7 May, 2009
We all know the tale of the 300 Spartans, how they stood strong, together, moulded as one, against an army 10, 20 even 100 times their size, according to some historians. Well, we at NSM are looking for 500 troops of our own by Christmas. That’s right, 500 Spartans of our very own! If you look over at our current Feedburner account (->) you’ll see we are sitting pretty at a whopping 10. Hey, Bo Derek did all right from 10 as well as Dudley Moore. But, tbh, it’s ok, but not quite right. We want, nay, need, 500 Spartans behind the NSM cause by the time we are all unwrapping our chrimbo pressies. Not exactly, an easy ask, for a small seo ecommerce company situated in the back woods of Ayrshire – Spartan Country – I’ll have you know!
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6 May, 2009
Google Trends is a very clever way to help track how popular or unpopular a person / place / company / whatever is within Google’s Search Engines. Now you can install a Google Trends on your website thanks to this little widget.
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6 May, 2009
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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5 May, 2009
Protx has finally rebranded to Sage Pay. Following on from the initial announcement on the 16th of April, the Protx brand is being deconstructed to the new Sage Pay. The payment gateway pages have all now been madeover to the new Sage Pay look and feel.
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3 May, 2009
Today is my partners birthday, her 40th birthday, at that. I was supposed to be getting ready shortly to start a BBQ as we have about 30 friends and family about to turn up in the next hour or so looking to be fed. But it’s raining big time, so it looks like its going to be an indoor celebration after all.
Happy 40th Julie Ann 
2 May, 2009
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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23 Apr, 2009
At North South Media we have been popping in and out of various search marketing niches to arm, not only ourselves, but also our readership, with a far better understanding on how the various fragments function. Our latest offering is Social Media and for this interview we got together with one of Scotland’s best and highly vocal social profiles online today : Andrew Burnett. We thoroughly enjoyed our talk and hope you do as well, here’s how it went …
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20 Apr, 2009
A recent eCommerce project brought about the challenge of re-designing the URL involved with the internal pages of the site. Straight away, my internal thoughts said, “Keywords present, dashes seperated, lowercase, nice clean URL’s. Simples!” But this nagging feeling inside, wouldn’t go away. I wanted to make sure what I had read and practiced was actually the best way to proceed in today’s forever changing search environment.
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20 Apr, 2009
Ask.com has brought back their popular man-servant ‘Jeeves’ as part of a UK facelift to entice more searchers to use their search engine instead of Google et al.
Jeeves, himself looks confident in his new look, displaying the thumbs in his jacket lapels displays a very assured look, indeed. Not only, has Ask brought out Jeeves from a 3 year retirement, they’ve also let him loose with their Twitter account (although, their pushing everything through the Hootsuite Toolbar, so expect ads very soon) and also bundled a Facebook profile with him as well, which should be fun.
Ask are hoping the new look will help bump up the numbers of the search engine : they claim it has 15 million monthly UK users.
9 Apr, 2009
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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