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    Google remarketing

    Absolutely, in this case when you occasionally visit the blog and are nowhere near making a conversion, getting prompted all day long can be a bit annoying. It's a great tool, don't get me wrong, but to be used with discretion as you rightly say.
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    Google remarketing

    As a result of casually seeing how much tickets to England vs Wales was going to be I am now being stalked by banner ads featuring Joe Hart and Wayne Rooney. I can see it being a really useful marketing tool, just not so sure I need to see Wayne Rooney's face plastered all over every page that I...
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    Customer Reviews Google

    Completely agree with Jon, ReviewCentre is the Daddy when it comes to this kind of thing and we use it very successfully. Like he says, customers do not need to have an account so you're far more likely to get people to leave reviews. It will also hook up to any AdWords campaigns you have on...
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    SEO Newbie

    Search Engine Land http://searchengineland.com has helpful advice on specific areas of SEO which are pretty good to guide you through. If you're struggling to write a blog post on it then I recommend getting a guest blogger who will write something for you in exchange for a link or 2. My Blog...
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    SEO Sucks or should that be Suckers !

    Haha, gotta admire the sentiment in that statement. In the latest version of their OSE platform they've gone as far as to not count links from sites that they don't think are worthwhile, always a little dubious IMHO. Again, from experience, many sites in my niche are doing just as well, if not...
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    Christmas (aaarrrggh!) marketing to hotels.

    Depressing as it is, now is very much the time to be pitching to these types of venues in time for Christmas. The people you are targetting will be among the first to be promoting their wares to the public for Christmas so they will probably be looking to start marketing themselves for Christmas...
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    Another PR Update

    Amazing, does this mean we get two massive "Toolbar PR" arguments in the space of a month?! Who knew that Google had a sense of humour! :p
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    Unusual Wordpress Blog Comments

    I've had loads of weird ones slip through the net but they're really nothing to worry about. One of my favourites came through a post I'd written about advertising events and the Superbowl read; When offered a gift, especially in business, one of the goals we look forward, it is to be...
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    Did You Recover From Panda?

    Really good point. It's tempting to see an increase and put it down to the algo change but given the holidays that occured around the same time as the update it's hard to get a clear indication of what the exact cause is. Traffic is up around 30% month on month and is also up year on year...
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    The Only Way to Get Better at Blogging?

    Completely agree. This will make any post stand out, give you more of an idea of the person behind it and keep people coming back to see what you'll say next!
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    The Only Way to Get Better at Blogging?

    I don't totally agree that everyone is capable of writing to an excellent standard just with a bit of practice (my fiancee who is responsible for getting ops people to write coherent tender answers would testify to that!) but for a blog it can often make far better reading if the author isn't...
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    SEO Content / Copy + Humour?

    I'm a big fan of putting a bit of personality into copy, I get a bit bored of all the "Apprentice" style jargon that gets banded about, especially on corporate sites (not every sentance has to end with the word 'solutions'!) When it comes to the prices page however I think it's important to be...
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    Blog/Articles before business launch

    I would definitely agree with that, whatever else you do I would get some content up on the domain and get it indexed asap. I've had sites that have taken a while to get themselves ranked for a few months before jumping straight up onto the first page, if this happens and you can get it out of...
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    Memory sticks

    Are you selling on or are they for you? If they're for you then this website will help - http://www.branded-usb-flash-drives.net/. The flash drive market is in chaos at the moment as most of the memory chips are made in Japan so you will do well to get a fixed price for more than a couple of...
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    New Google Products Requirements

    Scratch that - here you go. http://googlemerchantblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/changes-for-google-product-search.html
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