For those that make a living online I’m glad to announce that Think Visibility is back! The 1 day conference will be held at Alea Casino Conference Area, about 25 minutes walk from Leeds train station ( I can vouch for this because we got lost enroute to Think Viz the last time and we ended up outside the Casino, ironically).
I Don’t Do Follow Friday Twitter Lists But If I Did…
I tend to ‘wangle my way’ out of Twitter come every Friday, it’s nothing to do with the site in general, just I can’t be bothered posting ‘Follow Friday’ lists or see them appearing in my timeline. Yep, when it comes to a Friday on Twitter, I do the ol’ drop-the-shoulder routine, start speaking out the side of my mouth, saying such things like, ‘How’s Yer Father?’ And blend quietly into the background.
However, I do appreciate my followers, and don’t want them to think of myself as some sorta ignoramus (which I’m not, I’m quite a gentle person that just gets grumpy from time-to-time), so I have devised this post, where instead of participating in the Twitter FollowFriday link orgy, I thought, come each and every Friday, I’d send them here, instead, a list of people/organisations/businesses which I give my glowing recommendation to following on Twitter.
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Taking A Bath With Your Socks On
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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Custom Link Love Fae Hobo
The Blogging world got struck with a backhander from Google a few weeks back when they announced that they had changed the way the dealt with the ‘nofollow’ attribute especially with the way pageRank flows through a site. I’m not getting into any debate here, as Google announced that their change was implemented over a year ago and no-one noticed, so coughing up some lame ‘right-back-atcha’ Google response ain’t going to hold anything worthwhile, so why even attempt it.
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Is Facebook Social Media’s Thoroughbred?
In the past couple of weeks I have started to invest a little bit more of my online time in the social media site Facebook. The reason, for my recent affection towards Facebook, was not one of sudden aduration but more to do with news items of which I had read. I’m going to list 3 reasons why I believe that Facebook is taking itself more seriously and why my attention has moved up the gears into believing that Facebook is about to take on the disposition that normally is only meted out to a thoroughbred racehorse.
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Posted in Social Media
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Google UK Serps COM On Down
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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Bada Bing, Bada Bong
I have been playing with Microsoft’s new search engine, ‘Bing.com‘ and you know what, I like what I see. Its fast, uncluttered and the results are none too shabby either. The left hand pane of the results shows ‘Related Searches’, which I always feel that the typical searcher will turn to more if they can’t find what they are looking for on the 1st or even 2nd page.
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5 Tips To Make 8 Out of 10 Cats Prefer Your Headlines
Content sometimes writes itself, ask the best content generators on the planet and they’ll inform you that their job is just a natural progression of placing the correct words in the right order. Writing a headline, however, to grab the users attention and read that tasty content is, somewhat, a different beast altogether.
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3D Secure Might Bust Your Conversions
There has been a recent campaign in the UK for nigh on a year now for eCommerce merchants to offer 3D Secure along with their payment gateway settings. One of my clients insisted that 3D Secure should be running against his site as he wanted to capture as many payment possibilities as possible (Maestro being the main target.) I obliged and then we watched, amazed as his payment conversions crashed at such a rapid rate.
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Posted in ecommerce
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Google Chrome Steps Up the Browser Wars
Google has launched its first TV advetisment in the States for their Google Chrome Browser. Currently, Chrome has just 1.4% share of the internet browser market, with Internet Explorer still dominating with a whopping 66% then Firefox on 22% and Safari with a reasonable 8%. With Microsoft releasing IE8, its not surprising that Google stepped onto the TV ad platform to invigorate a better browser share.
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