waking up, it already
