Rick Rollin Day - April 1st
Today, as most of you will know (or realised by now) is that it's April 1st the coolest day of the year on the internet, this year the theme seems to be somewhat "Rick Rollin" with some major faces featuring...
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Straight Quotes vs Smart Quotes
As any enterprise SEO will know documenting suggested website changes and justifying them is big part of our day to day job, and it has to make sense to multiple readers from IT to Marketing. It's also a real pain...
Tuesday, 04 March 2008
TFM Search Engine Marketing Statistics
At Technology for Marketing it was a real pity that the presentation theatres weren't much bigger because at least 2/3 of those people that queued couldn't get in. If you're in this line-up that stretched pretty much to the main...
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Top 15 websites to show off your video
There isn't a shortage of video sharing services today that's for sure! With so many to choose from, we have complied our favourite 15 sites to show off your video on: Video Jug VSocial Video Egg Grouper Current Pownce Youtube...
Friday, 22 February 2008
Google Luner X Offers $20Mil Grand Prize
One small step for man, one giant leap for Googlers. Google have announced 10 of the competitors for their larger than life competition. The Luner X competition will award the first privately funded team to send a robot to the...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Me, DaveN and Ralph Tegtmeier (Fantomaster) at SES London 2008
I was on the organic search forum on the first day, with DaveN, Ralph Tegtmeier (Fantomaster), and Steve Johnson. CartoonBarry has a photo, interesting black,white,black,white seating arrangement. Here's my quick summary: Use multiple domains to maximise coverage across local country...
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Facebook director confirms he'll do his upmost to make Cornwall a network
I live and work in a county in England called Cornwall. It's the one on the far lower left. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=cornwall Some people affectionately like to refer to it as 'Kernofornia', because the climate is a bit milder than the rest...
Friday, 08 February 2008
Google to Invest Millions in Renewable Energy through 08-10
The recent news of Google being prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in big alternative-energy projects; traditionally touted as 'radical' and hard to fund, may be the turning point for the renewable energy sector in within next decade....
Friday, 01 February 2008
Teen girls aren't the only ones who dwell on how their bodies look.
ROFL. Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo! for $44.6Billion is the biggest story in the online and finance world today...so what does Google do....offer up some health tips suggesting Jerry Yang and Bill Gates shouldn't worry about their body image. Don't...
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Permanently Disable Google Personalized Web Search
One of the many major annoyances in a SEO's day is the personalized web search. Google keeps track of previously clicked domains, and personalises the results to match a users previous click patterns. While Google personalized search could potentially be...
Monday, 14 January 2008
Google data suggests 95% of the web is junk
William here spotted a very interesting post about the amount of data processed by Google each day. You can see the input data is mass produced, which indicates this is probably coming from crawler feeds and uploaded feeds (Base) and...
Monday, 22 October 2007
How to stop animated gifs.
Here is my top tip for today. When I have to study the contents of a page, moving images can be really distracting. Stop animated gifs and pngs by pressing the escape (ESC) button. This works both in IE and...
Monday, 08 October 2007
Google Current 5 minute search flash
Google Current is a short TV program that airs every half hour on Current TV and is guided by the searches that you make! Recently showing was "rear of the year" after the winners of the annual quest for best...
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Neutralize (*\*) in the big smoke
The Neutralize team have kept a busy schedule this past month – check out these snaps of our recent London events! Online Marketing Show 2007, Business Design Centre. 26th-27th June Neutralize handed out over 200 complimentary copies of the highly...
Wednesday, 09 May 2007
Yahoo! sings to a new tune
People who struggle to remember the lyrics to their favourite songs may be heartened to know that Yahoo! has done something about it. Search Engine Land has reported on Carlos Teran at Yahoo! Search's blog, in which the insider revealed...
Wednesday, 04 April 2007
Travel online marketing worth £21 Billion
Online marketing in the travel industry will reach a worth of £21 billion ($41.3 billion ) during 2007, according to new statistics. A report from eMarketer, entitled US Online Travel: The Threat of Commoditization, has found that 52.5 per cent...
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Economist Intelligence Unit - Future of Marketing Toilette Paper
Google have just sponsored a report by the Economist Intelligence Unit - called the Future of Marketing, however they might as well have called it "Ditch your search spend and put it into email" needless to says it's mostly drivel....
Thursday, 19 October 2006
Datacenters in a box Sun - Google?
I wouldn't usually talk about enterprise server technology but I have been looking at Solaris 10 as a viable platform for our apps, and then this week Sun announces Project Blackbox which looks strikingly similar to the rumoured Google datacenter...
Tuesday, 17 October 2006
Google gets environmentally aware.
"In early 2007, EI Solutions will build the largest solar power system ever installed on a single corporate campus, at the "Googleplex" in Mountain View, California" Wow, good move guys. Being environmentally conscious ourselves and sourcing our power from renewable...
Tuesday, 10 October 2006
Google buys YouTube
Not rumour and speculation anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal: Google Inc. agreed to buy closely-held YouTube Inc. in an all-stock deal worth about $1.65 billion, a transaction that will unite the popular video-sharing site with Google's online advertising...
Friday, 06 October 2006
AOP Awards
Congratulations are in order for our friends Ashley and crew at e-consultancy.com who took Online Publisher 2006 and also Editorial Team 2006 in the AOP Awards beating Financial Times Business, CNET, Haymarket, Centaur, VNU and Reed Business Information. Outstanding work...
Tuesday, 03 October 2006
Searchmash Google Test Site
Seems like Google has a new test site - Searchmash, there is almost no reference to Google on the website and if it wasn't for confirming the netblock owner as Google Inc via Netcraft myself I'd have thought it was...
Monday, 21 August 2006
A search marketers quality of life
Sometimes companies are surprised when they find out where we are located, because they think we're a London based agency, but in fact we are stealthily located, right down on that little foot called Cornwall in the bottom left of...
Friday, 28 July 2006
Predictions for 2006 revisited - Google the Musical
Not quite Andrew Lloyd Webber, but close enough to Adams most outragous prediction for 2006. Google the Musical.
Thursday, 13 July 2006
Search Engine Marketing Competition...
Your chance to win!!! Not only can you check out the show video from Search Engine Strategies, London (2006) for free, but even better than that I have five of our exclusive and highly desirable Laptop Bags to give away...
Monday, 10 July 2006
How to join the Google evaluation or rater team.
We've been aware of the evaluation criteria inside Google for a long time and how a website can be subject to a more thorough going over than that purely delivered by technology, but for the rest of the world Googles...
Friday, 07 July 2006
eBay bans Google Checkout
Let the battle commence... http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum22/5292.htm
Wednesday, 05 July 2006
The Long Tail
Just received my copy of Chris Andersons "The Long Tail: How Endless Choice Is Creating Unlimited Demand" after monitoring his blog and waiting patiently for months for him to finish it. As you will have seen from Martin Dinhams e-consultancy.com...
Thursday, 29 June 2006
Google Checkout vs PayPal
Google checkout is finally here, but will it be the PayPal killer it's hyped to be? Unfortunately if you are a merchant without a US address and bank account you can't use it so you'll never know. To spot participating...
Monday, 12 June 2006
Google World Cup Operators
I love the Onebox these days, that little area at the top of the screen beneath the Pay Per Click results and above the algorithmic. Type "world cup" into your search and it gives you the most recent results. But...
Tuesday, 04 April 2006
Krugle - code search engine starts beta testing
Krugle the code search engine, started initial beta trials last week with a sample of 1,000 from the 35,000 people that signed up to take part. A 'code' search engine like Krugle that allows us to search through actual programming...
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
Google blog mistakenly deleted by...Google
Proving that accidents really can happen at the push of a button no matter who you are, Google deleted their own long standing and highly valued PR9 blog site http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ It's now been reinstated with the following message. We've determined...
Friday, 10 March 2006
Internet more popular then television
Confirming what I was saying the other day about television advertising and search engine traffic trends being part of a notable lifestyle change, is a survey that has just been conducted by Google. Analysts from TNS surveyed more than 1,000...
Monday, 06 March 2006
The MIVA Principle
Finally read through the recently published 'MIVA Principle - Vision for Online Publishers' and it is actually slightly more radical than I had expected. To get the general idea check out the Yahoo! Journal on the side of the news...
Wednesday, 01 March 2006
Google Gals Comp
Normally when we talk about competitions and search engines it is generally the technical side, results qualilty, share prices or the like that get our attention. The blokes in our companies attention has now been captured by a competition of...
Thursday, 26 January 2006
Jobs in Search
Thanks to Jobs in Search for inviting me to be listed as one of their search marketing industry experts. To find out more about me and some of my other leading compadres check it out. Recruitment is a big issue...
How is a web page constructed?
A new Google report provides analysis of over 1 Billion documents to see how they are constructed. Well worth a look at for those code heads amongst you. PS. they know Google doesn't validate. In December 2005 we did an...
Monday, 23 January 2006
Google the brand that impacted us the most in 2005
The Search Is Over: Google wins brandchannel’s 2005 Readers’ Choice Award. The poll finds that Google was the brand that impacted us the most in 2005, knocking Apple off the top spot. Skype debuts in third http://www.brandchannel.com/boty_results/global_2005.html
Friday, 20 January 2006
Web 2.0, infinity, and beyond
John and Tim are having a competition to come up with a the four word tagline for this years Web 2.0 conference. We reckon it should be: 2.0, infinity, and beyond.
Tuesday, 10 January 2006
Google ‘lapbox’ cracks the sub $100 laptop problem
Talk of the Google ‘Cube’ died quietly away at CES last week, yet I was shocked to see that my daughters nursery are part of some secret Google R&D team. Let me introduce the Google ‘lapbox’ that greeted me when...
