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By Quumf On July 6, 2011 · 1 Comment

A while ago, I posted about the importance of privacy, and controlling how your personal information is being shared and used by the services that you engage with on line.  Over the past few months since I wrote that post, we’ve seen the furore about super injunctions being played out across Twitter, and [...]

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The New Look Google SERPs

By Quumf On July 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Google+ has been getting all the big headlines this week – and rightly so, it’s a huge development, but the revamp of Google’s entire UI is also a big thing too, and could have some profound effects on user interaction with search results.

Some of the changes are bigger [...]

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Google+ 1 day later…

By Quumf On June 30, 2011 · 1 Comment

I wrote a post yesterday on the Latitude Digital Marketing blog about the introduction of Google+, in which I touched on some of the exciting features that Google are bringing to the market.  Following on from the relatively disappointing Buzz, which appears to have gone much [...]

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Is there such a thing as a bad SEO client?

By Quumf On June 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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Rule #1 / What goes up, must come down…

By Quumf On June 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Ultimately, every great power wanes.  Growth gives wealth, wealth creates decadence, decadence builds into stagnation, and stagnation leads to decline.  Whether over centuries like the Roman Empire,  or in the blink of an eye like MySpace, a position of power is temporary.  Sooner or later, someone will come along with something better, be hungrier, and [...]

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Taming the Panda

By Quumf On June 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Over the past couple of months I’ve been involved in a lot of discussions about the Google Panda Update at conferences and also as part of work I’ve done providing material for a couple of magazines.  Despite having been originally rolled out back in February in the US, and April in other territories, Panda remains [...]

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Better To Do Lists

By Quumf On June 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

In SEO, the biggest factor that can impact on success is the amount of time you can spend on your activity.

Whether it is time you want to spend writing content, sourcing links, or performing analysis on your traffic to find new opportunities for gains, the key factor is time.  The more efficiently you can [...]

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Twitter Chats – skipping the noise

By Quumf On June 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Twitter’s greatest strength is also it’s greatest weakness.  The eclectic nature of the stream of consciousness micro posts that flows across your page contains everything from celebrity gossip and breaking news through to updates from friends and industry insight.  A user that follows a lot of people follows a lot of noise, and will often [...]

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iGaming Social Media and SEO Session

By Quumf On June 6, 2011 · 2 Comments

I was at the iGaming Supershow in Dublin a couple of weeks ago where I was speaking on a panel about social media and how the online gaming industry can use it more as part of their marketing mix.

Alongside me on the panel were Paul Reilly of Media Skunk Works, and [...]

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How to add Google +1 to a WordPress Blog Manually

By Quumf On June 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Here’s a quick way to add the new Google +1 button to a WordPress blog manually.

Step 1: Get Your Code

Pop over to Google’s Page about +1 and select your button style and then copy the code provided into your favourite text editor:

Step [...]

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