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Laura Wilde Bings and Decides

She Came, She Bing-ed, She Decided

She Came, She Bing-ed, She Decided

You can’t have missed Microsoft’s media offensive. Magazines, TV Adverts and Xbox Live are singing the praises of Bing – the search engine successor to MSN Live Search.

From every street corner and every television set, they’re calling upon the people to Bing and Decide. What Microsoft hope is that people will try Bing once and turn away from Google’s “information overload.”

Every SEO professional has an opinion. Bing isn’t advanced enough, Google have ruined their clean results page with sponsored links and embedded videos.

But what about the non-professionals? What about the people who don’t see search engines as a living, but as a means to an end. Luckily, I live with such a person. So I posed her a question. “Will you Bing and Decide?”

Her answer – why not?

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Is Google Automatically “Correcting” English Spelling?

All the buzz surrounding Google today is concerning the fact that they’re attempting to play hard ball with the Chinese government, and the havoc caused by the imminence of the caffeine update.

What only a few souls have noticed is that Google are attempting to force American spellings onto an unsuspecting British populace.

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SEO in 2010 – A Five Step Primer

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Photo by Jon_Marshall

Listen here lad, I’ve been making websites since the year dot and I know that all your Digs and Tweeterings are good for only one thing – spam email.     Trust me, all you need for them search engines is Meta Keywords.

I wish that quote was a work of fiction, but it’s not. It’s the befuddled claims of a web developer who I had the pleasure of arguing with over the phone last week. The methods he was promoting were sound and proven – but they’re now wildly out of date.

Don’t make the same mistake. Get up to speed with what you need to know if you’re planning on doing any SEO in 2010. These five steps won’t teach you everything you’ll need to know, but they’ll help you get started.  Read the rest of this entry »

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How Not to Get a Guest Post – The Alexandru Rotaru Method

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Photo by Tom T

Imagine my delight this morning when I received an enquiry from UT’s contact form. Had someone finally decided to offer me huge amounts of money to release their Nigerian Uncle’s estate via my bank account?

Alas, no. It was someone asking if they could possibly put a guest article on Unmemorable Title. Not an uncommon practise in the blogosphere, so I happily opened up their request and sat down to mull it over.

Not a chance. The email I received read like an idiot’s guide of how not to request a guest slot.
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