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Google to allow gambling ads on its UK Adwords SERPs

Posted by robwatts on October 16, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Pretty big news from Latitude,  Google are to allow gambling ads on UK Adwords!
Due to recent changes in legislation laws surrounding online gambling advertising, Google had decided as of tomorrow to allow gambling PPC adverts to be shown in the UK. They have been speaking direct to clients to ensure all the correct licensing information [...]

Google Like it – Promote your site in your SERPs

Posted by robwatts on January 20, 2008 at 8:11 pm

Here’s an interesting little thing.
This button (fig. 1b) will move the result to the top of the page and add this orange marker (fig. 1a) next to it so you can easily recognize it. The result(s) you promote will appear at the top whenever you search for the same keyword(s) in [...]

Meanwhile in a search engine vortex oft 53rd street..

Posted by robwatts on December 3, 2007 at 7:46 pm
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Very soon, you’ll no longer have to confess to being a sinner in order to use Googles re-inclusion or reconsideration request ( I suspect it’ll be called the take me off the naughty list next week, being xmas and all that)
This is a good thing, a small thing, but a good thing nonetheless. Anything that [...]

Don’t ever bank on free traffic, build on it

Posted by robwatts on October 25, 2007 at 8:42 pm

Maki wrote a good blog post today that for me spoke about marketing and creating things of value that have the efffect of creating converted users; that’s, people who will buy into whatever it is you do or are trying to achieve.
Be it via a comment, a hit of a subscription button, an add to [...]

Does Google have anything to fear from the blogosphere?

Posted by robwatts on October 14, 2007 at 2:41 pm

Not another paid links post (groan)
The whole paid links are evil for Google idea has been around for some time now. This isn’t a rehash of those. I want to pass comment on how lately that there’s been a lot of Google ill feeling going on, with an increasing number of prominent people speaking [...]