Conversion Matters

There appears to be a proper PageRank update happening at last - the front page of this blog is now PR4. Now I can starting selling text links to casino sites… ;)!

How did you do? I only had a brief look around but was some what surprised I ended up with a higher (front page) PageRank than bloggingfingers. Not that it matters or means much; but there’s still the ego factor!

How did your sites/blogs fair?

But just in case you’re interested there is a lot of talk about the PageRank decreases happening. I won’t say what’s already been said over and over but here are a few links if you’re bothered.

Earners’ Blog
Internet Babel
Search Engine Guide
Andy Beard
SEOmoz
Sebastians Pamphlets
And probably the best PageRank post.

There’s definitely more but I have a 9am lecture and should sleep!

Yesterday was my 20th birthday! I was just randomly checking some sub-folders in my inbox. I have lots of rules and stuff because there are loads of emails I’m sent that I’m not interested in and just filter off into different folders.

However, I got one yesterday from As Seen On Screen that was wishing me a Happy Birthday and giving me a £10 voucher! How cool is that?

I don’t how innovative it is but I’ve certainly never seen anything similar. It’s such a good marketing technique. I feel loved by ASOS and I’m likely to go and give them my cash now.

The only thing they did wrong was they didn’t seem to know my name even though they new my date of birth. I’m willing to overlook it though ‘cos they sent me a voucher and a personal email.

Whoever runs their marketing department is doing a good job in my opinion!

I’m an advocate of the more tag for a number of reasons - some people don’t like it but I use it where I feel it is appropriate.

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Well I’ve used Twitter once - I signed up and Twittered or whatever they call it, and then never used it again! Why? Because it seems totally pointless to me. It’s like a limited Facebook. I don’t have any friends on Twitter whereas I have loads of friends on Facebook.

As far as I can tell, though I may be wrong, is that the twitter thing is pretty much the same as the Facebook status update. Why would I bother with Twitter when I have Facebook?

If someone can provide me with a compelling reason then I may go and check it out again but otherwise I’m really not fussed.

Hello everyone, I’m back from the Freshers’ blogging hibernation! I don’t have nearly as much time to blog at uni as I would have liked so I’m going to have to try and blog in batches and make good use of the future post option!

Anyway - here’s some of the interesting things that have caught my eye over the last few weeks.

How to Optimize for Ask. These are supplementory tips to the guide to How to Optimize for Yahoo!. Nice straight forward stuff you can put into action right now!

Interesting little post from Lyndoman about Social Bookmarking and SEO. If you have any spare time it could be a useful experiment.

Free SEO site review from a pro. Read it and work out what you can apply to your site(s)!

A nice interview with Eli from BluehatSEO. With the usual lack of paragraphing from Eli ;)!

A guide from someone I worked with for a bit about reputation management

Some tips for social media success.

Unsurprisingly it takes a lot of time to blog properly. For the first few months of this blog I didn’t invest much time and consequently it didn’t really take off at all.

In September I had a month where I had finished work and hadn’t quite started university and managed to blog quite a lot and Conversion Matters was just starting to take of a little, however now I’ve started university and it’s quite hard to find the time to blog as much as I’d like.

Many people naively think you could spend half an hour a day blogging and that would be enough. It’s just not true!

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