IAB Engage for Search

I spoke yesterday at the IAB Engage for Search event at the CBI conference centre in Centre Point. It was a very enjoyable morning and there’s a great write up on the IAB site. There’s also some good photos on Flickr. On a personal note I can say the lunch afterwards was excellent. At these […]

Search Engine Strategies London

This week I’m speaking at Search Engine Strategies London. I’m on two panels: Search Industry Update: A look at what the recent trends are in paid search. I’ll be discussing the numbers from EF’s latest quarterly spend report. (Tuesday at 11am). Ads in a Quality Score World: I’ll go through what makes up Quality Score, […]

Google Alphabet and Personal Alphabet

Google graduated its Suggest tool out of labs last week. A couple of blogs have listed the Google Alphabet (ie what Google suggests for each letter) in English and French. If you’re a Firefox 3 user (and if you’re not, you really should be) then you can create your own personal alphabet using the Smart […]

Speaking at Internet World Tomorrow

I'm speaking at Internet World tomorrow at 2pm on Scientific Search Marketing. If you can't make the session then I'll be on the Efficient Frontier stand for the rest of the day, so come along and say hello.

Oh the Hilarity!

Please, please, stop with the April Fool’s stuff, it really isn’t funny. Sorry to sound like an old curmudgeon, but the ‘jokes’ on the web get worse each and every year. Yes, the PigeonRank thing was amusing, but it’s so tired now.

A Reader Writes…

The Basildon Bond notepad I got for Christmas has seen some action over the last few of weeks. I had a letter published in New Media Age last month, and this week I've had (very similar) letters published in Marketing Week and Media Week.

New domain: SearchBeest.com

I’ve finally pulled my finger out, bought searchbeest.com and changed this blog’s hosting away from WordPress.com. Starting the blog on WordPress.com broke the first rule of new blogs (or rule #2 according SEOmoz and rule #11 according to Netconcepts; and while you’re at those sites, admire what wonderful link bait these lists make). So now […]

One-boxed

I just did a vanity search on Google (come on, we all do it) and I’ve been one-boxed. I used to live near Beeston when I was at university in Nottingham. Ordering a taxi over the phone when your name is Beeston and you want to go to Beeston is one of the most confusing […]

Hello World

Welcome. I thought I’d start my first post with the traditional ‘Hello World’ greeting – this is the Internet, after all. There are a million and one blogs on search marketing, and I’m going to try hard not to imitate them by blogging every time Larry Page scratches his nose or looking for hidden meanings […]

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