Category Archives: SEO

Musings on farming and food, in the light of recent weather-related disasters in the UK

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

Musings on farming and food, in the light of recent weather-related disasters in the UK.

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Programming and Civility

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Reblogged from peak 5390: Last week I was writing up report cards for an Introduction to Programming class I taught recently. In addition to their academic performance, students at my school are assessed on courtesy and respect in every class … Continue reading →

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HATE Android or Apple?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by

Why should I hate Android (or Apple)? MG Siegler’s Android examination has spurred me once more to put finger to keyboard. It started with an attention grabbing controversial headline “Why I hate Android”. MG is probably Apple’s greatest fan barring Stephen Fry, but … Continue reading →

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How Local Businesses can Engage Customers with Social Media

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

How Customers can help market your business There are some great ideas for engaging customers in this article by Jon Schepke from Search Engine Watch (SEW). Sure it focused towards the American market but the general themes are applicable to most … Continue reading →

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Why Social Media Leads News on Death of Osama Bin Laden Death

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

What is the Impact of Social Media for Small and Local Business Like many people today, I woke up to the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed by American Forces. Actually my wife, who had been listening to … Continue reading →

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Field of Dreams or a Website on the Road to Nowhere

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

When Art and Search Engines Don’t Meet I was chatting to a musician friend, a great guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, visiting us in Normandy. He told me rather proudly he had a website. This sounded good – a “Field of Dreams” is … Continue reading →

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User Generated Reviews for Organic Improvement in Search Engine Results

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

Engaging with Customers can improve your Ranking Google’s Page Rank Algorithm is being gamed more and more, with more and more sites acquiring back-links paid or otherwise. Added to this Google’s Panda update to down grade poor content. User Generated Reviews … Continue reading →

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Organic Ranking for Local Business via Google

Posted on April 1, 2011 by

Building a Relationship with Google I have spoken before of the need for small and locally based business to the develop on-line presence,especially here in Normandy. I have also said before just creating a website is not enough. A website … Continue reading →

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Is Search Engine Ranking necessary for a Small Business?

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

OK you’ve got a website either you built it you sell or paid someone to do it for you. What next ? Customers – hopefully. But they don’t start arriving at your new virtual shop front. So what do you … Continue reading →

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Keeping up e-ppearances: How to bury your digital dirt – tech – 23 February 2011 – New Scientist

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

I spotted this Post by Sally Adee 23 February 2011 – New Scientist. The main thrust of this approach seems to be to get you name associated with the site deemed important by Google such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. I have … Continue reading →

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