From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Quick update

September 29, 2007

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 rather hectic.
Hopefully I’ll still be able to blog a bit but if not, rest assured I’ll be back [sometime] after freshers week!
Also I’ve paid for a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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