Google’s new extended sitelinks: What do they mean for your business

on August 29th, 2011

I’ve nopticed these new, extended sitelinks about a week or two ago, but it seems they are now here to stay. They are 12 links deep, with a snapshot of each page under teh corresponding link, and take up about 90% of the results page. What search terms do they show up for? What do [...]

Search Engine Optimised Websites: what does it mean for the Small Business Owner.

on January 31st, 2011

There’s an excellent SEO article over at Search Engine Watch (SEW), that attempts to distinguish between Search Engine Optimised (SEO) websites and Search Engine Friendly (SEF) websites. This discussion can get pretty technical, but I want to tackle the other end of it, i.e. what clients should expect from an SEO website and how search [...]

Running a design website or blog? Why you need alt tags NOW

on May 9th, 2010

So Google rolled out their new, Bing-inspired interface. Some people like it, some not quite as much. Regardless of how you feel about it, it does bring to light some important points of consideration with respect to the ranking your site. One of the most interesting thing I cam across was the new option “Sites [...]

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Link & relationship building: Blogging about other blogs

on August 13th, 2008

I surprised myself the other day writing a post about another blog. Somehow I felt vaguely embarassed about it. I did it because I genuinely thought they had great content that I just had to share, but it wasn’t honest work. It was too easy. Easy to write the post – I didn’t have to [...]

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Online Reputation Management experiment – muscling in on page one

on July 14th, 2008

This is an ongoing experiment with free PR distribution engines and bookmarking/sharing websites in an attempt to take over page 1 of Google Australia for a given keyword – i.e. my brand. Ongoing results to be posted daily.

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Google’s new AdWords Keyword Tool: top 10 applications

on July 13th, 2008

So far, it seems the new AdWords Keyword Tool shapes up to be the most exciting event of my month. I can already hear people say I must have a sad life, but hear me out. In a spectacular move that will be a second blow to Hitwise’s business model, Google has finally taken pity [...]

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Google Trends for Websites exposes your ranking and traffic data

on July 6th, 2008

On June 2008 Google cheerfully announced a new feature of Google Trends: “Today, we add a new layer to Trends with Google Trends for Websites, a fun tool that gives you a view of how popular your favorite websites are, including your own! It also compares and ranks site visitation across geographies, and related websites [...]

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Advanced Web Ranking

on July 4th, 2008

I rather have to write about this one, since: a) I have used it for a long time and seen it evolve and improve; b) it actually runs on Macs and c) it seems to have been developed by a Romanian company and any Romanian achievement still makes me proud. What it is: Advanced Web [...]