Monthly Archives: December 2009

You want to sell me SEO? Really?

seo-cold-callersSo I start adding content to my website and the emails from the ‘offshore’ web design and seo companies start flooding in.

I have a number of blogs and websites that don’t receive these kinds of emails yet when I start blogging about SEO and Internet Marketing I’m getting companies offering to sell me services I provide myself.

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Rel=Canonical is a Band Aid not a Solution

There is a bit of a buzz at the moment that Google has come up with a ‘solution’ for those multiple ugly urls that come with dynamic websites.

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Tell your clients about Web History

If you provide an SEO service you really need to let your clients know about Personalised Search and Web History. This post is for mine.

Personalised Search has now officially been launched by Google and from now on when you search for something the results that YOU see will begin to rank the websites you ‘usually’ click on higher than they ranked before.

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You Work in IT? Please Fix my Computer

I am not a graphic designer

I am not a graphic designer

This must have been said a gazillion times before but why is it that if your work involves anything to do with Information Technology people assume you can fix their computer or pretty much anything to do with IT and the Internet.

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Commodore 16 and the Syntax Error

commodore-16

I asked for a New Baby Alive. I got a commodore 16.

My first experience with a computer was with a Commodore 16.

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SEO Bashing

witch-huntIf you are an SEO (or indeed Web Designer) you will at some point encounter SEO Bashing whether you are a ‘victim’ of it or a participant. I’ve worked within the SEO industry for a quite a while now and over those years I have witnessed a fair few bashes and taken part in some too.

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How to Sign Out of Web History

(Even though you aren’t signed in!)

Given there is a lot of buzz around personalised Google search at the moment I thought I would start off with a very simple ‘how to’ aimed at the average Internet user.

Even though you are signed out of Google you will now find that Google is recording your searches via ‘Web History’

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Yes, it’s another SEO blog

Whoopeydoo!

So I have finally gone and set myself up with a Blog. I have no idea how I will find the time to update it but I’ll give it a go.

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