BBC Starts Linking From News Articles (Badly)
In the world of SEO the Holy Grail for many years has been a link from the BBC. Due to the way that search engines view the web and assign values to links from one site to another (a process which SEOmoz recently explained) sites such as the BBC, which are what might be described […]
What’s The UK’s Most Popular Browser? Google
Hitwise have released some data which quantifies something that I’ve thought for quite a while: for many people Google has now replaced the address bar as the primary way of navigating the web, even when they know the address they wish to get to.
Hitwise’s stats suggest that in May of this year:
88% of searches for […]
Gmail’s Crash & The Dangers Of The Cloud
Yesterday the blogosphere & Twitter were buzzing with the news that Gmail (or Google Mail as its known here & in Germany due to copyright issues). Search Engine Land carried the official announcement from Google on the problem which, unsurprisingly, played the problem down:
The Gmail team is currently aware of a subset of users being […]
08.08.08: Auspicious Beginnings For People’s Music Store
Several months ago, I posted about the beta sign up for a little something called the People’s Music Store. I went ahead and tacked my name to the list, and was duly invited to join the beta launch.
The concept is simple and enticing: you sign up to create your own online music shop at The […]
Lies, Damned Lies & Technorati
Working in digital marketing, and particularly search marketing, I’m always very interested in tracking exactly how well a campaign is working. It’s why the first thing that we always do when we start work with a client is to get access to their analytics, or install some of our own if there aren’t any. However […]
