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Google News hiding other social share buttons

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Nathan
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Today I’ve noticed that on Google news, the +1 button is shown as default. But it only shows you other social shares when you expand a post. Needless to say, Google News is a Google product, so they can do … Continue reading →

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Website Optimisation – Identifying what to test

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Nathan
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If you want your website to be successful, conversion rate optimisation is crucial to success. Just half a percent increase can make a huge difference in the volume of leads your site generates, and more importantly – your ROAS. The … Continue reading →

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Google AdWords: Stop the short tail from ranking over your long tail

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Nathan
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Bidding on both Broad and exact match keywords of the same product can be a bit of a problem with the broad keywords overlapping the long tail keywords. The situation You have widgets broad match at £5 max CPC. You … Continue reading →

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Google SERPs showing 2 column comprehensive sitelinks

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Nathan
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Just another post about something I’ve never seen before. Google appears to have included 2 columns of detailed site links, rather than single lines or the nested associated page. Tweet

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Suggestions moved ‘into’ the Google SERP

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Nathan
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Google’s testing putting the suggested search into the page, rather than floating suggestions directly below the search bar. Anyone else notice anything different? Tweet

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AdWords: Relative CTR for the GDN

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Nathan
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Google have released a new metric to your Google Display Network (GDN) campaigns that’ll help you evaluate the effectiveness of your display ads. They call it Relative CTR and here’s the summary straight from AdWords. “Relative CTR is a measure … Continue reading →

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A/B Tests: Not sure which is performing better?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Nathan
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Often on low traffic sites, you’ll be waiting quite a long time for a split test to show good results. And by the time you get a decent level of numbers, will the trend have changed? So it’s time to … Continue reading →

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Adwords: Forget Position Preference, Automated Rules are the way to go!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Nathan
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Google announced earlier this month that they’re retiring the position preference feature in AdWords. That leaves users who rely on position preference to seek other means of lingering around a position. But Google have made a solution ready to use … Continue reading →

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Google purchase BeatThatQuote.com for £37m

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Nathan
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Today BeatThatQuote.com announced on their website that Google has bought them for £37.7m. Announcement below. BeatThatQuote.com today was sold to Google for GBP37.7 million. We think this deal is a tremendous opportunity for our company to develop new and innovative … Continue reading →

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Multivariate segmentation in Google analytics

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Nathan
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So, this is the first blog post in a long while and I’m writing it on my new HTC desire! So, let’s get to the point. You are setting up a multivariant (or a/b) experiment using web optimization software, you … Continue reading →

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