Tag Archives: Google

URL fun with The Ever Project

Well thanks to Seth’s tip yesterday (yes people Seth Godin, quite a surreal sentence I know) I decided to check out ever.com or The Ever Project as it’s officially called. It kicked off towards the latter end of last year and it uses most of the known Squidoo functionality, this is great for people who [...]
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Marking up websites for The Semantic Web

We’re at a point now where we’re seriously talking to clients about semantically marking up their websites. The problem is clients a) don’t like jargon and b) Just want to know business implications and benefits. So many people are baffled by techies jabbering away about the semantic web and the components that enable it. There [...]
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Digital “Landmarks”

I was on my daily walk to the tube station the other day, my regular trip through the back streets of Soho en route to Oxford Circus station. When I arrived at the station I found out it was closed...great! A blessing disguise in many ways as I'm not get much exercise at the moment, I decided to march to Piccadilly. When I got there I didn’t see anything unusual, tourists taking photos and people barging during rush hour.
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Act like you deserve your top spot in Google!

Modern approaches to NSO (post meta keyword stuffing) encompass many overlapping disciplines, such as PR, User Experience (UE) and good design. So many people in the SEO field (client side web-masters especially) fail to take note of the UE side of well...UE!
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Google indexing flash, what will this mean for accessibility?

Google are indexing flash, the news most designers have been waiting for! Flash has always been a harder sell for the pure designer types who build flash heavy websites and do not take the search engine spiders into account. How will flash based sites rank within search engines in comparision to semantically optimised websites? With [...]
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Google Trends for Websites

I think Google Trends for websites is great for a number of reasons: - Firstly it allows you to compare traffic by competitor - Secondly it allows you spot the performance of your competitors through known seasonality curves....
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Opera 9.50

I recently updated my version of Opera as you do…I’ve always been a big fan of opera and if it had all the plugins that Firefox had it would definitely be my default browser. Opera renders as well as Safari and it has all the keyboard functionality of Firefox, in addition to all of this [...]
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Google first click free

This is great news for publishers who rely on advertising/subscription driven business models as having “first click free” traffic will ensure consistent revenue is generated from new content and strategic placement of calls to sale at the end of article excerpts will help to drive paid subscriptions...
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