Worried about the new EU Privacy directive, cookies and what it means for Google Analytics on your website? There’s been some new clarification today from the UK Government. “We talked about cookies (how could we not?) but we didn’t get hung up on them – other relevant technologies e.g. HTML5 Local Storage and web beacons [...]
Facebook Timeline For Brand Pages Just Killed Google+ Or What?
I’ve been wrong before – but (on the surface) Google have just about copied the old Facebook with Google+ (sure – there is good stuff in there too) – just as Facebook moves to a new concept for businesses – Facebook Brand Pages. Facebook timeline for brand pages is potentially a very, very useful tool [...]
Google Toolbar Pagerank Update 6 Feb 2012
Graphic by Elliance – First sourced at Search Engine Land I’m seeing a Google Toolbar Pagerank Update on pages of this site and on some new sites launched recently. I think that would make it about 3 months since the last network update. Does anyone care about Google Toolbar Pagerank these days? I still look at it, [...]
SEO: Tweets Or Links
Is traditional link building dead? Are tweets the new links? Not for me, just yet….. Pointblank SEO has a good post with 24 seo discussing the power of social website links (like ‘tweets’) versus traditional links like blog posts (for example). You should read it. I don’t think Google is about to throw away it’s $10bn [...]
Topseos Review | The Complaints Awards 2012
(This will be my last ever post on this nonsense. I have also been told I am not allowed to play on Twitter today as I have excel spreadsheets to work.) When I wrote my post about TopsSEOs recently (which was retweeted some very influential seo) and questioned the reporting by the Drum Magazine in Scotland, [...]
