Communication is key?

The level of fail within the communication is sometimes breath-taking.

"Please contact us for specific banners relating to this"

"Can I have a banner relating to this"

"Er no we don't have any"

As ways of increasing communication increase it's important that it's backed up with sane and sensible options.

Don't communicate if you can not provide anything further.

And sometimes there's just too much in too short a time to be able to make sense of it.

another new link type spotted

I've just spotted yet another new link type on Google searches. This time rather than being an body of the text is it's actually one of the sponsored ads so they now got to 2 links in there ad.

Google new type of link

Is this new or have I just not noticed before?

Favicon more important now?

Just logged in and found that google webmaster tools sitemaps is showing the favicon. It's all pretty now!

Does this mean google is now putting some attention on whether you have a custom favicon now?

Cash for writing

Living the dream - get cash just for writing!


This is a program on a new network I've just signed up to called High Profits
They have some downloadable pdfs of information about getting traffic and building a website. That's certainly interesting!

Think Visibility

Went to see Yoast at Think Visibility 2. Was well worth the trip up the motorway and was well organised and fun.
I enjoyed Yoast's presentation and Julian's from the Telegraph and Judith Lewis's talks. The afternoon was also fun with Tom doing lots of fun graphs showing how important it is to make things easy to interact with. Then Zoe's talk was good.

You can see some pictures of the Think Visbility event here

Expired banners - things not to do

Do not send me a list of 90 numbers of expired banners and ask me to change them. It's tedious and very frustrating to waste time doing this.

Why?

Because I don't direct link to any graphic - all my banner links go through a network's database/tracking system.
So why should I need a change at my end?

Because going through 90 searches take an awful lot of my time and energy.

Because you could tell me which banners I use and on what urls and then I'd not have such a big list to go through, or at least be pinpoint accurate in what I was looking for.

I've got a useful code searcher that will go through all my sites looking for a number or url so although it's a chore it is possible. Just doing 90 is a bit silly as I know I've never used anywhere near that many banners from this merchant