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How We Interact With Search Engines

We use them everyday, infact without them, the internet would be useless, I guess it’s hard to imagine why such websites of importance are private companies rather than free or government run services. Ok course, before you wonder if I have gone mad – I’m talking about search engines. In the beginning, we all know [...]

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Traffic Vs Quality Traffic

When it comes to websites, we all want more traffic, or do we? So I though I’d talk about the heated debate of targeted traffic vs mass traffic. I guess it comes down to the example of having a website on selling spoons, but bringing trafffic for knives, forks, plates and even something else completely [...]

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Google Chrome & How to Enable Home Button

When it comes to browsing the web, there is a new kid on the block. It’s Google, the 10 year birthday of google (the mega evil search engine company), and they’ve decided to make the other big boys Microsoft a little bit more scared – welcome Chrome. What is Chrome? Chrome is a new browser [...]

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Flash and SEO Not a Lost Cause?

When the worlds of SEO and flash collide, web designers cringe at the thought of developing the two together. The reason? Search engines cannot understand what is essentially an image. If a site welcomed you saying ”click here to view the gallery”, Google & other search engines wouldn’t flinch. They’re dumb robots, after all. To draw up a solution, let’s start by [...]

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Basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Considering out sourcing your SEO isn’t always a bad idea, but before you consider it you can do some basic things to help your website and how it ranks. So this article is appropriatley named the basics of search engine optimisation (SEO). Well lets start with what search engine optimisation is – It’s where a [...]

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Cool Cuil Puts Two Fingers Up at Google

http://www.cuil.com/ – made by Anna Patterson, and this time its not for sale! Last time Google thought it was so impressive they used it to upgrade their own systems. Anyway, the latest invesntion Cuil, pronounced ‘cool’ which already gets the thumbs up from us for having an awesome name. It was made by 2 other [...]

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Web 2.0 Dead?

If you’ve actually used the internet you would have come across a Web 2.0 website, something such as Myspace, Facebook, Flickr, or other pointless sites to help you waste your time or feed that web addiction. Well before I go into the point I want to make in this article, lets just explain what Web 2.0 [...]

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Use Google Adwords Locality

Google has made a great advancement, one probably worth talking about! – imagine you want to show your google ads, but only to users in a certain place, county or town! Well now with a locality tool, which we love, you can! – though we must stress through experience it is only 90% accurate. For [...]

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Yahoo PPC in the Dark Age

This doesn’t just apply to Yahoo, when we think about PPC (pay per click), it’s been arround for ages, pretty much since the web began, but seeing as Google is the new kid on the block, how come Yahoo, MSN, haven’t jumped on the band wagon to improve their PPC services. For example, there is [...]

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Pay Per Click Nightmare

Sometimes one of your best tools can be your greatest nightmare, something so erratic as pay per click trends can sometimes take more of your time than you would like and certainly cost you an arm and a leg to perfect. Of course when you break pay per click down to its basics, the aim [...]

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