The guys over at RedFly have kindly released a new Firefox plugin to help with international SEO. You can use the Google Global plugin to view PPC and organic results from any set country, region or city around the world. I've just added a new … [Read more]
Why You Should Always Control Your Content
Posted on February 12, 2010 // Leave a Comment
There's a sad story in the Guardian today about several leading music blogs being shut down on Blogger.com. It seems they had DMCA notices filled against them and although they attempted to respond to the complaints, Blogger deleted their entire … [Read more]
Google Defines Search Space Not ICANN
Posted on November 30, 2009 // Leave a Comment
ICANN has just delayed the launch of their new Top Level Domain (TLD) extension program, which lets businesses apply for custom extensions such as .shoes, .flowers and .texas. They have cited technical, economic, legal, and policy issues that still … [Read more]
French Handball Creates Online Reputation Nightmare
Posted on November 20, 2009 // Leave a Comment
Communication has been drastically changed by the Internet. Now world events are commented on within minutes by thousands of users. So when Henry Thierry used the 'hand of God' to push them through to French team through to the 2010 WorldCup - … [Read more]
Google Speed Ranking Effect On International SEO
Posted on November 16, 2009 // 6 Comments
My first thought when hearing that Google are making site speed a ranking factor, was how this would affect International SEO. Hosting infrastructure in the US is large-scale, reliable and often cheaper than local providers in developing … [Read more]
Using Network Features On Sphinn
Posted on November 12, 2009 // 9 Comments
In this post, I wanted to show you one of the useful additions to the new Sphinn platform; networking. This feature lets you filter the articles on the site to submitters you trust and want to follow. Underneath each submission there is an add … [Read more]
Unfortunate ALT Tags in Email Campaign
Posted on October 20, 2009 // 2 Comments
This piece of email marketing from Vocus PR made me smile today. You have to wonder if they checked the mailing without the images being shown (default usually). Writing out the full word "Bullet" in the ALT tags is going to take a few seconds … [Read more]
Twitter Debutes In Dilbert
Posted on October 4, 2009 // 1 Comment
AFAIK this is a first time Twitter has appeared in the world of Dilbert. Goes to show how far the service is progressing into the mainstream. A recent report by eMarketer suggests that Twitter user numbers could exceed 26m in the US alone. Global … [Read more]
Google Adding In-Page Navigation Links in SERPs
Posted on September 11, 2009 // 1 Comment
Google seems to be including in-page navigation links within their SERPs, most likely as part of their strategy to show the user as much info as possible about the destination page before they click through. We've seen this strategy in action with … [Read more]
12 Essential Domain Name Registration Tips
Posted on April 8, 2009 // 10 Comments
It's easy to avoid disasters with hindsight and hopefully 10yrs as a domain registrar, web producer and marketer has given me some. In my opinion, here are 12 defensive steps which you should take right now. 1. Ensure Your Domains Have Accurate … [Read more]