Just on the train home from London Affiliate Conference today. Was a good conference. Lots of booth babes chasing wide eyes affiliates around. Always entertaining.
Really cool spectacle was the organised street dance session. If you've seen that T-Mobile Ad then you will know what I mean. If not, basically the whole of the conference floor filled with professional dancers, the PA system fired up and they all started busting a move. Random, effective, fun and great for getting attendees into the spirit of things.
Woop woop!! Nearly time for SES London again. For those of you cave dwellers who don't know yet, the conference will be held at the Islington Business Design Centre (nearest tube Angel, overland Kings Cross) between 15th - 19th Feb.
Speaking at SES
This year I am very pleased to announce that both David and myself will be speaking for the first time at SES. We are both very honoured to be speaking along side some of the industries finest and are very much looking forward to it. The session we are on is taking place on Day 1 Tuesday 15th 3.30pm to 4.30pm and is called Industry Specific Search Strategies: Under the Hood.
Copy and paste the embed code direct from YouTube into WordPress. Not necessarily a good idea?!
Now that I am starting to pay a bit more attention to my blog again, I started to do some cross browser testing and in the process noticed that none of my YouTube video's were rendering properly in IE7. Pants!
A little bell rang in my head about that nasty embed tag and validation, so next thing I did was pop over to W3C and run a good old validation test. Guess what, yes, crap XHTML. Double pants!
As its nearly the weekend and we have all been working too hard I thought I would give you all a well earned break from all the intelligent blog posts and conversation and post this little GEM of a video. I just sat and watched it and laughed lots and lots. We all like a good laugh, so hopefully it will be a bit of fun to your day. This is SFW BTW!!
Many search engine folks like the "seat of the pants" approach to SEM but I am so disorganised when I try to remember everything that I find myself turning to Microsoft Excel.
Yes, there are far sexier subjects in the search world than using Microsoft Excel, but stay with me, Excel can be useful even if it is not cool!
Well guys and gals. It’s that time again. The mobile phone contract is up for renewal and I am free again to compare-the-meerkat for my next mobile phone. With all the time I spend doing other things, like my day job at PULSE, writing this blog, running various affiliate websites and now being married, choosing the best phone for me is always something I get wrong. Always! So my dear readers, I am asking for your help and expert advice on what phone I should get next. Any advice you could give me would be most appreciated.
To my mind there are probably only two (or possibly 3) strong contenders. Yep you guessed it, either the Iphone or the Gphone.
I recently presented at the Autumn Fair, held at the NEC Birmingham, presenting a series of articles all about retail seo. In these presentations I was talking about targetting the right search engine when putting together a coherent search marketing campaign. As Google has been the search engine of choice for many years now and currently has around a 90% market share in the UK I always advise that if you're going to do seo / SEM you need to target google.co.uk and use this as your metrics for success.
With the introduction of Bing, I've been doing a bit of research into the effectiveness of the two search engines and it seems that Microsoft's 'new kid on the block' is giving far better conversion rates than Google! I just had to dig deeper to see exactly "why this is so" and how our retailers can benefit!
