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Optimising for the Long Tail

What is the Long Tail and why is it important for Search Engine Optimisation. Well, the term “Long Tail” was coined by Chris Anderson in Wired magazine and relates to the impact of focusing on niche strategies and how this is a viable competitive model…. Read more »

The Art of Seduction

One of the great things about the Internet is that it provides a window onto all sorts of activities that you may or may not come across in your normal day to day life. Case in point was a website I ended up on today…. Read more »

Happy Birthday DesignQuote.net

Wow, I’ve just found out that DesignQuote.net has just celebrated it’s 1st birthday, and has been used to post over $3.5 million worth of jobs for their clients. If you haven’t come across them before, they provide a marketplace for web design jobs allowing companies… Read more »

Paid Search is a lot like Dating

Just came across an excellent post that compares Paid Search to Dating and draw some interesting conclusions. The analogy seems to work pretty well, putting forward some great advice like, including realising that listening (campaign monitoring) is important and usually many guys are after that… Read more »

Microsoft looking to buy a chunk of Facebook?

I’ve just read an article in the Wall Street Journal that almost sounds as speculative as a search engine marketing blog. It talks about how Microsoft is try to acquire a stake in FaceBook as part of their ploy to wrest Internet dominance from Google…. Read more »

Facebook goes large

The news in the press today is that Facebook has just acquired Parakey. For those who haven’t heard of Parakey before, they’re an outfit working on closing the gap between the Internet and your desktop. The founders of this “Web-OS” company are Blake Ross and… Read more »

It’s all about perception

Small businesses have a lot to gain from pulling together a good trade show. However, all too often, small businesses are the ones who do most badly, and it’s usually a problem of image, how they are percieved by others. I’ve seen way too many… Read more »