Posts Tagged ‘google’


Happy Christmas Google

Author: Oliver Phillips, Wednesday, November 26, 2008

If you could send a Christmas card to the founders of Google, would you bother, if you would - what would you say?   Would the sentiment be kind or otherwise? In 2008 have they helped your business, or rained on your parade. 
I think many Christmas cards from webmasters and small business owners alike might read [...]

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Only natural links are good links

Author: Oliver Phillips, Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Google is getting more and more sophisticated in its ability to detect dubious SEO practices they frown upon - whether done by intention or by accident.
Doorway pages, cloaking, and hidden text are old hat now and rarely effective, although it annoys me to see some sites still getting away with these techniques. The current big issue [...]

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Google Chrome - You thought there was nowhere else to serve adverts!

Author: Oliver Phillips, Wednesday, September 10, 2008

I’ve been wondering, why would Google want to build a web browser?  I know their expansion is rampant; already many Google applications have only a tenous, if any, link to their search engine beginnings, and I have the impression they like “putting it up” Microsoft - but that’s just my own observation, not fact.
But why [...]

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We don’t do SEO

Author: Oliver Phillips, Saturday, September 6, 2008

SEO or to call it by name, Search Engine Optimisation, is the process by which a website is made more attractive to the search engines, the aim being a higher position in search results on key terms which relate to the website, resulting in more traffic to the website.
I get loads of people asking about SEO, or [...]

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