PostsOpportunity to invest in online business 18th October 2012 9:30 PM Daniel, I was just about to delete as spam, but this is just too good to miss! So I can double my earnings in 6 months? Blimey, how much do you want? New Approach Marketing - Anyone from London to help? 18th October 2012 8:10 PM Your talking about a Google adwords campaign. It's down really to what you want to achieve and your budget. Personally I think it's best to get a feel for it yourself, and get to understand, even at a high level how it works, fully appreciate which keywords work for you, a rough idea of conversion costs etc before handing over to a managed campaign. But thats me. If you've no interest in doing it yourself and want to purely outsource it, then be clear on your budget, and what your aims and targets are. If you're spending less than Could be a Forum for sale $451,653 and it's yours ... 18th October 2012 3:28 PM Well this made me smile. We've all seen these cheap and nasty scraper sites that grab some public info, make up dubious thumb in the air stats then tell the world how much you're website is worth.  Normally we are worth tuppence, but finally a site that massages the ego!! My Local Forum - Ropey Web Analysis So there you go, it's obviously all true so we must be worth $451,653  Will take cash or a cheque.Anyone else worth any more? Which is The World's Most Trusted Profession ? 18th October 2012 2:42 PM “According to Reader's Digest the most trusted professions of 2012: ...19. Meteorologists” You've got to be kidding me! Weathermen They never get it right!You've seen QR codes, Aurasma, NFC... 18th October 2012 2:38 PM Wow!! Technology really is moving along at a rapid pace. It all goes to show that the boundaries between online and offline marketing are getting blurred  Rather than some traditional marketing avenues being obsolete as various forums will have you believe, in reality the options are expanding! Google hammers exact match domain owners! 18th October 2012 2:02 PM “Well, many site's adopted a style where they registered new domains with exact match keywords and search phrases and pointed links from them to their main websites. Why ? merely to manipulate the search engine algo. Now, when Google realized this grey hat technique, they set a filter where all such unnaturally linked websites would be filtered out and not shown in the SERPs.” I don't think any one would dispute this is an issue if sites are gaming the results as you describe. It's more of an issue with collateral damage, ie sites that aren't gaming. Personally, I think cleaning up the index is a good thing, and the aims of Panda, Penguin and the EMD updates is going the right direction, but unfortunately the "one size fits all" methodology doesn't always work. Starbucks 18th October 2012 8:57 AM I think it stinks "Two parliamentary committees are due to question tax officials about how Starbucks has been able to avoid paying tax on So What Would You Do with an EMD? 16th October 2012 8:28 PM I'm guessing the primary key phrase is obviously London Plumbers and your non SEO'd site is Bates Heating which has the number 3 spot, so major issues there. You should be mopping up traffic with your second site. But I've no doubt you've plenty more localised key words and phrases you are targetting, so without giving them away, is the Bates Heating site also mopping up these, or is this where you are getting stung? If the Bates site is mopping up these, then I'd hold fire and sit tight for 3 months or so and see how Google responds. So many people have been hit, I'd be amazed if there isn't an adjustment algo in the near future. But I wouldn't spend any more money on SEO for the minute on the new site. Plus dont interfere with the old site as it's working! Dunno if you are stuck into an SEO contract, but if you can't cancel it, at least freeze it indefinitely until this sorts itself out. If you have lost traffic and leads from key phrases which the old site isn't picking up, then if you need the leads for your sparkys etc, and the new site was converting well, then maybe invest in a short term PPC campaign. Convert your SEO spend to PPC and you shouldn't be out of pocket and gives you some breathing space while the saga unfolds and everyone waits to see if Google admits to going to far, or if it really is the end of the road for EMDs. This should be apparent within 3 months. In that case, you can then plan to migrate content etc to the old Bates site and concentrate on that one. Just my tuppence worth.. Farewell to the Vulcan :( 16th October 2012 9:44 AM It's great that we do preserve a lot of things, Steam Railways, things like the Black Country Museum etc, but I suppose it's the huge physical cost with complex technical expertise needed for older aircraft, particularly former military aircraft. It's a shame we don't have something like the Commemorative Airforce (used to be called the Confederate Airforce) in the UK, as they do in the States. It's great that the MOD fund the Battle of Britain Flight, and I hope they continue to do so, but there are so many superb aircraft around, wouldn't it be great if we could still see a Lightning, Phantom, Harrier or even Concorde at Airshows around the country. I think there were all sorts of red tape obstacles as well for privately owned jet aircraft. The largest operator of ex military jets was Thunder City Aircraft based in South Africa, who flew Buccaneers, Lightnings, Hunters, but have just ceased flying after a tragic crash and also blame the recession. All their aircraft are now up for sale, so hopefully someone will buy them and keep them flying... Farewell to the Vulcan :( 15th October 2012 9:01 PM “Hey Steve, anytime you wanna pop over to see her in the hangar and a close up of take-off (the sound is enormous and that's before it starts moving!) come up and see me!” Blimey, there's an offer! Shall have to find out her final schedules and take you up on that!! Got room for a caravan in the front garden? (what's your baby sitting rates?) |
