Anyone who knows Google, knows how clever their search algo is, but what about their business model? This presentation goes into their business model in some detail, giving you a real sense of the range and cleverness behind what they do. My insight for SEO? You need to think user benefit…Big G will get progressively [...]
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Google – the business overview
December 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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Wisdom of crowds, memes and affilaite marketing
September 17th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been very interested in the whole human + connectivity, nature of the Internet and how it can be a great gatherer of collective application and a way for spreading ideas fast. Te best book I know on collective consciousness and prediction outcome is probably the Wisdom of crowds. After about 1/2 way through the [...]
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My Wordcamp presentation on SEO (Powerpoint)
July 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments
wordcamp-presenation (powerpoint) The text: SEO is complex! (click on the image for the big version) Its like baking a cake: Complex way: The easy way: Take 4oz (about 100g) of butter, caster sugar, self raising flour and 2 eggs Sieve the flour before adding to the mixture. Whisk the butter and sugar together until the [...]
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Google reviewer guidelines
March 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment
In case you ever wondered – yes Google do use humans to augment their search index. From what I gather its about 10,000 in total. Obviously, thats a speculative number, but the point is that your site will be human checked if you rank for anything meaningful. This doesnt mean Google human rank the index, [...]
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My really useful SEO reading list
September 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Yes ! every SEO’er needs to be on the ball! and to do that you will need to read HUUUUUGGGGEE numbers of relevant blog posts. So I thought I would share my RSS list with you and share this very useful site to help you read them faster ! Speed reading – tips and tutorials [...]
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Some useful SEO tools
August 26th, 2007 · No Comments
You are probably familiar with ‘power using’ Google, but in case you’re not: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html and here is an article from an online pr site which explains why these are useful for understand keyword competition.
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