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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 [...]
Is it possible ? One of the newish features around Google search is suggested search. I’m sure you’ve seen or used it, it can be quite handy. I blogged about using it for keyword research and profit last year. Anyway, here’s an example: Of course, this begs the question, “how is Google deciding which suggested [...]
You’re probably aware of the recent black hat JC Penny fiasco. Before I get onto a couple of basic and easy ‘white-hat’ link building tactics, I want to add some thoughts on JC Penny. Google’s head of web spam Matt Cutts, loves these stories – it gives him an excuse to make an example out [...]
I discovered a great resource this week, www.reelseo.com which as its name suggests is a blog all about video for the web. They’ve been calling this year ‘the year of the Smartphone’ since about 2008 when the first iPhone’s came out. It’s telling that people are consuming video content about 25% more on their mobiles [...]
Why I post my business? Google places has an incredibly powerful reach for businesses to generate leads via the internet – take the following for example… ComScore indicates that 43% of internet users are actively searching for local merchants when evaluating whether to make a purchase. Additionally 52% report that they have regularly substituted search [...]
Great website design has never been more important. If you regularly use Google, you’ve probably already noticed that you can preview web pages before you visit them, just by rolling your mouse over the results (or clicking the small magnifying glass next to a search result). This is Google Quickview in action. Here’s an example [...]
Most of you have probably head about or even used Google’s new instant search. This is a big change – probably the biggest I’ve witnessed in search, like, ever. While it’s probably too early to predict exactly what the fall out will be (if any), I’ve had a scout around the traps to try and [...]
Most SEO ‘experts’ are divided on this question. Rand Fishkin argues that they have little or no value and in some respects I have to agree with him. Just. Rand points out 5 pretty good reasons not to get too caught up spending hours and hours optimising your footer purely for SEO reasons. Rather than [...]
Most of the time our Google results display the way we want them too. But on occasion Google can do strange things and pull in information from other trusted websites to use in your Google result. One classic case includes Billabong.com.au (and the US-based billabong.com site) where there are no meta content description tag in [...]
