This year at the A4UExpo London I will be doing a full day of SEO training on the day before the conference (Monday 11th October). I’m really looking forward to spending the day talking about SEO with the aim of sharing lots of my knowledge with the attendees, and it will be great to answer some of your direct questions about the day. I am busy working with my team to pull all the slides together for the training day, but I hope that the sessions will be a bit more interactive than me just talking at you all day. As you will know, there isn’t just one way to do good SEO and everyone has their own ways of working to gain the successful rankings, so maybe I will learn something too.
01 Sep 2010
Microsoft seeks partner in China internet
As Google appears to be retreating from China, Microsoft is talking up its chances in what will soon be the world’s biggest technology market.
It’s a bit of surprise given Microsoft’s steely attitude to piracy and licensing of its software and China’s inability (or unwillingness) to crack down on that piracy. Pirated versions of Windows and other Microsoft products are endemic in China – as they are for all software in the largely unregulated technology sector.
China also limits the number of Xbox-style gaming consoles that can be sold in the country and it’s attitude to web censorship and technology has thwarted some of the biggest Western names – from Yahoo to eBay.
This has bugged me for awhile now when the jump in back links first happened I was overjoyed, most people were I guess :
But google didn’t show me what had doubled or why it had increased so much:
17 Aug 2010
Yahoo Site explorer to be turned off
source: http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/08/api_updates_and_changes.html
The Yahoo! Site Explorer team is planning tighter integration between Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Center to make the transition as smooth as possible for webmasters. At this stage in the transition, it is important for webmasters to continue using Yahoo! Site Explorer to inform us about your website and its structure so you keep getting high quality traffic from searches originating on Yahoo! and our partner sites – even from markets outside the US and Canada that haven’t yet transitioned to Microsoft systems. To keep things simple, we will share site information you provide on Site Explorer with Microsoft during this transition period.
Two questions that I often get asked: “Is there anything a competitor can do to harm me?” and “Is there anything I can do to harm my competitors?”
So let’s pretend we are going to be evil SEO’s for a while and try and figure out what ways we could do harm to a website. If we can work out the ways to mess with other websites we can work out ways to protect ourselves.
17 Aug 2010
New Twitter button and the end of tweetmeme
Ok the end of Tweetmeme happened for me a while ago, I use Topsy on David Naylor but the last few days I have been running 3 different Twitter buttons.
Topsy- my personal choice, data seems sound and doesn’t time out
Tweetmeme – twice yesterday I had time out errors and in the real-time web that sucks
Twitter button – seems to report a little low, see yesterday post :
182 v 252 that’s really off IMO but my real hate comes from the fact that the tweet button takes you to the realtime results that doesn’t help at all ..
David Naylor wishes he had his number tweeted out by Justin Bieber, Dave wanted to write this post, but he’s too lazy, so he told me to write it instead!
Basically according to this article Justin Bieber tweeted out some guys number in the US, shortly after the re-tweet was removed, but not before his followers re-tweeted it! Basically this guy got shed loads of phone calls and over 10,000 texts from fans thinking it was Justin Bieber they were contacting… Check out the video below of the phone going haywire!
I used to love the Google AdWords Keyword Tool – Dave Naylor used to bang on about how inaccurate it was but I used to proudly defend Google’s keyword tool, adamant that the company that will “do no evil” would never give inaccurate data. DaveN was right, and I was very, very wrong.
Back in February/March I was working with a friend who were selling aquariums and pond supplies. I did a lot of keyword research for him using the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and I found the perfect keyword for him.
