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The spammiest Google result ever?

February 4, 20080 Comments

Just found possibly the spammiest results I’ve ever seen in the index. I was looking for partition recovery memory pen . A colleague had got the dreaded “Windows cannot recognise – would you like to format?” message, and I was looking for a partition recovery tool. So we see a number of results hosted on [...]

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What gives Yahoo? Why are you hiding Kelkoo data?

January 25, 20081 Comment

I had a project at work recently that requires me putting together a small desktop client to provide data to Kelkoo. In need of the XML specification for Kelkoo, I filled in the form on their site expecting a quick turnaround via email from a company as big as Yahoo. It appears that even though [...]

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Quintura. Not scared of Google. Pity its pure crap.

January 7, 20081 Comment

I’ve seen these guys on numerous blogs, and sites. Advertising their ass off. I’m all for seeing a giant slayers win once in a while but it still amazes me how some startups just don’t get it. They have a brilliant marketing strategy. I mean, gents I love your banners. I clicked at least twice [...]

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21 Steps to website success in Google for 2008.

January 5, 20082 Comments

There are a number of ways of promoting a site, however any webmaster worth his salt knows that search engine referrals are where you are going to win the majority of points. Link building is hard work, and it is much better to simply create content which will serve two purposes – generate search engine [...]

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The Big G releases sitemaps for Video

December 19, 20070 Comments

The Big G (our own little nickname for Google), has released a new sitemaps protocol for video. So if any of you guys hosts videos on your site, its time to get integrating into your sites. More information can be found on the official Big G blog. Any plugin developers for WordPress feel that this [...]

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5 lessons webdevelopers can learn from Nintendo’s WII business model.

December 16, 20077 Comments

Everyone in the gaming industry has been surprised by Nintendo’s rise and rise in the video gaming market. Their new console the Nintendo WII (for those of you who have been living under a rock) has blindsided the major market dominators Microsoft and Sony. November 2006 was the first time that Xbox, Nintendo Wii and [...]

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Microsoft releases Webmaster Tools. Hooray!

December 4, 20070 Comments

Microsoft has today finally released Webmaster tools to the public. On first analysis there really isn’t anything to write home here, but it can only be good for sites to start to adopt MSN’s tools as well as Google and Yahoo. Google highlight problems with their crawler on your site, and Im sure MSN will [...]

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Subdomains have no trust or pagerank.

November 28, 200715 Comments

As a result of setting up this blog, I’ve noticed that my trust within the engines has been affected. Although my main domain has been ok, there is without doubt an instant “starting from zero trust” happening with subdomains. Incidently this subdomain also points to an alternative IP address. I may have to start link [...]

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Google launches social networking “OpenSocial” platform

November 13, 20070 Comments

Every smart marketer realises that getting in on the recent hype of social media is a smart move. Traditional marketing is giving way to a new exciting method of marketing communication, blogs, viral media, and social networks all have one thing in common. They are young and dynamic and typically understood by the younger generation. [...]

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