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Twitter Search is Evolving

CNET reports about two major upcoming changes to Twitter search.  Twitter search has a massive amount of potential but has been seriously overlooked so far.  That’s about to change. Firstly Twitter is about to start crawling and indexing the links that are tweeted to provide a far broader view of what’s popular at the moment.  [...]

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Google gets it VERY wrong

On Friday I spoke about the trust that can easily be generated just by having a top ranking in Google for a relevant search term.  The findings of a recent survey showed that by having a top ranking, people assumed that you were an expert in your field.  What this means is that people are [...]

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Why Search Engine Submission is Bad

I was checking out some of my competitor’s websites a few days ago (something I recommend that you do periodically) and was amazed to see that some of them were still offering a ‘search engine submission’ service. There may have been some value in this service back in 1997 but to offer this as a [...]

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What search engine is the most important for my traffic?

Whenever I speak about SEO, I generally always talk about Google rather than Yahoo, Live, Ask or whatever.  I’ve been told that I should refer to search engines generically, and that’s good advice, but I think I can be forgiven when you look at the market share that Google has. In the UK, Google controls [...]

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Does your website say anything about you at all?

One of the great things about my job is that you’re asked to look at lots of different types of websites and suggest what can be done to them to help their search engine performance and their marketing performance. it’s not as simple as one might hope.  I’ve seen some really awful looking websites that [...]

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