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This morning Google returned a box asking if I wanted to narrow my very generic search by postcode. Just another way of using Google Local to help the searcher, or nothing more than a bigger pain for SEO? Read more
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Yeah, apparently we’re missing out on crucial traffic from Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia by only having English-language pages on our UK-based site for our UK-based business...Ahem. Read more
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We found a page blocked in a robots.txt showing PageRank in the toolbar. Then we noticed a number of blocked pages showing up in a site: search. Nice one Google. Read more
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Bit of fun for xmas but the last one is alarmingly true!! Read more
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If Google Local listings show business names only but still bold the keywords, what implications will this have for businesses’ offline traffic where they don’t have a keyword rich business name, especially now that people use the internet to… Read more
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Looking for suggestions and requests for features to go in a new free online reputation management tool. Currently it will search a variety of social media, online PR and search engines but the developer would like to know what else online marketers… Read more
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"Business blogging is not always easy." Here’s some great ideas for 50 business blog posts. Read more
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Is the credit crunch affecting your business?

If your experience is similar to that of any business which I’ve spoken to, from small one man bands right through to SMEs and blue chips, the answer is probably no. In fact, the vox emptor… Read more
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What are your top 10 signs that your online marketing has stagnated? Share yours in the comments of this Sphinn. ;) Read more
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The last post you’ll ever need on Google Analytics, covering ecommerce, advanced PPC keyword tracking, cross-domain analytics and more! Read more
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PDFs in Google Search Results Showing Author & Cited in Description Snippets. Read more
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Tad Chef writes "How to measure website success when rankings, Google PageRank and sheer traffic have gone the way of “hits”: All these older metrics become more and more meaningless in the current web environment.

Why measure ranking… Read more
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Google analytics now shows traffic for Chrome. Read more
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Tips on how to maximise your PPC campaigns in these lean times..... Read more
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Find out whether Google Chrome is the fastest browser. A comparison against Opera, Safari, Firefox and IE. Read more
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Interesting point that seems to have been missed in the rush to try out Google’s new browser. Read more
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No marketing campaign can work without proper research into the target markets. This gives a great list of sites that produce information and data that if used with a bit of creativity can serve as brilliant market research tools. Read more
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Good post by Mindy for helping business owners steer away from SEM cowboys. Read more
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So is Link Building really dead take a look at what Lee Odden has to say! "However, there’s a big difference between link building to content & content promotion that attracts links. Long term, promotion of content that attracts relevant links from… Read more
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Michael Gray takes a purely hypothetical look importing wikipedia content into Knol and making it one huge scraper site, i Read more
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A great article about Microsoft Browserank, a pagerank alternative from Microsoft.

Although I am not in alignment that Google doesn’t use any user behavior data as the article implies. Read more
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The Beeb cover the rise of online hoaxes and even mention SEO’s very own Lyndon from Cornwall SEO Read more
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From the "Now you tell me" department: here are some additional Adwords keyword insertion tags you may or may not know about. Google isn’t exactly forthcoming with information like this, are they? Read more
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Interesting piece with advice on how to overcome problems of canonical url’s. Read more
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I’ve recently come across this blog - these guys seem to be writing some interesting posts.

This one’s quite controversial and worth a read Read more
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