7
Jun
Category: ipad | Leave a comment
I have been itching to get my hands on one of the new iPads, and have tried to get through all kinds of excessive spending committees at work and home. I just can’t seem to get the nod on putting my hand in my pocket and parting with my hard earned cash and buying one.
Giz a Pad
I’ve now taken a new tack, and am trying to persuade the wife we need one as an educational tool for my 8 year old – who is an internet junkie. He spends more time on the Penguin Club web site than is probably healthy, and I am positive that an iPad will help with his reading.
I’m still not sure how I would be able to stop him playing online with his web friends whilst he is supposed to be reading the virtues of some of Roald Dahls finest characters. And just as I start hankering for the iPad, the new iPhone comes out and I need to persuade the wife how I need one of them….
Steve Jobs, give me a break please mate.
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4
Jun
Category: link building | Leave a comment
This morning I was researching some pretty standard terms and conditions for a website we are shortly launching, and I came across this website sat at the top of google.
It’s written on the UK Government website,
And at first glance, it seemed exactly what I was looking for, but on further inspection I noticed this little gem in there:
You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without [business name]‘s prior written consent.
Excuse me?
You are telling website owners to dissallow people being able to link to you, this would disrupt the entire fabric of the internet.
And people wonder why we are in a recession!
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18
Mar
Category: Google | Leave a comment
Something amazing happened last week in the internet world. The unstoppable force, met the immovable object. And finally, somebody has toppled the giant that is Google, In America anyway.
Hitwise, claims that
Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week. Facebook.com recently reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th. The market share of visits to Facebook.com increased 185% last week as compared to the same week in 2009, while visits to Google.com increased 9% during the same time frame. Together Facebook.com and Google.com accounted for 14% of all US Internet visits last week.
Even though Google has a higher percentage share of the market in the UK than it does in the US. It’s only a matter of time in my opinion before Facebook becomes more visited than Google in the UK. All the teenagers in our family seem to live on the website, checking it 20, 30 times a day. And as smartphones become more affordable and the kids all start using iphones, the usage is going to skyrocket as they will be quite literally plugged into facebook all day long, and annoying this bitter old mid 30′s bloke with the constant updates, application invites, event attending and general nonsense.
Matt.
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15
Dec
Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
For this years Christmas party, we made our annual hommage to our local for some amazing food. If you are ever in Altrincham, make sure you grab yourself something to eat at The Victoria, considering its a pub the food is amazing.
We then trawled the bars of Altrincham, before ending up in Hale, where we had our offices for a bit and ending up in the club that was called 161 and is now called something that i can’t remmeber.
Anyway as Christmas Parties go it was quite low on the incident count, with no fights, arguing, nakedness or any of that.
Charlie Stole the show with his shirt that you can see in the photo to the right.
Until next year.
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15
Dec
Category: Tips | Leave a comment
I’ve been having problems generally surfing the web through all web browsers with bethere internet.
This is how you fix it, in case you have the problem as well:
Please reset the DNS servers on the BeBox the following way and this should resolve the issue that you report:
1) go to Start Menu/All Programs/Accessories and open a Command Prompt
2) in Command Prompt type: telnet 192.168.1.254
3) for username use: Administrator and for password use the current password (there is no password by default).
4) after logging in, enter the following command:
dns server route list
dns server route flush
dns server route add dns=87.194.0.51 metric=1 intf=RoutedEthoA
dns server route add dns=87.194.0.52 metric=2 intf=RoutedEthoA
saveall
exit
This is another of Matt’s tips for a better life.
Updated:
Replace your DNS setting settings from bethere with Open DNS
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19
Nov
Category: Seo | Leave a comment
Details of the next Manchester SEO meeting are over here at Shane Jones’ blog
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19
Nov
Category: football | Leave a comment
It’s hardly going to look good on the average pie eating beer guzzling Football fan is it?
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19
Nov
Category: twitter | Leave a comment
Twitter have officially rolled out the retweet function on their website, as anyone who has been using Twitter via anything but their website will know this is old hat. But anyway its official now.
From Twitters Blog:
We’ve just activated a feature called retweet on a very small percentage of accounts in order to see how it works in the wild. Retweet is a button that makes forwarding a particularly interesting tweet to all your followers very easy. In turn, we hope interesting, newsworthy, or even just plain funny information will spread quickly through the network making its way efficiently to the people who want or need to know.
You may remember that we shared the mechanics of this feature with developers a while back so they could think about how to work it into Twitter apps. Now we’re ready to start trying it on Twitter. The plan is to see how it goes first with this small release. If it needs more work, then we’ll know right away. If things look good, we’ll proceed with releasing the feature in stages eventually arriving at 100%.
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19
Nov
Category: Google | Leave a comment
The other day Google added another way it displays sitelinks for some searches.
On a Google search for the keyword if you look beneath the main search result,we see links to various areas of the web site. This would help a searcher in two ways: they can get a better understanding of what the site is about before they visit, and they can take a shortcut from Google to the topic that interests them.
Now Google are changing the goalposts again and providing breadcrumbs as well, this is instead of the green link you see underneath the usual result, Quite why they are doing this is anyones guess.
It doesn’t seem as helpful to me.
From Google themselves
Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where you’re headed. Today we’re rolling out an improvement that replaces the URL in some search results with a hierarchy showing the precise location of the page on the website. The new display provides valuable context and new navigation options. The changes are rolling out now and should be available globally in the next few days.
Some web addresses help you understand the structure of the site and how the specific page fits into the site hierarchy. For example, consider a search for the biography of Vint Cerf (Google’s Internet Evangelist). The URL for one result, “www.google.com/corporate/execs.html,” shows that the page is located in a page about “execs,” under “corporate,” which is on the “google.com” site. This can provide valuable context when deciding whether to click on the result.
Often, however, URLs are too long, too short, or too obscure to add useful information. For example, consider this result from ProductWiki for the query [spidersapien reviews]:
The URL of this result is “www.productwiki.com/spidersapien,” which doesn’t provide much additional information about the site or this result. Now take a look at the result with the new site hierarchy display:
The new text provides useful information about the page. You can tell that the ProductWiki site has information about many different products, organized in different categories, and you can even tell that Spidersapien is a robot toy. In addition, each phrase in the green line is actually a link. For example, clicking on “Toys & Games” takes you to ProductWiki’s listing page for all toys, and clicking on “Robots” takes you to a list of their robot toys. This way if you realize that you’re interested in a more general category than this specific product (there are a lot of cool robot toys out there) you can easily access information on broader topics.
The host and domain for the site (in this case www.productwiki.com) will always be shown, so you always know what website you’re going to before you click. There’s not always enough room to show the complete hierarchy, so sometimes we use ellipses to replace some of the intermediate levels, like in this result for [how to make granola]:
The information in these new hierarchies come from analyzing destination web pages. For example, if you visit the ProductWiki Spidersapien page, you’ll see a series of similar links at the top, “Home> Toys & Games> Robots.” These are standard navigational tools used throughout the web called “breadcrumbs,” which webmasters frequently show on their sites to help users navigate. By analyzing site breadcrumbs, we’ve been able to improve the search snippet for a small percentage of search results, and we hope to expand in the future.
When we design the way results appear on google.com, our goal is to get you to the information you’re looking for as quickly as possible. Sometimes that means improving how we represent websites, and other times that means giving you new ways to explore content. We’re always happy when we can introduce a feature, like site hierarchies, that does both!
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18
Nov
Category: news | Leave a comment
Blimey we seem to have created a bit of a wave on the internet this afternoon, regarding a template that we have used to create our Portfolio pages here on creativesuit.
When we were adding websites to the portfolio, we used as many people do when they are dealing with a static website, a template system. You just retype the text, change the pictures and away you go, a new page is done. In our haste we appear to have left the words “Search Engine Optimisation” in a lot of the clients, that don’t actually have any search engine optimisation done to them. It was one of those things where we intended to go back and do them properly, like we intended to remove the entire box proclaiming keyword postions, as this was put in to flesh the design out a bit, and quite frankly is a pain in the ass to update, as everyone knows that Google these days bounces round like Zebedee. The site was built a few years ago, when Googles ranking were a bit more stable and we discussed nice things like Google Dances, not nasty things and name calling.
We never have had, or never would have an SEO portfolio. That would be madness, we like to keep our relationships with our Search clients private, and we always will do.
Thanks for the Twitter user @thehodge for spotting the error. We are really sorry if any confusion has been caused by this. To be honest, many of us, you include, dear reader, have probably made mistakes. Mistakes that you hope you cant forget or wished you didnt make to start with. This is one of them…
As a company, we take on board that we are handling people’s work and if we offer SEO to them, we try and deliver just that. I will personally make sure that we revisit clients sites and make sure we are doing the best we can.
Ironically, we’re a few weeks away from a completely new company website, which drops everything that has been complained about anyway.
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