Category Archives: Search Engines

Imagine Google being your Affiliate on your Programs

October 20, 2008 – 1:23 pm

There is no point in getting too angry too often. And when it comes to PPC I rarely get angry or feel any other emotion. Everything in PPC can generally be scoped, planned, projected, dissected to within an inch of its ROI driven life. To me personally that makes it a bit dull – its [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Internet Marketing, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimisation, google | Comments (2)

Are Paid Links Acceptable

September 17, 2008 – 10:57 am

I’ve been chatting to a company recently about helping them with their SEO efforts – they’re looking to do the content and I’ll be doing the link development. Is an equitable split of work and they’re a reasonably well known brand – leaders within their field – just lacking generic positioning. And as we all [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Internet Marketing, google | Comments (1)

Google Chrome – Crashing with Symantec (Part 2)

September 3, 2008 – 3:39 pm

As mentioned in previous post you can turn off the sandboxing in Google Chrome to stop it conflicting with Symantec Endpoint Protection. However this is really a bit of a hack and as the sandbox is one of the cool things in Google Chrome turning it off isn’t really a great solution. As sandboxing means [...]

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Google Chrome Crashing with Symantec

September 3, 2008 – 9:02 am

But Don’t Worry We Know How To Fix It
I’ve been sitting at work trying to get the new browser from Google – Chrome, to work on my office PC. And it didn’t work I kept getting an initialisation error. After some swearing, some throwing things etc I found the fix.

By mercurythread | Also posted in google | Comments (4)

Are Link Directories any use?

August 28, 2008 – 8:57 am

I’m going to test them and see
I’ve always used link directories. They’re quick and cheap ways to get links. But that’s the problem – if they’re cheap, easy and quick that means the links they deliver are usually of really low quality. Unless you’ve got a reasonably old website with a bit of good history, [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Blogging, General Daftness, Link Building, Search Engine Optimisation, google | Comments (3)

Interrupted Gmail Service

August 13, 2008 – 7:54 am

Yesterday I started hearing from folk that their GMail account had gone haywire. They were locked out or the system kept stalling – and similar experiences were found in Google Calendar and other Google Applications. These issues have now been resolved with Google engineers sorting everything out pretty quickly.
Its a little bit wierd – you [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in gmail, google | Comments (0)

Affiliate Networks dont work hard enough for merchants

May 16, 2008 – 4:27 pm

I’m getting constantly fed up with affiliate networks doing very little to help merchants protect their brand. Be honest – would you in their shoes. For every sale that an affilate network member makes the network gets a comission. So why should they protect the brands – more sale means more money in the bank!

By mercurythread | Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Pay Per Click | Comments (1)

SEO Cheat Sheets and Guides

May 6, 2008 – 2:39 pm

This week I’ve been searching for some good cheat sheets to decorate my office with – and there was only so long I could stare into a picture of a New York Skyline. And during this week I’d decided that if Dick Dastardly and Mutley had used cheat sheets they would probably have caught [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Internet Marketing, Link Building, Search Engine Optimisation | Comments (0)

Direct Response (Behaviourally Adaptive) Websites

April 23, 2008 – 11:38 pm

What if your website could talk directly to your consumers? I don’t mean just simply be relevant but be able to intuit from their actions what they really wanted from your website and then return tyhe appropriate messages? It would deliver better conversion rates and drive up your profitability. Irrelevant of how much it cost [...]

By mercurythread | Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Improving Conversion Rates, Internet Marketing, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media, Website Design | Comments (0)

3 sites you should ping to maximise your blog visbility

April 1, 2008 – 12:42 pm

Years ago, in a dimly lit living room Peter Hoggan started talking to me about blog and ping as a way of increasing website visibility. To be honest it was late, I’d just driven home from the other side of the country and all I wanted to do was get a pint or ten. But [...]

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