Tag: UK
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Google to target Payday Loans in the UK
The new penguin update 2.0 OR #4 is coming in the next few weeks and Matt Cutts of google’s spam team (search quality) have realised a video yesterday about up and coming updates including the awaited penguin 2.0 or #4 Check out the post over at seroundtable here for more discussion. Here is the video: What’s…
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UK Traffic trends for December 2009
I 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 examples of what has and hasn’t worked and what has changed over the years of…
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google shopping geo out on mobiles
So 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 up in GBP £ fine… I then clicked option to set and price range for…
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Music back on Youtube uk
PRS 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 the music video’s which you can read about here: click here Today PRS and youtube…
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Could this be the end of UK serps
I’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 GOOD IF YOU FROM THE UK So the serps are bad already.. yes we agree…
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Google pushing chrome on UK IE users!!
Wow.. 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
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florence nightingale’s birthday
Today in 1920 Florence nightingale was born! Today in 2008 google.co.uk give respest to her on the google.co.uk homepage with a new google logo link to http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=florence+nightingale%27s+birthday&hl=en With the query “florence nightingale’s birthday” This isn’t showing on the google.com homepage for me “yet” .. UK thing 🙂 Here is the logo:  Here is a…
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google.co.uk push igoogle with artist Jeff Koons theme.
On the uk homepage of google today we have a funky logo from the artist Jeff koons promoting the igoogle theme homepage on the uk public. Who is jeff Koons? American artist Jeff Koons burst onto the international art scene in the 1980s. He creates iconic work such as Michael Jackson and Bubbles, Rabbit, and…
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Google – about to overtake ITV in the UK
Google uk is just about to overtake ITV for the amount of cash made from advertising.. In the first 3 months of this year google has made$803 million( about £407m)a massive 40% up on a year ago. Hitwise reports some 78% of searches are made on google by UK internet users in 2007 but i’m…