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12 Companies Who Forgot to Buy Their Dotcom Domains I’ve helped a few companies buy ‘their’ domain names from other owners over the last few years. Usually it’s either ‘very easy and expensive’, ‘hard but cheaper’, or just ‘totally impossible’. Here’s a very quick post showing some dotcoms who likely fit into the ‘impossible’ category, …
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Google Now Hiding UK & Other International Keyword Data Last year, Google made a change that meant lots of keyword data was suddenly stolen away from website owners. Thankfully for UK & other international sites, they only rolled this out on Google.com. ‘(Not Provided)’ – The International Rollout The bad news is, they’ve now rolled …
Top 100 UK Journalists on Twitter – by Social Influence Andy Barr & the team over at 10 Yetis released the 2nd version of their “top 100 journalists on Twitter犀利士 “ list. Their very useful top 100 uses a complex ranking algorithm, summed up by this line: “Obviously, the nicer journos are to PRs, the higher …
14 Photos of Google’s First Retail Outlet Here’s a post containing 14 photos of Google’s first ever retail outlet, ‘The Chromezone’. (actually, 13 photos, plus one of Apple’s equivalent for comparison). There were a couple of articles about this over the weekend, but none with photos. I happened to be on Tottenham Court Road (London), …
Ling Valentine on UX, SEO, and Running a Successful Website Ling Valentine runs the mighty LingsCars.com , a site that’s been on Dragon’s Den, won various business awards, and is – quite regularly – criticised for being ‘ugly’ among other things. Here she very kindly answers 5 questions about her experience around SEO, using videos to …
Interflora vs M&S – Full Judgement Here is the September 22nd 2011 European Court of Justice ruling on the Interflora vs M&S ‘Brand Bidding’ case. I’ve republished it here, as the ECJ’s site doesn’t allow direct linking to the judgement for technical reasons. (it’s the first Javascript link on this europa.eu page) My (amateur) summary …
Nothing: Rasputin cannot teach us anything about social media.