Google Street

May 30th, 2007

I have to say that this is rather damn cool. Maybe it is old, but this is very slick Google’s new Street View allows you to walk around the map with pictures to help you familiarise yourself with the surroundings. Drag the little yellow man around and click on him to see the picture of [...]

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Unusual Adwords Creatives

April 17th, 2007

You have to laugh at this sort of thing.  Some very interesting choice of words on this one, hehe

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Google Checkout and Adwords

April 16th, 2007

Whilst doing a little searching I found and adwords ad on search that had a little eye catching symbol. I reckon that this would increase CTR. What do you reckon? Then I also came across this one

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Ads By Google

April 11th, 2007

I noticed this today. Not sure if it is new. I have seen other instances of it. But not one like this.

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Checklist if your Google rankings have dropped

April 2nd, 2007

Whenever anyone asks me to try and find out why their website has dropped in rankings I go through a quick mental checklist to see what may be occurring. This can save loads of time and faffing about as you can zero in on the problem efficiently. Some of these checks can be simple to [...]

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6 Simple Ways to Protect Your Website

March 9th, 2007

There are many things you have to do to protect online assets. These are important things I am referring to, like preventing dupe content and making sure you don’t succumb to a 302 mishap. I was asked the other day if all this checking and securing was going to make any money or make the [...]

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Triple Monitor Setup

March 5th, 2007

it’s simple really, you cant go back, moved from a two screen to a 3. There was a reason for the wide aspect ratio in the middle

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Lazerzubb has a Blog

January 5th, 2007
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Remember that name from the past, you know the man….Lazerzubb wmw profile. Well word on the street is that he has entered the world of having and running a blog. If you dont know the name or the person I suggest you find out, he always had a real business insight and that is proven [...]

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101 Easy Ways to use Google’s New Website Optimizer

December 12th, 2006

I happen to know the people behind this website and they really know their stuff when it comes to user testing. I know some people at the SEO Roadshow met them in Copenhagen. Well they are passing on some good tips for using Google’s Website Optimiser, which is in Beta and I am in the [...]

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Conducting Focus Groups

November 27th, 2006
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Sidenote : Please note I know about the funky formatting problems. I have to fix them. ukgimp. If you are interested in usability and the users perception of your website you can do a lot worse that start to initiate some focus group sessions. You will find out information that that you never dreamed possible. [...]

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