Archive for June, 2009

• Search Engine Optimisers, Spam and Reputation Management

  I detest spam. I don’t like it in my email. I don’t like it on websites and reading the spam dropped into blog comments leaves me feeling tainted. I’m also involved in online reputation management for a few clients, and spam that involves the clients’ name can be very hard to work with. This issue [...]

  June 17th, 2009

• Blind Search Testing

  Microsoft employee Michael Kordahi has a new and suddenly popular tool – Blind Search. It presents search results from the three search engines side by side, with branding removed. Until a few hours ago, you could see which search engine users were voting for – until some git decided to game the service. As Michael [...]

  June 8th, 2009

• AdWords Help Forum Weather Report

  Every day – or as much as I can make it so – I Tweet an AdWords Help Forum Weather Report. What does it mean? The AdWords Help Forum is a user to user – or advertiser to advertiser – help forum. Apart from the advertisers, there are a few Google staffers who spend some [...]

  June 6th, 2009

• Bing Spamming Twitter?

  Although I registered for Twitter about a year ago, I’ve only begun seriously using it since late last year. I’m interested in how Bing has been faring, and to reply to a question in the AdWords Help Forum, I remembered that I’d seen one of the people I follow, mentioning the full path to Bing [...]

  June 5th, 2009