Well Google are extending their shopping engine – checkout the video or the blog post for more info
Penny Shooter Business Card
Feb 16
Warehouse Hunt
Sep 10
So once again eBay are changing the rules for sellers so once again we need to work out how to react to their changes to keep the business alive. This time round the changes mean that shipping time is critical so our 14 day delivery from Shanghai can only live for so long, so off we go to Shenzen to find a cross dock and a new speedier delivery system.
This should mean that customers get their goods quicker but costs will likey increase as well but doing business in the south of China is a different beast compared to the north after all most of the goods exported to the world are made down there and then shipped out through Hong Kong.
Great video from Jeff BeZos about Amazon and what his keys to success are:
Snow Leopard
Aug 27
To say I am looking forward to Snow Leopard is an understatement – the prospect of getting rid of Microsoft Entourage is making me giddy, my only worry is that it won’t live up to the dream. So when at 6pm today here in Shanghai I get an email saying it is in the post I jumped for joy (literally and in a lift which freaked some people out). How do I get my copy of OS X – well first it is shipped to my address in England and from there we FedEx it to China – mad but seeing as they are not releasing it in China on the same day its the only way I can get my hands on a copy right now, well three or four days behind the rest of you but oh well.
It seems some people might already have an early release as the articles are starting to come out including this from Engadget but more interestingly is the fact that I think this next one also from Engadget is spot on, they talk about how the Exchange support will have people moving over in flocks. Perhaps not flocks but if they really have got it right and it all works as you expect Apple products to work then all that is left is for people to realise that iWork is a great product or OpenOffice gets their load time down to something under 30 seconds with some better web 2.0 style graphics then the whole world can tell Microsoft to stuff it.
Photo by FransBadger
Checkout this great little interview where the founder of Mosso now Rackspace Cloud talks over their products.
Weekly SEO Round Up
Aug 24
Link Building
- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/natural-link-building/12582/
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-for-small-ecommerce-sites
- http://searchengineland.com/a-case-study-using-contests-to-build-links-23776
- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/keyword-research-synonyms/12540/
Social Media
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4408-five-easy-ways-to-make-your-business-website-more-social
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/early-detection-how-social-media-may-save-the-world
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4436-social-media-engagement-good-habits-are-hard-to-start
- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-to-target-users-within-social-networks/12558/
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4451-what-can-email-marketing-learn-from-twitter-blogs-and-other-social-media-channels-2
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_use_facebook_5_tips_for_better_social_networking.php
- http://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-employees-need-social-media-guidelines/12588/
PPC
- http://www.searchmarketinggurus.com/search_marketing_gurus/2009/08/dont-gamble-with-your-ppc-campaigns-save-it-for-the-casinos.html
- http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/increase-google-adwords-quality-scores-by-enhancing-user-experience
- http://www.thinkseer.com/blog/the-dos-donts-of-googlebase-avoid-the-headaches-keep-making-money/2009/08/21/
On Site
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4413-e-commerce-delivery-options-key-tips
- http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-importance-of-nofollow-links
- http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/on-site-evaluation-in-action-what-where-and-how.html
- http://searchengineland.com/how-to-handle-an-seo-setback-24052
- http://searchenginewatch.com/3634740
Random
- http://www.getelastic.com/top-ten-2-dot-0/
- http://www.seobook.com/fox-news-blasts-seo
- http://www.seobook.com/google-adds-keyword-predictions
- http://wordpress.tv/2009/05/30/matt-cutts-google-sf09/
- http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/us-websites-break-into-uk-serps-join-the-invasion
- http://www.aimclearblog.com/2009/08/20/how-savvy-advertising-agencies-outsource-search/
- http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
Tools
update: edited to fix the broken links – sorry about that.
The best ppt about Eye Candy
Aug 24
Going to make this required reading for the company next week!
Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement
View more documents from Stephen Anderson.
SEO Weekly Round Up
Aug 17
Affiliate Marketing
Analytics
- http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/08/web-analytics-into-money/
- http://www.getelastic.com/is-analyzing-time-on-site-a-waste-of-time/
Link Building
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/link-building-for-small-ecommerce-sites
- http://www.seobook.com/hanging-out-established-places
Social Media
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4394-18-observations-on-twitter-and-seo
- http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/enterprise-twitter-tools/
- http://www.thisisherd.com/2009/08/online-arena-and-changing-definition-of.html
- http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/ruud-questions-hugo-guzman.html
On Site
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4393-how-to-impress-the-different-search-engines
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-matt-cutts-on-nofollow
- http://seogadget.co.uk/the-future-of-seo-structured-markup/
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4434-q-a-paul-cook-on-his-new-tag-optimisation-research
Random
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/4-essential-seo-infographics
- http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/08/optimize-search-engage-community/
- http://www.seobook.com/google-caffeine
- http://econsultancy.com/blog/4400-how-will-your-site-rank-with-google-caffeine
- http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/08/google-caffeine-test-suggests-too-much-emphasis-on-real-time-indexing.html
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-much-do-rankings-matter
- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/this-week-in-search-for-81309
update: fixed the broken links – sorry about that.