If you haven’t read it, we did a post last month on how inaccurate the Google AdWords Keyword tool is. Well we’ve just had Brent from Market Samurai point out that the search volume on “fish pond supplies” has now changed to 210 (see before and after screenshots below).

Before

After

Interestingly we can also see from the screenshot that the seasonal variation hasn’t changed much – which kind of goes to prove that there was something wrong before and perhaps they’ve now, perhaps, got it fixed. It still doesn’t quite match up with the SK Tool – but we believe that is going to be redirected into the new tool – so I guess it won’t matter.

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Can someone tell me why this is so wrong :

I remember Google once saying that they were in the auction the same as any one else, so why are we seeing Google Premier Sponsored Listing

You can clearly see it’s marked Sponsored Link in my mind that means one thing and only one thing, no auction just a fixed price maybe, or a CPM deal. Whatever it is this could be a game changer, of course Google may have just given up competing with us mortals and decided that they want the number one slot.

Another week, another SEO conference – but this one was a little different as it’s closer to home and is starting to establish itself as one of the must-attend events in the digital marketer’s calendar. It was a very special event for Bronco too as we were one of the sponsors and most of the team went along for the day including Kean, who blogs about event here.  Because there were a few of us from Bronco, between us we were able to attend pretty much all of the presentations and I’ll try and blog about as many as I can here.

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it’s all Matt Cutts  fault and we all warned him in 2007 at SES San Jose

During a panel at SES this video was played

Matt thought it was funny but when he was questioned about relevancy he wasn’t worried, but I just didn’t get it how could a listing site specialising in home rentals get Link equity from a spoof a SEO Video neither could Greg Boser
from seomoz

(Rand) posed two questions to the panel:

To Greg Boser – why shouldn’t the Rentvine viral video be interpreted by Google as a signal that the Rentvine domain is valuable/unique/interesting?

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This year at the A4UExpo London I will be doing a full day of SEO training on the day before the conference (Monday 11^th 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.

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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.

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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:

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