Nov 09
29
So it’s Sunday morning, my kids have had a change of plan and I’ve got two hours to kill before going off to the ‘Wood’ for dinner with Dad and co. So in true it’s almost Christmas what the hell do I buy for everyone style, here are seven gift ideas for dudes and geeks.
Looking for gifts for ones dad or brother, or boyfriend or husband at Christmas is never easy – I’m not saying this post will make that task any easier either and most of these ideas for Christmas gifts are quite probably a little out of the budget range for some, but…,you might be feeling generous so what the hey. There’s a mixed bag ranging from a tenner up to a couple of k, so fill your proverbial boots.
Search Marketing Services Holistic Search
SERP Ajaxification Gives Your GA Data Juice!
I read a great post yesterday on Joost’s blog by Andre Scholten that discussed tracking keyword ranking positions in Google Analytics – genius and well, I could babble on about it forever as it has been the missing part in any analysis for like, ever! Excellent stuff guys!
It’s all been made possible by the ajaxification of the Google serps . Matt Cutts talked about this ajaxification back in March, (you can see it on youtube here ) saying that Google were testing and that < 1% of users would see this behaviour. Based on my numbers, it would seem that this test has been ramped up some as at least 8% of my visitors used this yesterday to reach the site I’m discussing.
So, with all this in mind I thought it would be cool to set it up and to see what kinds of traffic share each position gave. It’s a limited sample of 1 days data( follow up post will follow with bigger numbers) showing amongst other things the importance of position one in Goog for ones keywords and the value of choosing a good SEO to get you there.
Update: Awesome Approved
There’s a lil bita buzz in the twitter and blogosphere today over the whole spotify app approval thing with Apple and iTunes.
To be honest, I’ve no idea what’s going to happen – I don’t know, Apple top execs do, Spotify insiders prolly have an inkling ( and a strategy) but that’s about all I can deduce from these 969k or so blades of grass in my garden.
What I do know is that Spotify is absolutely kick, I mean, I seriously love it to death – fast, useful, free or cheap, and has literally changed the way I access and listen to music.
I was an avid, blip.fm and last.fm user, for a time; but both offered restrictions to market, or offered urls to iTune purchaes that didn’t work. Today I use them, but only for the community value add sense.
See, I like quirky, obscure, niche stuff that, doesnt really have a mass market and is prolly quite hard to find too. Prior to these services, I had to be content w/ a little judge jules or ancient Danny Rampling to fire up my old skool house dancey shoes.
Aug 09
14
We need a new SEO head in the Latitude London SEO team – It’s a Junior Role, so a great opp to learn lots and work with a great bunch of nerds. If interested please at me on @robwatts on twitter and I’ll get back to you. Requirements – An absolute demonstrable Passion For Search! You’ll be able to demonstrate your knowledge of search, evident through your participation and general knowledge.
You’ll be working with great brands and will get an excellent grounding in search and onlihne marketing from a group of people who live and breath it daily, it really is a great opportunity.
I hope to hear from you soon!
I was talking w/ a colleague the other day about Online PR versus Off site SEO. Whilst chatting it became clear that in the minds of some people out there that a degree of confusion exists around the terminologies due in the main, to the many cross overs of both.
I thought it might be useful therefore, to layout the benefits of each, and highlight what they do, and show the commonalities and differences of each, showing both how they may be perceived and the benefits of each of their respective approaches.