Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Crawl Errors in Foreign Language - Webmaster Tools

Interesting view in Google Webmaster Tools this morning, 'crawl errors' are reading in different languages, first German:


Followed with French:

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

PriceGong & Google Chrome

PriceGong in Google Chrome is this fair?

You've selected a website to purchase a product, in this case a DVD, then at the bottom right of your screen a pop-up appears offering the same product, probably cheaper, from Amazon, The Hut, Computer-Active Direct, Spend It, &c - this is PriceGong, an add on from Google Chrome:

pricegong and google chrome


Friday, 23 December 2011

Contact Us – Website ‘Call to Action’

When you visit an ecommerce website the 'call to action' that guides you to make your purchase is pretty simple, it's usually a lovely big button that says 'BUY':

buy now button
So why, when you visit an information based website, or for example, an accommodation website this 'call to action' button is missing?

Thursday, 13 October 2011

Category for Google Keyword Tool

From apparel to the most unique category, that's what Google's Keyword Tool now offers:









How beneficial is this for the SEO and PPC aficionado, well it basically cuts out a lot of the mix up and the huge list of irrelevant kewords that the tool used to generate.

And just in case you never noticed before, and weren't adding 'sneakers' to your USA PPC for the UK word 'trainers' or were simply mixing up USA & UK keywords, now the tool also clearly depicts location.

Good work Google

Monday, 26 September 2011

Facebook Business Profile Visible to Public

There are probably 2 reasons why your Facebook business page is not visible to the public; even though your using the correct business profile URL, e.g.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-business/123456789...

And it's frustrating, because you click on the link and get the log-in page:

facebook log-in page












But it is easily fixed.

Monday, 19 September 2011

Website Domain Name Change - Think First!

You want to change your website's domain name, why? Is it because you want one with your business' relevant keywords in it - simple or maybe not.

You probably started out with a funky or quirky domain name, say:

www.bobscoolstore.com

But now a few years down the line you realise you want to actually generate some money through the website, its vanity role is over. So, your business is selling blue widgets, therefore you think the optimum domain name would be:

www.bluewidgets.com

Friday, 26 August 2011

Blogspot to Custom Domain with LCN Registrar

You want to transfer your Blogspot Blog, that's Google's free Blogging platform, to your own custom domain, and your website is hosted with the LCN registrar, that is:

http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com
to
http://blog.websitedomainname.com

It's all a lot easier than I initially found.

I won't go into the ins-and-outs of why you want to make the change from Blogspot to custom domain because if you've got this far you've made the decision that you want to make the change.

Firstly I don't need to re-run through the whole procedure because here is a cracking page which explains How do I use a custom domain name for my blog?

Once you've got past these two stages: