Google’s de-indexing of Times Online could cost Murdoch £1.7 million per month

UPDATE: Thanks Jaamit http://bit.ly/basSaJ The Times has now been re-indexed in Google, now who said Newspapers were old skool. As the index loss is only half a day the revised figures suggest a reduced cost of £17, 500. While Times Online begin their move to an online charge model following a very public spat with [...]

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Google’s big white onion

Often it’s the things you see every day that you don’t notice changing, your face in the mirror, the length of the grass and then all of a sudden you’re an old man pushing a lawnmower. Where am I going with this? Other than into a scary future, well Google. Noticed anything different lately? Probably, [...]

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Vetting an SEO agency, 5 questions you should ask.

From time to time I hear SEO agencies referred to in terms normally reserved for dodgy car salesmen and other rogue traders. ‘Charlatans’ is one of the more prosaic descriptions I’ve heard recently. Strong words indeed for marketing circles and an unfortunate by product of the ‘black art’ nature of SEO which enables some unscrupulous [...]

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Insurance losing the Google fight

It’s ironic that many insurance companies fighting for high ranking in Google are not aware of the potential downside of their search activities – you’d have thought they had that covered. Forget the admirals hats or black cloaks, the senior directors of these companies should be finding out what colour hat their SEO agency is [...]

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The ghost of Christmas future – banned by Google?

So the Royal Mail has called off their suicidal strike action, for two months at least, though much of the damage to their reputation and their e-commerce customers has already been done. IMRG reports that two thirds of their members have seen a 30% decrease in orders due to the strike action. Forced to find [...]

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