Seo Home blog

BT have “tested” the use of Phorm to match adverts to some 30,000 broadband users in the uk without telling them..

Loads of loads of BT customers got in contact with the bbc this morning regarding how unhappy their web surffing was being tracked by BT..

Nicholas Bohm, of the Foundation for Information Policy Research, said tests without the knowledge of users were “an illegal intercept of users’ data”.

A spokesman for BT said the firm had no comment about the legality or illegality of the 2006 test.

Read more about this here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7325451.stm

 This morning on bbc news reports interviewed parents at london science museum regarding pricary setting on socail networks.

Most of parents hadn’t got a clue but most of the kids interviewed did..

The report suggested that over half of UK childen are now listed on social networks with bebo being the largest in the uk for under 18’s …

The report also suggest govermental reccomendations regarding putting a 999 banner so that kids could phone up the police if they felt at risk from someone on the likes of bebo, facebook etc..

Sadly bbc hasn’t put anything online about this report as yet but times has the following:

To counter the problem, the Home Office will announce on Friday a new voluntary code of conduct for social networks. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are to agree that, when under18s set up profiles, they will be set to a high privacy setting as a default. To counter the problem, the Home Office will announce on Friday a new voluntary code of conduct for social networks. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook are to agree that, when under18s set up profiles, they will be set to a high privacy setting as a default.

 Children’s social network pages ‘must have privacy lock’ - http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3663312.ece

My friend just IM me this whilst talking about tomorrow.. Yep is the 14th..

 I think the day should be banned. It just rubs it in for the terminally single

So regarding seo have you covered and bases for the “terminally single”

seo-singles.com ? 

single-beds.com ?

i-am-alone.com ?

 I wonder just how many search will contain “-valentines ”

So from a seo point of view you may wish to target “-valentines” in the likes of adwords etc…

Enjoy the day : )

EDIT:

ADDED QUOTE:

I have actually contemplated downgrading my bed to give me more room

hehehhee

I’ve just been looking at some of my referrals from yesterday..

I came accross pipl.. I’ve seen it before and the data it has on me and my friends if pretty amazing..

Its tagged me/friends with some of the keywords that we have been seo’ing for a while..

I’ve also seen ICQ listings with address and phone number etc of friends.. It would seem this site has gathered more info than when I last looked.. It would be a great tool for people to checkout who is who…

Word of warning use a aka that in no way relates to you OR be open with what you do… If your outspoken which i’m not then I’d look at the aka route..

Anyway enjoy looking up your friends or seo’s here: http://pipl.com

No this isn’t a guide.. OR a top 10 OR a How to LOL..

This is my A to Z list of Social sites…

Most you are likely to know but I put a few golden ones hidden in the list Enjoy …

So lets kick off with no other than A

NOTE: PR and Alexa are what I see in my browser right now 

A - http://www.agentb.com/  - Shopping - general - PR3 - Alexa 300k +

B - http://photobucket.com/  - photo - general - PR8 - Alexa 33

C - http://www.contentpop.com/ News - general - PR4 - Alexa 200k +

D - http://del.icio.us/  Book marking - Everything - PR8 - Alexa 388

E - http://www.espinthebottle.com/  Teen - Sick and wrong lol - PR5 - Alexa 15k+ (wow)

F - http://www.furl.net/ Info / news - General - PR7 - Alexa 5K+

G - http://www.godtube.com/ God stuff - video - PR5 - Alexa 7k+

H - http://www.hanzoweb.com/   Archiver - PR5 - Alexa 100k+

I - http://www.icerocket.com/ General - PR7 - Alexa 12k+

J - http://www.jeteye.com/  Jet packs - General - PR6 - Alexa 100k+

K - http://www.kaboodle.com/ Shopping - Shopping advice - PR6 - Alexa 500+

L - http://www.librarything.com/ Book - Lidraries world wide - PR7 - Alexa 17k+

M - http://www.mostfashionable.com Fashion - Shopping - PR6 - Alexa 500k+

N - http://www.newsvine.com/  News - General - PR7 - Alexa 5k+

O - http://www.oyax.com/ General - General - PR4 - Alexa 51k+

P - http://www.plugim.com/ General - General - PR4 - Alexa 30k+

Q - http://www.qoolsqool.com/ Book - Study - PR4 - Alexa 300k+

R - http://www.rrove.com/ Map -Trips and tips - PR3 - Alexa 350k+

S - http://www.stylehive.com/ Shopping - Style - PR5 - Alexa 16k+

T - http://www.technorati.com/ Blog - Blogging - PR8 - Alexa 400

U - http://upian.com/  Web - French - PR6 - Alexa 250k+

V - http://www.virb.com/ General - Music themed - PR6 - Alexa 12k+

W - http://www.wists.com/ Shopping - Images - PR6 - Alexa 36k+

X - http://www.xing.com/ People - Job - PR7 - Alexa 1K+

Y - http://www.yoono.com/ General - Like SU - Alexa 72K+

Z - http://www.zebo.com/ Shopping - Cool stuff - Alexa 12k+

At last…

The hangover cure has come about as of yesterday for (some of) us web site owners / seo and webmasters (in general)

Yep.. The loss of xmas site traffic is on its way back…

Please note this is a hangover cure for the site(s) I monitor but w00t.. Its good to see the traffic and $$$$ coming back…

Sadly I haven’t got any stats on the proportion sites xmas related vs not…

Well…. My experiences so far with adding xmas sections to site especially UK targeted is that no one seems to be surfing in the subject area I cover, pre xmas oh yes but during nop.. I’ve read reports that on xmas day and boxing day that “some” sites have/had massive traffic manily with shopping bargins and kids stuff…

hmm..

Anyway… All the best for the new year and hope everyones traffic grows : )

All over the news today and over the 2-3months is the fact that the biggest growing internet users are OLD…

The grey pound £££

All over the bbc today is a new social networking site for the oldies … http://www2.saga.co.uk/sagazone/

Saga is massive in the uk offering insurance, holiday’s etc… all designed for the grey generation!..

This is going to be a newplace to promote sites

I just need a name now

Just over 2 months ago I launched a new site…

I already have quite a few sites in that niche

One of the older sites is a forum with some 6,000+ members (about 100 aday a “really” active)

Anyway.. 2 months ago I started my 3rd social book marking site… The first 2 weeks hit the viral seen big time

Its 2 months on and google is only #3 even with the site ranking well already… You can guess what no1 ? Another social site.. YEP SU!!!

Anyway anyone launching a new site should waiting for ranking’s and just build links like the old days… Get viral… This is nothing new but I thought I’d post my stats after 2 months of life:

Referring Sites (76.69%)
Direct Traffic (12.74%)
Search Engines (10.57%)

The best thing that got this going was a competition… with over 4,000 backlinks almost all deep and now added by myself is an interesting site to watch!

This is one odd idea…

Basically the top google keyword news trends have been prints on to cushions …

Why ?

hmmm.. don’t know..

fantastic and alarming at the same time!
The top 10 google searches of 2006
each cushion is signed and numbered from an edition of 250

Wonder who would buy these ??

Buy them here

Each year the traffic drops in many theme’s and this year is no exception..

Summer 2007 in the uk has had massive effects on traffic levels due to the following: (imho)

• The rain
  This is a 50/50 as hot sunny days in the uk seem to send more traffic but with the flooding 1,000’s of people have no access to water let alone the net..
• Harry Potter…
  omg the affect on non kids/book/harry potter sites was pretty big in the last week or two.. Not only the book but the film double trouble..
• Forecast..
  Now I’ve mentioned rain but so many UK’ers that would holiday in the uk have been going aboard… Since the floods many holidays have gone up in price and move Hol’s have been sold compared with last yeh…

Basically the niche’s I work in are not weather,harry potter,forecasting, flooding, kids or holidays… Of course all these theme’s “should” of seen a increase and  not a loss..