From the monthly archives:

August 2007

In the news – 28/08/07

August 28, 2007

Here’s a bunch of interesting articles etc. that I’ve finally managed to catch up on after my holiday/Reading Festival.
A video about paid links with Rand Fishkin and Michael Gray:

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Purple Yahoo

August 28, 2007

I just caught a glimpse of the purple yahoo search interface. I hear it’s a rare beast.

It’s like a purple ‘web 2.0′ design, or something…
The suggested search drop down is pretty cool – I don’t know whether they do that normally or not?

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How to write more readable blog posts

August 15, 2007

This is going to be a little look into blog post usability. Being able to write well for the web or for your blog will be an important factor in how successful your blog is.
If people are unable to easily digest your content, they’re not going to share it or link to it. [...]

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In the news – 12/08/07

August 12, 2007

Well I actually wrote this post on Monday, and if all has gone well, by the magic of wordpress, it’s published itself while I’m lying in the sun.
As I said before, I’m off to Italy but these few posts caught my eye before I left.

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Harry Potter Porn

August 6, 2007

I was doing some keyword research just now trying to work out if there would be any opportunity for some kind of Harry Potter related website and look what two of the top keywords were:
With 3756 searches we see “harry potter nude” and with 3101 searches we have “harry potter porn”.
What is the world coming [...]

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In the news – 05/08/07

August 5, 2007

There’s been quite a few interesting posts related to the article I wrote about optimising your blog. As well as some other random/interesting posts. Anyway here’s my round up.

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Was there a reason for the recent Google Analytics downtime?

August 1, 2007

So there was some recent downtime over the weekend in Google Analytics reporting. However, the data wasn’t lost, it just wasn’t being processed and it should all be back by now.

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What every blogger should know about setting up and optimising their blog

August 1, 2007

There are three separate areas of optimisation every blogger should focus on after they’ve optimally setup their blog. These are as follows, usability optimisation – the process of optimising the layout, navigation, content etc. of the blog. Performance optimisation – helping to make sure that if your blog is dugg or receives a [...]

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