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Marketing

Welcome to 2009 – Conversion Matters is dead, long live Conversion Matters

August 12, 2009

[I wrote this six months ago but it has taken me six months to sort out servers and generally find some spare time - sigh...] Hello everyone; welcome to 2009. Conversion Matters has evolved! This blog has been dormant for a few months now while I’ve been busy learning about software engineering and as such [...]

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Are Madlib Sites Whitehat?

September 17, 2008

I’m never really sure what to write about these days, so I figured it was about time I checked my logs to see what people were looking for, I mean hell, it’s what the gurus suggest (damn I was looking for a relevant link but couldn’t find one; still I’m sure that’s what they suggest)! [...]

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Creative Technique For Master-Link-Baiters

May 10, 2008

I was in the shower and an idea popped into my head, not something I’ve heard explicitly talked about before. I can only assume this is due to one of the following: It could be a completely rubbish idea It may be being used by sneaky people who don’t want it revealed It could be [...]

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The Hottest SEO Trends

March 5, 2008

I just spent £10 on magazines – quite excessive for a poor student! I bought .net as well as a few others because a featured article caught my eye – ‘The hottest SEO trends. Starring: Google’s Matt Cutts, SEO Guru Danny Sullivan…’ (not to mention there was something about ‘Porn 2.0′ – porn and SEO, [...]

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Domaining

February 12, 2008

I just purchased an ebook about domaining (affiliate link btw) on the recommendation of TheMadHat. I kind of see domaining as a dark art, something I don’t really know anything about and I’m hoping this book will change that. I’m not really expecting to flip any domains for $xxxxx any time soon but I figured [...]

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Facebook dying? Only if you’re a sleezy marketeer..

January 20, 2008

So apparently ‘people’ are getting bored of facebook, reverting to simply using twitter, or giving up on social media altogether. Who are these people and why are they not enjoying facebook? Facebook is not built for marketeers Sorry guys, facebook wasn’t built for you. It was built for people to socially interact with their friends. [...]

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You should realise that Wordpress is not right for everything

January 7, 2008

Whilst I agree that wordpress is a fantastic piece of software I think it’s important to realise that it has it’s place and that place is not everywhere. I used to think that I’d probably end up using wordpress for every site ever unless there was a really obvious reason not to use it. I’ve [...]

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There is no right or wrong

January 6, 2008

I read something a few days ago that struck a cord with me. It was about a tobacco industry spokesperson who said to his son: There is no right or wrong. There are just arguments. If you win you are right. That’s kind of how I view SEO. There is no right or wrong – [...]

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Dominating the SERPs

November 2, 2007

Right I’m bored of having two pages out rank me for a search for my name on Google UK. Also I just saw a couple of posts on the distilled blog about getting your facebook profile ranking. So I’m going to try and get that to rank as well the Adam Taylor page at Durham [...]

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A proper PageRank update at last!

October 27, 2007

There appears to be a proper PageRank update happening at last – the front page of this blog is now PR4. Now I can starting selling text links to casino sites… ! How did you do? I only had a brief look around but was some what surprised I ended up with a higher (front [...]

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