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Linkbait is such an ugly term, but there is a very real need for it at the moment. As the results pages of Google become saturated for most competitive online ...
(Filed in Blog, October 22nd, 2006)

Google Consultant on Dragons’ Den

Yes that was Steve on series 3 episode 7 of the BBC's Dragons' Den last night pitching his StoryCode idea. He didn't really expect them to broadcast the ...
(Filed in Blog, September 15th, 2006)

Google Mini: Smaller, Cheaper, Irrisistible!

UK pricing is now £1,295 for up to 50,000 documents for a Google Mini, with a ceiling of 300,000 documents for £4,000. This remains the most remarkable value... £1,295 for ...
(Filed in Blog, September 6th, 2006)

Switch off Google.com Redirection to Your Local Domain

A quick tip to stop your attempt to reach Google.com from being hi-jacked by Google's geo-targetting: Typically, Google will serve you the Google site that it considers most relevant to ...
(Filed in Blog, August 21st, 2006)

Site Migration Made Easy - 301 Redirects Revisited

We have bumped into a number of questions recently about how to migrate a site from one technology to another, or even from one domain to another, without massacring Google ...
(Filed in Blog, July 28th, 2006)

Testing Meta Tag: NOODP. Success!

Google is returning the DMOZ title for my site (screenshot) when a search reflects the precise words in my DMOZ listing. So I have added the NOODP meta ...
(Filed in Blog, July 25th, 2006)

No More DMOZ Titles and Snippets in your Google Listings

Today Google announced a new Meta Robots attribute that specifically requests that data from the Open Directory Project is NOT pulled into the Google listing for the site. To ...
(Filed in Blog, July 13th, 2006)

Google Image Search is 5% of all Google Searches

Reminder of the importance of Google Images: According to the latest statistics from Hitwise, Google Image Search receives around 5% of all downstream visits from Google UK (it ...
(Filed in Blog, June 19th, 2006)

Google Dominates UK Market - Hitwise Report

Hitwise.co.uk today released one of their regular PR reports on the state of the UK search marketplace. The key findings from a Google optimisation point of view are related ...
(Filed in Blog, June 8th, 2006)

Google Trends and Phrases

Google Trends doesn't assume phrases. I know that Google Search doesn't either, but the way in which Google Trends is presented on its home page, you can be forgiven for ...
(Filed in Blog, June 5th, 2006)