Tom has long been fascinated with how the web works… and how he could break it. In this presentation, Tom will discuss some of the times that he has discovered security issues in Google, Facebook and Twitter. He will discuss compromising Search Console so that he could look up any penalty in the Manual Action tool, how he took c...

HTTP/2 and Service Works are becoming more established, yet the SEO community lacks awareness of what they are what they may mean for us. A lot of us know we need to have knowledge about them but we manage to keep putting it off. However, for both of these technologies, the next 12 months are going to be the turning point where ...

Google is a black box, and for almost 20 years SEOs have run experiments and tested ideas trying to understand what makes the search engine tick. Until recently, it's been really hard to run robust tests that isolate the effects of SEO changes. At Distilled, we have been using new tools and statistical approaches to run split-te...

Search is undergoing dramatic changes taking it away from the paradigm of keywords and the focus on websites, towards conversational search and app indexes. Tom will examine the trends and discuss five new paradigms he believes are fundamentally changing the way search works: compound queries, implicit search signals, user signa...

Search is undergoing dramatic changes taking it away from the paradigm of keywords and the focus on websites, towards conversational search and app indexes. Tom will examine the trends and discuss five new paradigms he believes are fundamentally changing the way search works: compound queries, implicit search signals, user signa...

Tom talked about Google's relationship with links, and how it has changed over the last decade. Over that time Google have been forced to scrutinise every link more and more to determine whether its trust-worthy and weight it accordingly. Tom highlighted how important, beyond the other algorithm changes and ranking signals they...