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Manchester based Bite Digital are looking for some new talented Designers, WordPress and Magento developers to help our team produce some stunning ecommerce and corporate website projects for clients the world over.
If you are a freelance designer or developer and have spare capacity or want to branch out into the frreelance landscape then call me today on 0845 6884491 or email markrush@gmail.com and we can chat.
We’ve been working with an amazing new service called Skuuudle. In a nut shell, Skuuudle is a service that helps ecommerce managers to take control of their product pricing. With price competitiveness becoming ever more important and the consumers growing demand on cheaper and cheaper products, the Skuuudle pricing strategies service actively monitors your competitors and at its lowest level, produces a daily report where you can benchmark your prices against the market.
For those with a more enterprise need theres a great service called Skuuudle Maxxx which will take all of the sting out of your enterprise product management.
Whats more with the enterprise price monitoring service, you can establish a set of rules to ensure you always stay in profit i.e.
I always want to be 2% cheaper that my main competitor except in cases when my margin of £x will be impacted.
Simply stunning.
Check Skuuudle today at http://www.skuuudle.com
Anyone who knows me knows I have this great admiration for Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz beard’s… I think its amazing lol.
Now as an unashamedly cool piece of halloween link bait I had this great idea to produce a range of popular SEO rockstars in halloween mask form… to date tho’ I’ve started with the best… good ol’ Rand Fishkin himself.
Rand Fishkin Halloween Beard
(yeah I look like a bit of a spaz here but my phone doesn’t have a front facing camera lol)
This amazing mask can be yours free of charge however i’d appreciate your blogging and tweeting about it as repayment. Even better feel free to send in pictures of you in full on Rand mode and i’ll gladly put the pics up on here and link to your websites.
Rands Beard
For your free Rand Fishkin Halloween mask download it here directly from the Bite Digital website.
In case you’ve had your head in the sand for the past 12 hours, you’re probably aware that Google has elected to run all logged in users of organic search through SSL. The net effect is that around 10% of your traffic will be untraceable and that your analytics and SEO strategy will now have its arm tied behind its back.
The issue is not with this being implemented, its that Google have elected to show Adwords customers this missing data.
Joost makes a really valid argument on this hypocracy on the seobook.com blog.
So go and read than and petition your local European MP to ensure this doesn’t migrate from the US.
I’ve just noticed that Google has added another rich snippet into the organic search results. When searching for this brand term on a domain we’ve migrated to an exact match domain the brand term now shows a snippet providing options for results for that term above the organic SERPS.
BP Country Search Results
Removing rel=nofollow and linking out to other websites is good for your SEO.
For a few years now I’ve been proud to be known as a dofollow blog. And so long as my visitors don’t abuse the trust I place in them by commenting with spammy names, I’m pretty happy to link out to anything except porn pills and poker.
In my posts I try to link as much as possible however to date, I’ve been reluctant to link using keyword rich anchors to pages on 3rd party websites for fear of being too generous. To this end you might have noticed a lot of my external links use the anchors ‘here’ or ‘take a look’.
Over the past month I tried an experiment and switched off my dofollow plugin for WordPress, making all links from the site nofollowed like most default installations of WordPress.
I haven’t changed much of anything else and left the changes to be indexed. To my astonishment, my site plummeted from 4th to 8th for my chosen keyword. Confident that the site had been fully re-indexed, I turned my dofollow plugin back on and reinstated dofollow links throughout my site.
The net result is that once again my website has risen through the search engines to a prominent place.
The up-shot of this research is that by using the default nofollowed state for all links on your blog and its comments you are in fact holding back your website and reducing its ability to rank.
I’s further like to highlight that most of my comments link to sites of unrelated topics so make of that what you will.
Happy dofollowing.
I may be early in this assumption but today PageRank just isnt working. Ive checked the toolbar, various other 3rd party systems like the PaRaMeTeR tool, SEOQuake etc and i cant get a whiff of PageRank anywhere!
If things escalate i’ll update.
It seems that Google have just decided to throw a spanner in the works by changing the URL needed to query the PageRank metric.
The old URL was:
The new URL is:
This is a complete pain as it means every tool on the planet needs to be changed to take effect.
The bright sparks at Big Hit Media (and Mitch) have already got a solution for SEOQuake which you can read here.
If any more news appears I’ll be sure to update.
Here’s something else I’ve just noticed. It appears that Google is taking some site-links configured in the setup of a PPC account and adding a deep link into the adwords advert where it finds a term of relevance.
To illustrate here’s where I found a deep link to Skuuudle’s pricing page:
Just noticed this nifty change to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool user interface.
Now it seems that Google want you to drill into their system and identify keywords on a category basis. This is something i suggested previously and its a welcomed change to this universal tool.
Happy Keyword-Researching
A few years ago I was pretty fast off the mark when I outlined the cheapest places to buy windows 7. Today I am pleased to bring to you a free download of the new Windows 8 Metro operating system available in 32bit and 64bit configurations for both traditional mouse and touch screen PC’s.
Windows 8
For those of you who don’t know about windows 8, Microsoft have taken all of the innovation found in their Windows Phones and its gorgeous Metro interface, and re-packaged it for a desktop environment.
For a preview of the Windows 8 Metro user interface watch the following video:
Windows 8 doesn’t do away with the standard icons and window configuration we know and love/hate, that’s still there however it has been greatly improved and should be better than its predecessor.
Download the ISO’s of Windows 8 free and direct from Microsoft’s website here:
Download Windows 8 Developer Preview (64-bit) with Developer Tools
Download Windows 8 Developer Preview (64-bit) without the developer tools
Download Windows 8 Developer Preview (32-bit)
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