From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Quick update

September 29, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Or for more frequent updates you can follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!This is just a very quick update to say that tomorrow I head to the University of Durham and I imagine the next few weeks are going to be [...]

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French advertising on facebook

September 27, 2007

French advertising on Facebook? That’s not very relevant! They can’t be getting a very high click through rate or many qualified customers if they’re showing it to non-French people.

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Treating different content consumers differently!

September 26, 2007

This is a topic that ChrisG has touched upon before (and probably others) but I believe it is an important one that deserves revisiting. As a blogger you have to realise that people will consume your content in different ways. You will have organic search traffic, RSS subscribers, and referrals from other bloggers and social [...]

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5 killer tips for starting a search engine optimisation business

September 24, 2007

Earlier today I received an email asking for advice about starting an SEO business: “I’ve been reading your blog and website a fair bit recently. In April of this year, I set up my own SEO company as a part-time venture whilst still working as an in-house SEO for a British company. I’m looking for [...]

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In the news – 23/09/07

September 23, 2007

Here’s all the stuff I thought was interesting enough to sphinn over the past week. A few of which hit the front page!

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So you want to get social?

September 20, 2007

If like me, you want to fully embrace and participate in social media/news etc. and also learn a thing or two along the way, you have to read lots of blogs! So here, just for you, is a large list of all the interesting blogs I’ve been reading. I’ve categorised them in the same way [...]

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Tesco Compare advert

September 20, 2007

I just saw a Tesco Compare (a new moneysupermarketesque site – for car loans) but weirdly the URL they promoted in the advert was to tesco.com not tescocompare.com. I just thought that was a bit odd…

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When is a blog not a blog?

September 19, 2007

When it’s a website that has been built using wordpress for convenience. Wordpress is a great CMS system and I love it. It’s so easy to set up and equally easy to use. There’d have to be a very good reason for me to NOT use wordpress on a web project these days otherwise I [...]

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Blogrush sucks so far

September 19, 2007

Out of 304 impressions I got 2 clicks. Woofuckinghoo. 0.66% click through rate. I guess it could be worse… perhaps? It would actually be pretty cool if you were able to filter out some of your content for syndication because I don’t know how it chooses what to display but some of my content is [...]

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Relative vs. absolute links revisited

September 18, 2007

So I was still unsure what the deal was with relative vs. absolute links from a search perspective so I’ve decided to dig around a little deeper for some answers.

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