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UK Traffic trends for December 2009

Posted on January 5, 2010 by gabs

TweetI spend my sad life getting traffic to sites mainly in the UK and monitoring them like a hawk… This is post is nothing to do with conversions as I’d need pages and pages to explian my thought process with … Continue reading →

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How to add sitelinks to your google PPC ads

Posted on November 4, 2009 by gabs

TweetFollowing on from the announcement by google today (here) about the sitelinks in google ads I thought I’d show a screen shot of how to add them. As always barry at SER has blog a front end example here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021070.html … Continue reading →

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Google sitelinks with dots?

Posted on November 4, 2009 by gabs

TweetThis is a first for me… I’ve not seen dots before. hmmm Maybe a test ? I’ve just ran a load of searches and can only find this one example. Anyway here is a screen shot. Notice the … after … Continue reading →

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google shopping geo out on mobiles

Posted on September 30, 2009 by gabs

TweetSo last night I was surfing around on the Iphone looking for a new SLR digi camera. I went to google shopping (base) to have a looky… So what was wrong? I was on google.co.uk and the prices all came … Continue reading →

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Music back on Youtube uk

Posted on September 3, 2009 by gabs

TweetPRS http://www.prsformusic.com and youtube have stuck a deal at last.. Each time you watch a music video on youtube in the uk the artist will now get some £ from youtube. In march 2009 youtube in the uk took off … Continue reading →

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Death by facebook

Posted on September 2, 2009 by gabs

TweetThe power is facebook is shown in this example of why a man killed his partner after she changed her Facebook status from “married” to “single”. The story goes along the lines of the lady was an avid facebook user. … Continue reading →

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Lead and google earth

Posted on September 2, 2009 by gabs

TweetSome negative reports from the bbc today about google earth about people using it to rob churches lead from the roofs. A wave of people taking lead from roofs of many churches and other buildings have be hitting the uk … Continue reading →

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£17.36 per visitor, nice deal!

Posted on August 13, 2009 by gabs

TweetI get a lot of sales calls trying to be sold x,y,z on the web… Some times I think running adwords can hurt more than help but I stick with it 🙂 Anyway.. I’m not here to name and shame … Continue reading →

Posted in internet trends, Links - buying/selling | Tagged | 2 Comments

Could this be the end of UK serps

Posted on June 29, 2009 by gabs

TweetI’m not alone in moaning about the uk serps Take a look at a few of these posts http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/020175.html and http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google/big-geo-problems-still-exist-in-google-uk-serps plus many others.. Well.. Just now google have changed the UI on google.co.uk serps … WARNING THIS IS NOT … Continue reading →

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Google pushing chrome on UK IE users!!

Posted on April 17, 2009 by gabs

TweetWow.. Google not just adding a little link to chrome at the bottom but a massive graphic at the top of the page… Crazy…. Check out the screen shot or visit google.co.uk

Posted in google chrome, UK | Tagged , | 8 Comments