It's the pre-budget report today. Business Link, the government's advice service for businesses, is bidding on the term "pre budget report" in google's adverts.Maybe we could repair the budget deficit by wasting less money driving...
Topics: Bad reviews, Business Link, google, Internet

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Shownar is a BBC site that tracks the online buzz around the broadcaster's shows. Despite being paid for out of the licence fee, it's pulling the wool over bloggers' eyes by making out that, if you link to it, it will link back - but it's.
Topics: Bad reviews, google, Internet, nofollow, seo

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Google's rolling out personalised search to everyone, even if you're not signed in. It means that: The results you see aren't what everyone else sees, making SEO analysis that much harder. And If you do a rubbish job of selling your site...
Topics: google, Internet, seo

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UK national newspaper Twitter accounts are continuing to grow - but the rate is getting slower and slower, according to the latest figures for the 129 accounts I'm tracking. November to December growth was just 6.6%, down from 17% earlier in the...
Topics: FT, Guardian, Independent, Internet, Mail, Mirror, Newspapers, Sun, Telegraph, Times, Twitter, twitter statistics

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This roundup of what some paywalls look like when you hit them illustrates that publishers - and Johnston Press in particular - need to massively improve the way they promote the benefits of subscribing ...
Topics: Bad reviews, Internet, paywall

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