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Google outlines SEO benefits
2008-07-03 08:06:00 Google loves us after all. Or, at least, it cautiously approves of us. The search engine publishes guidance for webmasters and, until recently, the only information it carried on SEO agencies was a warning about the terrible scams many use to try and trick a site into high rankings. Such advice cannot have helped the SEO reputation ... More About: Google , Benefits
Google outlines SEO benefits
2008-07-03 08:06:00 Google loves us after all. Or, at least, it cautiously approves of us. The search engine publishes guidance for webmasters and, until recently, the only information it carried on SEO agencies was a warning about the terrible scams many use to try and trick a site into high rankings. Such advice cannot have helped the SEO reputation ... More About: Google , Benefits
8 Simple Reputation Management Emergency Measures
2008-07-02 14:32:00 One of the major issues at the social media panel I was a speaker of has been online reputation management. While I prefer the more proactive ways of reputation building instead of the emergency like reputation crisis management nonetheless most of the businesses not familiar with blogging and social media need basic advice on how ... More About: Management , Simple , Emergency , Reputation
8 Simple Reputation Management Emergency Measures
2008-07-02 14:32:00 One of the major issues at the social media panel I was a speaker of has been online reputation management. While I prefer the more proactive ways of reputation building instead of the emergency like reputation crisis management nonetheless most of the businesses not familiar with blogging and social media need basic advice on how ... More About: Management , Simple , Emergency , Reputation
ICANN decision ups SEO importance
2008-06-29 17:56:00 Relying on spreading a website’s address to consumers has never been a good way to market online. Unless a firm is the lucky holder of a truly simple domain name (Hotels.com, Diet.co.uk and so on), it cannot hope to make enough consumers remember its address to keep it in work. The majority of online business is directed ... More About: Decision , Icann
ICANN decision ups SEO importance
2008-06-29 17:56:00 Relying on spreading a website’s address to consumers has never been a good way to market online. Unless a firm is the lucky holder of a truly simple domain name (Hotels.com, Diet.co.uk and so on), it cannot hope to make enough consumers remember its address to keep it in work. The majority of online business is directed ... More About: Decision , Icann
Can I outsource all that social media marketing crap to affiliates?
2008-06-27 11:32:00 This Tuesday I spoke at the social media panel of SES Hamburg. While I enjoyed the great session for some people in the audience social media and blogs are not as enjoyable. The contrary seems to be the case. The last question asked at the end of the panel was the most striking. A man ... More About: Marketing , Social , Media , Crap , Affiliates
Can I outsource all that social media marketing crap to affiliates?
2008-06-27 06:32:00 This Tuesday I spoke at the social media panel of SES Hamburg. While I enjoyed the great session for some people in the audience social media and blogs are not as enjoyable. The contrary seems to be the case. The last question asked at the end of the panel was the most striking. A man ... More About: Marketing , Social , Media , Crap , Affiliates
Journalists relying on blogs
2008-06-25 12:14:00 A few months ago, I flagged up a study released by Ofcom which expressed concern that useful public resources, like online news services, were being buried through an SEO “arms race”. Now, it is a closely held belief of mine that SEO work makes a website better for consumers as well as raising its profile. Pages ... More About: Blogs , Journalists
Journalists relying on blogs
2008-06-25 07:14:00 A few months ago, I flagged up a study released by Ofcom which expressed concern that useful public resources, like online news services, were being buried through an SEO “arms race”. Now, it is a closely held belief of mine that SEO work makes a website better for consumers as well as raising its profile. Pages ... More About: Blogs , Journalists
Google Trends indexing website URL?s & ranking for brand queries
2008-06-24 12:37:00 Last week Google launched Google Trends for Website s, I haven’t experimented with this too much yet but it looks like a great tool to compare website traffic. Anyway, I’ve just done a quick search on SEOptimise and was surprised to see the Google Trends result appearing at #4: As far as I’m aware there are no ... More About: Brand
Google Trends indexing website URL?s & ranking for brand queries
2008-06-24 07:37:00 Last week Google launched Google Trends for Website s, I haven’t experimented with this too much yet but it looks like a great tool to compare website traffic. Anyway, I’ve just done a quick search on SEOptimise and was surprised to see the Google Trends result appearing at #4: As far as I’m aware there are no ... More About: Brand
Which Domain Internationalisation Strategy to Use?
2008-06-23 14:03:00 During the last few weeks website localisation and internationalisation seem to be a hot topic around the blogosphere. Domain management for multinational websites is a very important SEO factor to consider, this ensures you maximise the amount of referred local search traffic whilst applying the most effective strategy overall. There are several different approaches which ... More About: Strategy
Which Domain Internationalisation Strategy to Use?
2008-06-23 09:03:00 During the last few weeks website localisation and internationalisation seem to be a hot topic around the blogosphere. Domain management for multinational websites is a very important SEO factor to consider, this ensures you maximise the amount of referred local search traffic whilst applying the most effective strategy overall. There are several different approaches which ... More About: Strategy
Search engine soap operas
2008-06-23 07:39:00 And they’re off… Again. More soap opera and cynicism erupts from three of the top performing search engines as Yahoo! sheds executives almost as fast as share value and Microsoft grumbles about Google being “anti-competitive”. Who needs WWE when you have giants like this wrestling each day? Last week, Yahoo! lost even more top executives; Joshua ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Engine , Soap
Search engine soap operas
2008-06-23 02:39:00 And they’re off… Again. More soap opera and cynicism erupts from three of the top performing search engines as Yahoo! sheds executives almost as fast as share value and Microsoft grumbles about Google being “anti-competitive”. Who needs WWE when you have giants like this wrestling each day? Last week, Yahoo! lost even more top executives; Joshua ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Engine , Soap
Yahoo Site Explorer adds subdomain data
2008-06-20 09:17:00 I’ve just noticed this morning that Yahoo ! Site Explorer now allows you to filter indexed pages and inbound links by subdomain. Screenshots below. Show Inlinks expect from this subdomain: Show pages from: All Subdomains: This looks like a useful report for websites which use multiple subdomains, enabling the option to remove internal subdomain links while still counting all ... More About: Data , Yahoo!
Yahoo Site Explorer adds subdomain data
2008-06-20 04:17:00 I’ve just noticed this morning that Yahoo ! Site Explorer now allows you to filter indexed pages and inbound links by subdomain. Screenshots below. Show Inlinks expect from this subdomain: Show pages from: All Subdomains: This looks like a useful report for websites which use multiple subdomains, enabling the option to remove internal subdomain links while still counting all ... More About: Data , Yahoo!
12 Brands Who Forgot to Buy Their .co.uk Domain
2008-06-19 08:20:00 Having a quick look through Alexa’s top 100 UK websites, I was surprised by how many of these have forgotten to buy the .co.uk top-level domain version. Here’s the main ones I noticed: apple.co.uk facebook.co.uk myspace.co.uk wikipedia.co.uk blogger.co.uk flickr.co.uk wordpress.co.uk digg.co.uk reddit.co.uk stumbleupon.co.uk about.co.uk download.co.uk As they are all very popular, well-known websites the volume of brand queries are likely to be very high, many via “Pages from the ... More About: Domain , Brands
12 Brands Who Forgot to Buy Their .co.uk Domain
2008-06-19 03:20:00 Having a quick look through Alexa’s top 100 UK websites, I was surprised by how many of these have forgotten to buy the .co.uk top-level domain version. Here’s the main ones I noticed: apple.co.uk facebook.co.uk myspace.co.uk wikipedia.co.uk blogger.co.uk flickr.co.uk wordpress.co.uk digg.co.uk reddit.co.uk stumbleupon.co.uk about.co.uk download.co.uk As they are all very popular, well-known websites the volume of brand queries are likely to be very high, many via “Pages from the ... More About: Domain , Brands
Guardian denounces SEO, loses market leadership to Telegraph due to SEO
2008-06-18 12:59:00 Recently Ciaran Norris wrote a thorough piece on how the Guardian basically denounces SEO as scams and fails to grasp the whole concept of it, while facing the Google monopoly with all it’s ramifications. I took a closer look just to discover what the problem with search engine optimisation and the Guardian is: According to ... More About: Market , Leadership
5 reasons to invest in online marketing during a slump
2008-06-18 09:25:00 Recent headlines have highlighted yet again that Britain is in for a rough economic period. A combination of worried head-shaking from the Bank of England and screaming sensationalist headlines have understandably caused consumers concern. Furthermore, economic fears have provoked a wave of blog posts from the SEO sector about the best ways to buckle down and ... More About: Marketing , Online Marketing , Online , Reasons , Invest
Guardian denounces SEO, loses market leadership to Telegraph due to SEO
2008-06-18 07:59:00 Recently Ciaran Norris wrote a thorough piece on how the Guardian basically denounces SEO as scams and fails to grasp the whole concept of it, while facing the Google monopoly with all it’s ramifications. I took a closer look just to discover what the problem with search engine optimisation and the Guardian is: According to ... More About: Market , Leadership
5 reasons to invest in online marketing during a slump
2008-06-18 04:25:00 Recent headlines have highlighted yet again that Britain is in for a rough economic period. A combination of worried head-shaking from the Bank of England and screaming sensationalist headlines have understandably caused consumers concern. Furthermore, economic fears have provoked a wave of blog posts from the SEO sector about the best ways to buckle down and ... More About: Marketing , Online Marketing , Online , Reasons , Invest
SEO, ASA and the spectre of legislation
2008-06-16 12:09:00 Should search engine optimisation (SEO) efforts be regulated by the Advertising Standards Agency? Recent discussions over whether or not the UK Code of Advertising Practice should apply to SEO have interested me considerably, because the existing rules simply cannot cater for the sector. Furthermore, while much of the recent debate has centred on whether or ... More About: Legislation
SEO, ASA and the spectre of legislation
2008-06-16 07:09:00 Should search engine optimisation (SEO) efforts be regulated by the Advertising Standards Agency? Recent discussions over whether or not the UK Code of Advertising Practice should apply to SEO have interested me considerably, because the existing rules simply cannot cater for the sector. Furthermore, while much of the recent debate has centred on whether or ... More About: Legislation
On Google and SEO Reputations
2008-06-11 21:03:00 Google has expanded its share of the UK market even further, managing to attract an incredible 87 per cent of visits in May alone, new research shows. Analysis published by Hitwise has shown that, while Google properties accounted for a substantial 68 per cent of all US searches last month, the search behemoth was responsible for ... More About: Google
If (you need SEO)
2008-06-11 20:29:00 If you need to keep ahead when all about you Recession looms and economists are blue, If your marketing department doubts you, And you can see that some of their points are true, If you want to boost visibility as well as sales, Or raise brand awareness should spending slow, Or leave the competition chasing their tails While you watch your consumer ...
On Google and SEO Reputations
2008-06-11 16:03:00 Google has expanded its share of the UK market even further, managing to attract an incredible 87 per cent of visits in May alone, new research shows. Analysis published by Hitwise has shown that, while Google properties accounted for a substantial 68 per cent of all US searches last month, the search behemoth was responsible for ... More About: Google
If (you need SEO)
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