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Think Visibility : An Overview

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Paul Steven

Leading Up To Think Visibility

Over the weekend I travelled down to Leeds to attend the Think Visibility one-day conference hosted by Dominic ‘The Hodge’ Hodgson and the Think Visibility team. It has to be stated, days prior to my departure, I was not in the best of health, in fact my wife and family were in heavy persuasion mode to get me to just stay at home and recuperate. Despite, their attention (2 yr olds can be so persuasive when telling Daddy to stay at home) I climbed into the car and decided that Leeds should at least share in the ‘Tropical Disease‘ that was coursing through my brittle bones. And off to Think Visibility I went!

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The Twitter Cull Why its Necessary

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Paul Steven

Each and every month, normally around the beginning of the month, I run a Cull on the people I’m following on Twitter. Why? We’ll, to cut to the chase, I like to rub out those that just don’t do it at any sort of level. I guess, what i am trying to say, is that perhaps after a certain period of time, no matter what another individual is posting (tweeting) to yourself and many others that they have also befriended, you just don’t want to hear their crap no longer.

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Hacking is it a Form of SEO

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Paul Steven

I’m writing this post after a heated debate (let’s really call it tepid, tbh) between, Matt Cutts, Head of Google Search spam team and Michael Grey, re-knowned American blogger and Search Consultant, better known to many as Graywolf. The jist of the debate was around some hackers cracking into a considerable number of UK School websites and injecting porn links within the hacked websites copy : source.

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For Suffix Sake How Do you Handle Multiple TLD’S

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Paul Steven

Just a couple of days ago, I purchased the .com suffix of North South Media, after a 3 year chase it then dawned on me – how the heck do I proceed to build the .com domain into the continued growth of the company! We have a successful .co.uk suffix running that is entirely focussed on the UK market – but is weak in the competitive international market, mostly dominated by .com suffixes.

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Search Engines Canonical Tag

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Paul Steven

On Thursday, 12th of February, Google, Yahoo and MSN officialy announced the introduction of their canonical tag which will help webmasters stop their sites falling foul of the duplicate content filter. For the less-informed amongst you, Google and other search engines cache (store in their index) different url’s related to your website. So, for example, they might see a page within a site called :

http://www.yourdomain.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&category=gummy-candy

also accessed as
http://www.yourdomain.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&trackingid=1234&sessionid=5678

By using the new canonical tag, you can present your preffered url like so :

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Usability The Word That Strikes Fear in Most Web Designers

Posted on February 7, 2009 by Paul Steven

Back in 2002 I read an intersting article, of which the main theme was the introducion of usability techniques on web sites to help enhance a persons web browsing experience. The article spoke of designing sites where the end-user could get to the most important information in the fewest clicks and without the website performing all sorts of weird tricks on the browser the user was using to surf the site with i.e. resizing the browser window, links that opened up in a new window and the fact that the majority of ecommerce sites sucked big time.

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Google’s Unfortunate Malware Event

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Paul Steven

We all suffer from them from time to time, a series of unfortunate events that may not be massive or life-ending but you can do without them just the same. Google, the search giant, has had a few of their own unfortunate events over the last 48 hrs. First off, the news broke on Friday the 30th of January, that a Google Street View vehicle had hit a small deer and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. Like I said, nothing shattering, just an unfortunate event, that’s all, then this happened …

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Ambushing Twitter Celebrity Profiles

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Paul Steven

Twitter is fast becoming the mainstream micro blogging tool of choice. Much in the same way as Apple’s iPod cornered the music-on-the-move market – Twitter is branching its way into the hearts and minds of the public. It is also getting a helping hand from a number of celebrities beginning to use it as a way to communicate with their fan base. And therein lies a problem in the making.

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Social Media A Beginner’s Guide For Business

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Paul Steven

Late last night I finished reading, ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media‘ an E-Book available to download from Blah Blah Technology and written by Wayne Smallman. There have been very few e-books which I have started and read till the end, however this is one which held my interest even when I was puffed out from a long day and looking to grab some much-needed sleep.

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Think Visibility Conference 2009

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Paul Steven

I just signed up for the Think Visibility conference at Leeds in March 2009. I’m really looking forward to this, as some of the guest speakers include Tim Nash, Patrick Altoft, Tom Critchlow and Dave Naylor. Of course there are a whole host of other names that I’ll also be checking out. But the best thing about this conference is the price … £30.00 … that’s right, thirty smackeroos to hear some of the best names in search talk … it dosen’t get much better than that.

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