Internet and Ownership / UK SEO Poll

by October 18, 2010

In my latest column for the Belfast Telegraph I explore the way the internet has changed our perception of ownership. We no longer truly own the stuff we buy, we merely lease it from the manufacturer, the latter maintaining near-total control over the product. Belfast Telegraph: How the internet has changed the concept of ownership [...]

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AI and the Internet / Keyword Research for Email Marketing

by October 7, 2010

My latest endeavour for the State of Search blog was not a typical SEO blog post. Instead I went in to full geek mode and wrote about one of my deepest fascinations: artificial intelligence, and how it relates to the internet in general and search engines specifically: State of Search: Google, the Internet, and Artificial [...]

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SEO Back to Basics / Mobile Apps and Journalism

by September 21, 2010

For State of Search I aimed my verbal barbs at some of the search engine industry’s greatest myths and misconceptions. There is so much uncertainty, fable, and disinformation about proper SEO out there, it’s time to tackle these issues and ensure we’re all working from established best practices: State of Search: SEO Back to Basics [...]

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The Death of SEO / Image Search Optimisation

by August 30, 2010

On the Fire Horse Trail I wrote an article about the impact of the continued ‘appification’ of the Internet on the SEO industry. Will there be SEO when there’s no more World Wide Web? The Fire Horse Trail: The Death of SEO The content contained within apps is invisible for search engines, and app builders [...]

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The Search for News / Understanding Search Engines / SEO Effect

by August 11, 2010

A while back I wrote about the state of search for news. In this blog post I tried to summarise where online journalism stands with regards to SEO, and outlined some tricks SEOs could utilise to enhance their presence in Google News. State of Search: The State of Search for News According to data from [...]

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Battle of the World Cup SERPs

by June 15, 2010

It’s the World Cup and I needed ideas for a new blog post on State of Search, so I compared the SERPs for the ‘world cup’ keyword on five different search engines to see which one provided the best information. State of Search: Battle of the World Cup SERPs Yahoo pulls out all the stops [...]

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SEO for Google News / SEO for Web Developers

by May 17, 2010

Recently I was asked to write for Search Engine People, and I wanted to make sure my first post for them was a solid one: it’s about Google News and what a publisher can do to get more visibility and higher rankings in the world’s most popular news aggregator: Search Engine People: SEO for Google [...]

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The Scope of SEO / Google’s Privacy Woes

by April 28, 2010

For State of Search I wrote a blog post asking some existential questions about what it means to call yourself an SEO. A good SEO is a jack-of-all-trades (and master of a few of them), so does the acronym still apply? State of Search: The scope and limitations of SEO Some have argued that the [...]

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The Similarities Between SEO and Poker

by April 16, 2010

It’s been a slow week as far as writing blog posts is concerned, and if it wasn’t for a sudden burst of inspiration after reading a book on poker I wouldn’t have written anything at all. The inspirational episode resulted in a post for State of Search where I draw parallels between SEO and poker. [...]

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Help from Google / Keyword Rankings

by April 6, 2010

Last week a fellow blogger & SEO geek pointed something strange out to me: a result on the Google SERPs did not match the actual webpage’s title tag. Up to now SEOs have pretty much assumed a page’s title tag is what search engines show in the results. However, it appears Google changes SERP headlines [...]

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