Google Alphabet and Personal Alphabet

Google graduated its Suggest tool out of labs last week. A couple of blogs have listed the Google Alphabet (ie what Google suggests for each letter) in English and French.
If you're a Firefox 3 user (and if you're not, you really should be) then you can create your own personal alphabet using the Smart Location [...]

Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Paid Search

There are loads of blog posts recommending Firefox add-ons (aka extensions) for SEO, but what about for those of us who are managing paid search campaigns?  Here are a few of my favourite add-ons:

Oh the Hilarity!

Please, please, stop with the April Fool's stuff, it really isn't funny. Sorry to sound like an old curmudgeon, but the 'jokes' on the web get worse each and every year.  Yes, the PigeonRank thing was amusing, but it's so tired now.

Search Marketing Predictions for 2008

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. Yogi Berra
There seems to be no shortage of predictions around this time of the year.  I find them very enjoyable to read, though I don't take them very seriously.  That's no disrepect to the authors of the predictions, just that forecasting the future is very difficult [...]

New domain: SearchBeest.com

I've finally pulled my finger out, bought searchbeest.com and changed this blog's hosting away from Wordpress.com. Starting the blog on Wordpress.com broke the first rule of new blogs (or rule #2 according SEOmoz and rule #11 according to Netconcepts; and while you're at those sites, admire what wonderful link bait these lists make).
So [...]

Efficient Frontier dans la Presse Français

Parlez-vous Francais? Si oui, lisez cet article de James Beriker, le président de Efficient Frontier, dans Le Journal du Net. C'est tres intéressant sur notre activité en France et nos ambitions en Europe.

Hello World

Welcome. I thought I’d start my first post with the traditional ‘Hello World’ greeting - this is the Internet, after all.
There are a million and one blogs on search marketing, and I’m going to try hard not to imitate them by blogging every time Larry Page scratches his nose or looking for hidden meanings in [...]