Just another update on Stompernet’s SIMPLE course for all those who are interested. Although I laid into it last week some time, I’ve been perfectly happy with what we’ve done since. This week we’ve gone through some really specialist stuff in Google Analytics and added some A/B split testing code to our sites.
Now, I’ve done [...]

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The other day I heard that a Windows version of Saffari was now available as a beta trial to download. What was interesting is that it is supposedly twiced the speed of IE7 and 60 percent faster than Firefox.
Well, I mentally bookmarked it to download when I had a moment; and that moment came yesterday.
I [...]

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I should have posted this first; I actually managed to get to the beach this morning for a couple of hours. The sun was shining at last and so we jumped in Miriam’s car; the water is a bit cool, but I’ve been looking forward to this moment for weeks, so there was no way [...]

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Matt Cutts is asking for feedback on Google’s webmaster guidelines, which is a good thing as they are too vague in places and contradictory in others. Maybe when I have a bit of time I will comment, but I’m out of town at the moment so it’s not the right moment for me.
 What I really [...]

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Yesterday evening I made a point of watching a documentary about Second Life, because it’s one of those things I just don’t get. Why do people want to enter a virtual world in which they do all the mundane things that they do in the real world? What’s the point?
After watching it I still don’t know, [...]

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Did I ever say anything about buying FC Barcelona tickets online? No? Oh well.

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I just listened to the StomperNet SIMPLE call between Ed Dale, Leslie Rohde and Jerry West. Excellent content, I wish we’d heard this a couple of weeks ago.
Anyway, that minor complaint aside, if we keep getting content like that then it goes some of the way to addressing the problems I was talking about yesterday; [...]

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Not only is Brad Fallon is the coolest guy on the planet, but Google thinks he’s the coolest guy period. Is there really no one cooler than Brad Fallon?

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Here is a list of links that I find useful. You’ll find there are no links to SEO forums; the simple reason is that there is too much noise and I just can’t be bothered anymore. I decided the time had finally come to call it quits when I visited one forum where someone had [...]

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I went shopping this afternoon, something I really hate doing. Whenever I can I shop online, I’m not particularly price sensitive, especially for small purchases and prefer ease of purchase instead.
So it really makes me insane when shops are so bad at serving their customers. And one of my real peeves is when I’m standing [...]

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