Its no secret that I've said before that SEO is dead. Well, it's still a massive industry and companies pay SEOs big bucks to try and push their websites onto the first page of Google. The fact that it's not worth doing unless you're in the #1 – #3 spot is not talked about at […]
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JC Penney Learns SEO the Hard Way
I'm stunned that a company the size of JC Penney has seemingly blundered into the SEO world so recently. I would have a expected them to have been honing and refining their search engine optimization strategy and the rankings that go with it for years. However, from the article I'm about to link you too, […]
Google Dominates Search Advertising in 2010
Well hardly surprising really but the chaps at Google must be rubbing their hands with glee. Why? It's estimated Google’s full-year search advertising revenue last year rose 20 percent to $25.4 billion. That's $25,400,000,000.00 folks. This gave Google a market share of 83 percent in 2010, up from 81 percent in 2009. Well hoohar! But […]
Google API
Well Google doesn’t like you to use their maps api unless you pay them 10 grand for enterprise use, so we decided to go a slightly different route. The problem was that G blocked the service to our IP address for 24 hours after repeatedly using the service. Thanks G! Â Instead of using the API […]
Geocoding with Google
I’ve been working on a project using the Google maps API recently. I’ve been using it to return the latitude and longtitude of an address and then comparing it against a geo-coded file in a database. The Google maps API is pretty extensive and fairly easy to use. However, there are some things that you […]
