An interesting article appeared in The Telegraph newspaper, a few days ago, about why having too much choice can leave us bewildered and depressed. The article relates to research carried out at Stanford University and can be used broadly across every instance we meet in our day-to-day lives and that includes using search engines.

To quote a piece from the aforementioned article..

People can become paralysed by too much variety and wracked with uncertainty and regret about whether they have made the right decision.

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Quite a few weeks ago I noticed the Daily Mail run a cheeky little script on its web copy that when you copied and pasted an excerpt from one of its articles you also included a link back to the page where it was lifted from, for example :

The dementia affecting hundreds of thousands of Britons may be a legacy of the Second World War, a scientist has claimed.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1213703/Dementia-caused-Second-World-War-claims-scientist.html#ixzz0RGlrjtMy

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They say in life that timing is everything, with this in mind and the looming anniversary of 9/11 this Friday, you can understand why I balked when I saw the below ad. I have thought long and hard about publishing this blog post also the closeness to the 9/11 date itself but at-the-end-of-the-day thought it should be aired.

I have to highlight that I find the ad repulsive and FAIL to find any link between the two events that the ad is supposed to represent.
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Today, this morning especially, I was really irritable when checking some Google local serps I became as grumpy as sin, and for anyone who knows me or has worked with me, I have an over-active grumpy gene which flares up every-now-and-again. Anyway, being absolutely baffled by the results Google were supplying myself, hardly any sleep and it being ‘that time of the month’ for me grumpyitis to kick in, I made the following Tweet on Twitter…
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I really like Google, I really do, but sometimes it throws out a curve ball, that catches everyone trying to understand how this goliath search engine works off balance. The most recent was the invasion of american .com sites into the Google UK SERP’s (Search Engine Ranking Positions). It lead to many optimising companies and commentators blogging about this update.
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Having read one of Shaun’s latest blog posts on “Some Google Toolbar Grey Pages Do Not Pass Anchor Text Value Or PR?” from Hobo Web I decided to put a few of the methods spoken about, to use with my own Page Rank Grey bar conundrum.

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I like to think I add something refreshing to my own social media accounts, for one I don’t just sell myself or NorthSouthMedia permanently on any of the social media platforms I’m involved with. In an unrelated discussion with a fellow seo marketer, on Twitter, the other day, it became aware of how many companies are sitting there idly waiting for resources to be posted so they can go ahead and create their own blog post, basically ripping of someone else’s content, but done with the care-in-mind that their disemblance of the original post ain’t going to catch the attention of the OP (original poster) or even the Google Duplicate Content trawler.

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For those of you who manage and run feeds through Google Base then you will have noticed that Google has been busy adding additional functionality to the admin control panel. The new tab called, Data Quality, allows you to oversee any problems you might have with your feed identifiers.

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Today, I’m gonna stand-up and speak about that ol’ friend we call the blog post – remember, when the majority of us used to blog constantly – until micro-blogging platforms such as Twitter and Plurk came along. I know there are some amongst us that continue to blog, as their main portal for spreading information – and you know what? More power to you, is what I say! Recently, I have witnessed first hand, several clients websites capturing their main targetted keywords from the power of the blogpost. They haven’t bought the services of an SEO company or a link building specialist… sure, they might have done so in the past, but it is only when they turned to producing unique, well-worthy blog content within their site, have they, overtime, at last reaped the benefits they were after all along.

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The other night there, when I was being Dad’s taxi picking up my eldest, on the road home I thought I’d try some conversation to help cut into the journey, however no matter how I tried to converse, it fell foul to her undue attention to her mobile phone. ‘What you doing?’ I quipped. ‘Browsing the web’, she replied. ‘Can you bring up my site?’ I asked. ‘Nah!’ She responded (*sigh* I hate teenagers!) But it got me thinking, no, not how much I hate teenagers, but how more-and-more of us are interacting with the web via our mobiles, and why mobile seo should be wrapped with any website project.

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