Happy Easter to all, Don’t fall victim to this April Fool scam claiming your AdWords account has stopped. The email even offers help to get them running again and even improving their performance – how generous! The email link takes the visitor to http://adwords.google-sn.com domain (remaining URL details removed to protect readers) http://whois.domaintools.com shows the [...]
Google Maps’ Local Business Centre is an absolutely key aspect of promoting your business online. The Google Maps LBC displays appropriately located businesses in response to searches with a geographic context, but only if they had an LBC registration! Read more here One aspect of specifying your business in Google Maps was that businesses (particularly [...]
Recently I received another official looking letter notifying me that the succinctideas.net.au domain is available and if I pay for it before a deadline I get a free iPod shuffle. Sound familiar? You may have read this here in Sept 09 Do I need this domain? It is really superfluous to my needs. I already [...]
After finally conceding to buy an iPhone (then instantly converting to an iPhone-a-phile) it has re-awoken my annoyance at unnecessarily bandwidth hungry websites and phat emails. Outside of a 3G service area and cast into the bandwidth wildness, I’ve becoming painfully aware of the delays and download budget impact for simple emails with bloated banners, [...]
In the Succinct Update Dec 09 I wrote about the real costs of blogging. This article from by Janine Popick, Vertical Response founder titled Start Blogging! 10 Reasons Why You Think Time Wasted Might Be Time Well Spent provides some balance. Cheers Pete
Tom from deMasi Jones SYDNEY: Australia’s first major study on consumer behaviour in online search reveals marketers are missing out on valuable leads when they neglect search engine optimisation (SEO) – even those spending significant amounts on paid search. The findings from the Research International study, commissioned by WPP’s search marketing company Outrider in Australia, [...]
Does the size of a website affect its authority in Google? Matt Cutt says no, but links do matter! “>
Google has upgraded Analytics to V4 with a host of new features to enable even closer scrutiny of your website’s performance. This industrial strength yet surprisingly free website metrics system can help you understand more about how your site is performing and give clues on how to improve it to ultimately make it a viable [...]
If you like many are struggling with keeping up with the barrage of communications from emails, blogs, Skype & MSN chats and many more new media sources then you will be grateful for Google’s Wave. Google developers have been toiling away breathing life into this unifying platform and it is really looking like a winner [...]