Monthly Archives: July 2007

Sunday Times – interesting take on Baroness Kingsmill story

Posted by Will Critchlow on July 31, 2007 in the PPC category

In this week’s Sunday Times Prufrock column, Louise Armitstead writes about the Baroness Kingsmill story I commented on, saying that the peer is not going soft on Google (all following on from an article in the FT). Louise has discovered more >

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The Power of Trusted Domains – A Case Study

Posted by Tom Critchlow on July 30, 2007 in the SEO category

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post entitled Facebook – Who’s Doing Your SEO? where I basically said two things: Facebook could dramatically improve their organic traffic by placing a sensible internal linking structure between public profiles more >

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The only 2 reports you should have Google Analytics to email you regularly

Posted by Will Critchlow on July 24, 2007 in the SEO category

I imagine most people who are responsible for any small (or even medium-sized) website have tried out Google Analytics. Since Google made the former Urchin software available for free, the quality of the analytics data available to your average small more >

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3 Reasons why Reputation Monitoring is like Insurance

Posted by Duncan Morris on July 24, 2007 in the Reputation, Reputation Monitor category

Daniel over at Reputation Advisor slightly beat me to the punch earlier this week with his excellent article about why you should keep a reputation manager on a retainer. In the article he compares Reputation Monitoring with Insurance. I have more >

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Brian, Yahoo is much better than Google, go on… say it

Posted by Tom Critchlow on July 16, 2007 in the SEO category

Before I get into the real meat of the post let me firstly introduce Brian White – another Googler following in the footsteps of Matt Cutts sharing some great juicy pieces of information on Googling, videogames and general tech-geekery. I more >

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How to choose an online payments provider

Posted by Will Critchlow on July 13, 2007 in the Distilled category

We have recently been around the houses with our experiences with online payment solutions recently and thought we’d share some of our heartache so you don’t have to go through the same things. Reputation Monitor is an online service we more >

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Facebook – Who’s doing your SEO?

Posted by Tom Critchlow on July 12, 2007 in the Reputation category

Ok, so although I came a little late to the whole Facebook phenomenon I have recently been dragged into the whole thing lovingly embraced the concept. I was browsing through the various settings however and I noticed that there is more >

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Search Google without wikipedia – a Firefox search plugin

Posted by Will Critchlow on July 10, 2007 in the SEO category

Recently there has been quite a stir within the SEO community with people seeing a huge dominance of wikipedia in the Google search results (Graywolf has been one of the more vocal critics recently with a whole load of posts more >

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The valley of death: how many employees should you have?

Posted by Will Critchlow on July 6, 2007 in the Distilled category

I went to a seminar on Wednesday organised by Barclays. Our bank manager (who’s brilliant – if you want a good local business manager in London, drop me a line) persuaded me to go along. I went for the networking, more >

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Some reputations are worth billions of dollars

Posted by Will Critchlow on July 4, 2007 in the Reputation category

Business Week reports on an in-depth study into the effects on company share prices of their reputation. The headlines are quite impressive; Coca-Cola would be worth an extra $4 billion if their reputation was as good as Pepsi’s. Walmart’s share more >

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