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Blog Posts During November 2007No GPS? Mobile search pushes past the hardware bottleneck.Posted on 28th November 2007 at 11:07 am by Manley
GPS for mobile devices is not new. Handsets with GPS capabilities have been around for a while now, but take-up has been slow, with only an estimated 15% of handsets being sold with an in-built capability and sales of GPS SIM cards still in their infancy. Are Google the irresistible force and the immovable object?Posted on 26th November 2007 at 4:24 pm by Chris Dugdale
Google seem utterly unassailable as king of the search hill, but equally their tide of acquisitions seems equally unstoppable. What are they up to and where can it lead? Christmas is coming, the site logs are getting fat.Posted on 21st November 2007 at 4:12 pm by Chris Dugdale
Christmas is a time of wanton spending, and spending is increasingly moving on-line. Everyone wants a piece of the action but there are only so many places on the first page of search results. Search engine sideshows; product placement or data mines?Posted on 17th November 2007 at 2:42 pm by Manley
Acquisitions. Everyone is making them, often with no obvious ROI. Google play fair on Pay-Per-ClickPosted on 15th November 2007 at 3:58 pm by Manley
Google is changing the format of Pay-Per-Click AdWords appearing on AdSense sites to reduce the cost to advertisers from accidental clicks. This move looks like it will slash revenue for the search giant. Is Google playing fair at its own cost or is this a shrewd commercial move? XML Sitemaps; the answer to your indexing problems?Posted on 14th November 2007 at 11:34 am by Manley
XML sitemaps are widely used, they are supported by all the major search engines and they pretty much guarantee that your pages will get crawled. Is this an SEO tool which is too good to be true? Three cheers for DDA compliance.Posted on 12th November 2007 at 3:24 pm by Chris Dugdale
Google have recently passed comment on the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon; surely the very Earth itself must tremble with the weight of wisdom being imparted. No? Oh well. Search engine relevance and keyword selection.Posted on 10th November 2007 at 10:22 am by Manley
Relevance, or at least user perception of relevance, is of massive importance to search engines, but there is still a limit to what they can glean from a user's search terms. Better geographic choices, but only with Google.Posted on 7th November 2007 at 9:45 am by Manley
Google Webmaster Tools now allows verified site owners and webmasters to set the geographic location of their target audience; is this a useful addition or a token gesture? |