Little competition (& link building campaign, which they will probably get a slap for) going on over at the State of Search on ‘How to make the most of a4uexpo London as a Delegate’ so I thought for the first time in over a year since I’ve written on here I’d share some of my ideas on hows best to go about this:
Ok first things first, I blogged about the new Google Webmasters Tools reports that are being integrated into the new version of Google Analytics back in June, well the good news is this should now be live for everyone, so check out your profiles.
Also, today, I got access to Google Analytics Real-Time (beta) – I think I’m on some kind of early release list or something, which is quite good 
So here are my first impressions:
Search Engine Land just published some news on Google’s new “Trusted Stores”.
At first glance I thought “Wow cool, looking out for the consumers!” which is something we do need, and it’s certainly a welcome gesture from Google. In fact Trusted Stores is a great idea all around, nearly. There’s only one problem I can see in my little crystal ball, and that’s only if I’ve read and understood it right.
This is the bit I’m talking about:
“To qualify as a Trusted Store etailers must apply and voluntarily provide a range of data to Google. Google believes getting data directly from online retailers is more reliable than doing consumer surveys.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I will be holding a SEO Q & A session at the A4UExpo London conference in a couple of weeks.
I will be there for an hour to answer as many questions as I can, to provide some good advice to help solve any issues that you may have, or perhaps you’re just not sure about something to do with SEO.
The session is billed as
“The beast is unleashed as David roams the stage and floor answering your SEO questions. Sure to be entertaining, sure to enlighten and sure to provide you with actionable insights to improve your Google rank.”
I woke up this morning to find quite a few posts from the Google blogs – in particular the Google Analytics blog, which had 2!
Here’s a bit more about the changes:
Basically it sits where your dashboard is and it gives you real time stats on your Google Analytics – quite frankly users have been crying out for something like this for almost two years, so it’s great that we are finally getting something like this.
Source: Google Analytics Blog
In just over 2 weeks I’ll be heading down to London with Becky, to speak at the A4UExpo conference. This is one of the conferences that I really look forward to as its always packed with lots of speakers from a wide range of skill sets, has lots of enthusiastic affiliates, and most of all its really well organised and planned.
I’ll be doing 2 sessions this year, both of them on Wednesday 19th October.
I wonder why so many businesses still think they can get quality SEO services by paying minimal costs. SEO is a skilled job, like anything it’s a discipline where a little bit of knowledge is dangerous.
Some companies want SEO so they get a bunch of quotes, then they go for the lowest quote. They’ve got a huge site and a fair bit of competition. They want to rank nice and high in Google for the keywords that will bring them loads more sales and somehow no alarms go off in their heads when they get a quote which is 50% cheaper than what it should be.
I know we complain sometimes when things aren’t ranking where they should be, and we get junk for our search results… and some other stuff…
But Google’s claims to be an over-all ethcial company still hold true (they’re angels in comparison to other corporations anywhere near the size). Look at just the last few days:
1. Google are helping us in the UK out by building a huge technology community centre in London. This will help with jobs, training, and of course the over-all economy.
2. Google are offering to give $75 Million for a solar electricity project on peoples houses, helping to build a more sustainable future.
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