David Whitehouse Archive

Google Places – Hacked, Flawed Or Exploit?

In these hard economic times, small businesses need all the help they can get, unfortunately a mistake made with Google Places is having a massive negative impact on The Old Deanery. Disclosure: The owners of The Old Deanery happen to be good friends with David Naylor, and also happen to be my parents!!! Sometime in [...]

The Big 3 Search Engines Gain Market Share In 2010

Yesterday I did a blog post asking whether Bing have gained market share at the expense of Google. James Murray from Experian Hitwise contacted me and kindly supplied me with the past 12 months % share figures of the top 3 search engines, so I thought I would share the results with you all… It [...]

Has Bing Stolen Some Of Google’s Market Share?

We were having a look at this today and were wondering if Bing is driving more traffic to websites than previously. So we had a look at a few clients: Client 1 (Home & Garden Sector) – Organic Only December 2009 Bing share of visits = 1.68% December 2010 Bing share of visits = 4.26% [...]

Using Google Analytics To Identify Problems & Opportunities On Your Website

I was getting to grips with another aspect of Google Analytics today, I was actually trying to see if you could profile customers based on their visitor data – I’ve not quite worked this out yet, but I did find some very useful insights which I wanted to share. First up I was checking out [...]

Searchmetrics – One Of The Best SEO Toolsets Out There

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have a demo of Searchmetrics with Kevin Thiele. Searchmetrics does a similar job to many of the other SEO tools out there, rank tracking, link checks, keywords, except it does it a lot, lot better and with a higher degree of accuracy (in my humble opinion). Here are a [...]

Security Issue In Google Website Optimiser

We received an email from Google today regarding a security issue in Google Website Optimizer, see below: “Dear Website Optimiser user, We are writing to inform you of a potential security issue with Website Optimiser. By exploiting a vulnerability in the Website Optimiser Control Script, an attacker might be able to execute malicious code on [...]

Google Move Into B2C With eBookstore And Google Nexus S

Google seem to have moved further into the B2C markets today with Google eBookstore and the Google Nexus S being released. Google has launched its ebook offering, Google eBookstore, similar to Amazon’s Kindle Store in that you can purchase ebooks. The main difference is that Google has been scanning in books for years and already [...]

Google Testing 4 Organics

Just saw this on Google (see screenshot below), it’s basically a search results page with very accurate location information (my poscode has been erased out) and it only shows 4 listings. DaveN says he has seen this on some searches for brands and James, one of our developers, has also been seeing it. If Google [...]

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