From the monthly archives: November 2011

6 Degrees of Gary Speed

By On November 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There used to be a paradigm that only only six steps separated us from anyone else on the planet.  The small world phenomenon even spawned a game “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” – there’s even a website for it which allows you to [...]

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Infographic: Infographic Use

By On November 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a beautiful infographic that shows infographic use.

It’s not particularly accurate, but it isn’t meant to be.  Like most infographics that you’ll see, it is there to tell a story and to bend the facts a little bit to present some information in a particular way.

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Cloaking still works … Why

By On November 22, 2011 · 1 Comment

Although there are plenty of reasons why you might want to use cloaking techniques for your website – having a conditional redirect that pushes people through to a mobile version of your website if they arrive using a mobile phone is one – it’s pretty much a [...]

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Will Google+ get 100 million members for Christmas?

By On November 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

According to Search Engine Land, around a billion people around the world use Google each month, but so far, the number of those who’ve taken the steps to join Google+ are relatively small.  Depending on who you talk to, membership is somewhere between 40 and 80 million [...]

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How much data is enough?

By On November 11, 2011 · 2 Comments

With the kind of fanfare and reaction that you’d expect, businesses can finally add branded entity pages to Google+.  At first glance the pages are pretty limited – there’s little of the customisation that you see on Facebook pages just yet, but that’s only a matter of [...]

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Google Encrypted Search

By On November 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

It’s been a while now since Google announced that they were planning to remove keyword level referrer data from search traffic from logged in users on Google.com, and despite the initial hysteria about the SEO industry dying (again) as a result of it, the majority of things [...]

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