May 7th, 2008 — Google
I hadn’t seen (or maybe just not noticed) this before. Google’s now showing related search phrases right at the top of the organic results. They’ve been showing them below the organic results for a long time now. Now then, how could you spam your way on to that list of related searches…
May 5th, 2008 — Social Marketing
“Just for fun” dominates the installed Facebook Application category. Do not assume that a pointless Facebook application is worthless. There’s some very interesting Facebook app stats, including the number of installs and active users here.
May 5th, 2008 — SEO
Here’s good example of bad SEO. Check out these nicely labeled footer links:
Why would you want to include “SEO” in your anchor text? Any why the hell not go to some effort to produce decent looking pages? Instead of this spammy looking content:
This is a great example of how not to do SEO on an ecommerce site.
March 21st, 2008 — Humour
We’ve all been there. You’re the expert, the one who makes a living from building websites and advising on usability and what makes a successful website. But the client doesn’t give a f**k about your expertise or knowledge, they know best! Their staff know best, someone’s wife knows best, someone’s nephew with Dreamweaver knows best, in fact everyone except you knows what makes a great website. Continue reading →
March 15th, 2008 — Google
If like me you’re interested in all things Google then check out this video from the BBC. It features a tour of Google’s new European engineering headquarters in Zurich Switzerland. It looks like a truly inspirational place to work. See the free food, fireman’s pole, slide (to get you to the free food) and aquarium! Google are making in excess of $1 million per hour purely from Adwords revenue, I suppose they have to spend it on something.