Author: Quentin Pain
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Google Map Generator for Websites
If you have been searching for a way to generate the code to insert a Google map on your website and been totally frustrated by not being able to find out how, you have come to the right place. First off, ignore all those sites that come up on the search engines asking you to…
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How much traffic is a website getting?
The first thing to understand is that all traffic to a website is not equal. I realise you may already know that, but how many people pick a high traffic keyword, get it ranked and find none of it converts? So before we start, here is the fastest route to picking a keyword that will…
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What is the Meaning of Life?
One of the things that has always perplexed me (and a few billion others maybe) is the meaning of life, and having just discovered it last night I thought I would share it with you 🙂 When I was growing up I quickly discovered that unless someone told me why I should do something, I had…
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Why is my site not ranking anymore?
Back in 2012 I watched a page on one of my sites slip from position #3 down to #1,114 on Google for a specific keyword that had 40,500 phrase match searches a month in the UK. Before I share with you what I discovered, you may want to check out your own site from Google’s…
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The State of Advertising 2012
Greg Voakes recently wrote a column in Business Insider on the ‘current’ trend of so called authenticity prevalent in the advertising world. The irony of authenticity is that the last thing you ever need to do to achieve it is ask for it. It’s rather like the word ‘quality’. Academics have been trying to define…
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Why is Google asking for a captcha?
Like many people, I have been using Google search for a long time, but today for the first time I was challenged by Google when I searched for ‘0118’ (I was trying to find the location of this UK STD number). Google said that in order to check that the search was not coming from…
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Super Simple Productivity
The blogger Seth Godin has said in the past that the only thing that matters in any business is shipping; that is, the ability to finish something and ship it to customers. Another hero of mine, CD Baby founder, Derek Sivers, has an interesting chart that compares ideas with actions and the value of them.…
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How To Be A Best Selling Author
By 2100, it has been forecast that the total world population went past the 11 billion barrier, so if there is one thing you should take away from this, it is that there is a never ending supply of new readers out there, and how to be a best selling author will get easier and…
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Negative SEO
Google has been on the warpath for spammers for years, but the changes they made to their algorithm caused a lot of anguish amongst bona-fide site owners. It also helped to make the so called Negative SEO business go mainstream. One of the linchpins of SEO is backlinking, and up until recently it was a…
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How Do You Get Your Bounce Rates Down?
One of the most annoying metrics used by SEs (Search Engines) are bounce rates. The higher they are, the less well you will do. What is a Bounce Rate? Someone searches for an answer to a problem, or for some further information to help solve a problem. It could be as simple as ‘cheapest iPad’…