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Patrick Langridge

Patrick is Head of SEO at Screaming Frog, leading a team of talented search marketers and content specialists to deliver best in class technical SEO, creative content and cutting edge digital PR for our clients. Away from the office you might find Patrick playing guitar in his band or complaining about his beloved Arsenal Football Club.

Screaming Frog & BrightonSEO 2023 Charity 5-a-Side Football Tournament

Following the enormous success of the 2022 tournament, we’re delighted to announce that Screaming Frog & BrightonSEO are once hosting a charity five-a-side football tournament on Thursday 13th July in London! Last year’s tournament raised almost £4,000 for a number...

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The Screaming Frog & BrightonSEO Charity Five-a-Side Tournament

We’re delighted to announce that Screaming Frog & BrightonSEO are coming together to host a charity five-a-side football tournament next summer in London! 2022 will mark 4 years since the last BrightonSEO 5-a-side, and just like the FIFA World Cup,...

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10 Mistakes in 10 Years in SEO (BrightonSEO - Sept 2021)

I started working in SEO in June 2011. On my first day at Screaming Frog, this is very first email I sent – It’s just a blank email to my dad – I think I was just proud to have...

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How to Scrape Google Search Features Using XPath

Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs) have changed a great deal over the last 10 years, with more and more data and information being pulled directly into the results pages themselves. Google search features are a regular occurrence on most...

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10 SISTRIX Features I Love

I have a confession to make – I love SISTRIX. SISTRIX, for the uninitiated, is an SEO tool which (amongst other things) plots website visibility based on ranking data, and gives a ton of useful and actionable insight into website...

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Digital Henley - SEO Personalisation Presentation

Rewind a few weeks ago, on a sweltering evening in South Oxfordshire, Redberry Digital ran the fifth incarnation of their successful Digital Henley event at Henley’s Red Lion Hotel. I was kindly invited to speak on the broad topic of...

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How Accurate Are Website Traffic Estimators?

If you’ve worked at an agency for any significant amount of time, and particularly if you’ve been involved in forecasting, proposals or client pitches, you’ve likely been asked at least one of (or a combination or amalgamation of) the following...

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What Should You Do If You Receive a Google Brand Penalty?

Google have been handing out penalties and manual actions to websites for some time now, but lately we’ve seen an increasing number of cases of brands being nailed and getting wiped from the SERPs for even branded search terms. There...

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The 11 Most Infamous Google Bombs In History

Google bombing is a practise whereby a specific web page is targeted to rank in 1st position in the SERPs for a particular search phrase, so that when that phrase is typed in Google it brings often humorous or controversial...

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Screaming Frog at LinkLove London

Screaming Frog at LinkLove London 2012 Last Friday the Screaming Frog SEO team ventured out of our comfortable setting of sunny Henley-on-Thames, to head into the Big Smoke to attend Distilled’s much lauded LinkLove conference. Distilled have been running successful...

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