Google displaying an additional search box in SERPs
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 5th, 2008 Published in: Google, Local Search, Search EnginesCheck this out:
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Pretty neat huh? I’m seeing the additional search box added to quite a few SERPs today – seems to be only for site names just now. I know TheBestOf use the Google Search Appliance for internal searches and I also see the search box on results for Youtube, Amazon and a few other big [...]
b10g looking for PPC specialists…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 3rd, 2008 Published in: PPC, SEO Agencies…and are asking candidates to sell themselves using 95 characters or less! Â Great to see companies taking an interesting approach to recruitment!
I’ve worked with Dave and Paul Carruthers before and they both know their stuff – well worth a look at the job posting if you are looking for work just now. Check [...]
Yahoo! Search to offer an open search platform
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: Local Search, Search Engine Optimisation, YahooYahoo announced today the launch of Yahoo! Search Experience, a 3rd party development platform to enable websites to include more information in Yahoo! search results.
This new scheme looks pretty cool and seems to be somewhat of a competing service to Google’s Universal Search / Local Search / etc. Check out the screenshot on the Y! [...]
BBPR (Band & Brown) email spamming for Jobsite.co.uk
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 18th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, SpamYeh that’s right. Only a few weeks after Jobsite’s SEO agency were spamming my forums, their PR agency (BBPR.com aka Band & Brown) are now spamming my inbox with emails promoting a new site launch! Lol, seriously!Â
Yes, that’s only a few weeks when Gary Robinson, Marketing Manager for Jobsite.co.uk came here and said, “[we] by no means [...]
Jobsite.co.uk forum spam follow up
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 15th, 2008 Published in: Humour, Marketing, Public Relations, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamFollowing on from my post last month about Jobsite.co.uk spamming my forums I thought I would do a little homework on the subject. Some may consider this a pointless exercise, and to a certain extent it is – it won’t change anything – I won’t get back the time I spent deleting their spam and [...]
Wikipedia now ranks higher than Google for “PageRank”
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 14th, 2008 Published in: Google PageRank, Search Engine OptimisationIsn’t it about time that Google had a little look at how hard and fast Wikipedia is ranking in the SERPs? Wikipedia now ranks number 1 for the term “pagerank“, with the official Google PageRank page at 2.Â
Not sure how long this has been the case, but aren’t we beyond the point where perceived authority [...]
Free your content by breaking the shackles of search engine optimisation
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 14th, 2008 Published in: Copywriting for SEO, Search Engine Optimisation, SpamI think most of us know the difference between a quality article and a spammy optimised one, but there is a line in the middle that a lot of us tread. The line itself is very grey for most people, but personally I think there is a clear difference that is very easy to spot. [...]