Google has recently released a new tool in its Analytics product, which enables you to link your Google Webmaster Tools account to your Google Analytics account. It’s early days yet, but I’d recommend that anyone involved with SEO should use this feature to enable some pretty powerful keyword research. You’ll see why in a minute. [...]
Posted on September 8, 2011, 12:47 am, by Chris, under
Analytics,
Ecommerce,
Google,
Reputation Management,
SEO,
usability,
YouTube.
Typo squatters are having a field day making money from other people’s brands. One of them might be yours. The deal is that they look for common misspells of a domain name like a well-known brand or product and monetise the domain for profit (or try and install malicious software on your browser). It amazes [...]
Posted on August 31, 2011, 7:07 am, by Chris, under
SEO,
usability.
You may (or may not) have noticed that Google’s recently started showing what I’d describe as “Mega-Sitelinks”. Say it loud and say it s-l-o-w. The official name is Expanded Sitelinks, but I like mine better. Anyway, here’s how they look (mainly on brand related search terms): Whenever Google changes something, you may have noticed us [...]
Regular readers will probably know that I have a little online ecommerce business ‘on the side’. It’s a part time thing; I spend maybe an hour or so on it most days, answering emails and packing and sending orders etc. I’ve had the same website design since I began online retailing since 2001. Honestly, even [...]
Google has updated Google Analytics and added some pretty cool new features. As a free tool, it’s seriously powerful and most SME’s (and even really big business) find it’s incredibly useful. Obviously (or maybe not so obviously?) Google Analytics is a lost leader for them, but it is an excellent lead generation mechanism which helps [...]
You might recall a couple of months ago I was pondering the future of SEO, especially in light of the incredible popularity of Apps and the devices that support them. There have been over 9.9 Billion Apple App downloads – up from 7 billion that was reported in January and that doesn’t count at least [...]
Online Reputation Management and Brand Building – Build Thy Brand Guest article by Dejan SEO Online branding and reputation management are important factors for online success. Web is a super fast highway that keeps getting faster and faster, the easiest and fastest way to get the word out on a new product, service or anything [...]
With the NBN (National Broadband Network) rolling out we’re all (eventually) going to enjoy much faster internet connection speeds in the not too distant future. Both download and upload speeds will be pretty fast. That’s the theory anyway. With faster internet speeds I think the uptake of ‘cloud’ based services will be exponential. There’s been [...]
I’m disappointed with myself for not picking the launch of Google’s new Google +1 (pronounced, ‘Plus One’) button. It is such an obvious thing for Google to do and looking at it now, I’m wondering what took them so long? As reported yesterday, Google’s +1 buttons which will appear next to search results and Google [...]
I’ve written quite a bit about coupon codes and affiliate marketing over the years and I quickly wanted to share an experience with the website www.Retailmenot.com. About a year ago I decided to try out a coupon-code offer for my (secret ‘other life’) personal online business with Retail Me Not, mainly because in my experience [...]