Tweet A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about using Siri to create content. Since then I’ve been playing more with Siri in my workflow, and have got a number of ways of working with “him”. In my original article I talked about saving content from my iPhone in to Dropbox to synch [...]

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Tweet Like many people I’ve recently bought an iPhone 4S and as you probably know one of the features it has is the personal assistant Siri. To be honest I’m a bit mixed about Siri because on one hand he (I’m using the British English version of Siri which is a man’s voice) on one [...]

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Tweet Google says it has made significant changes to the way in which their algo works to favour fresh content, which they say will affect 35% of searches. The official Google announcement says:  We completed our Caffeine web indexing system last year, which allows us to crawl and index the web for fresh content quickly [...]

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Tweet I remember when I first signed up for AWeber and it seemed like a long uphill struggle to get names onto my mailing list. Well, this report from Dan Raine will kickstart your list by using the power of Facebook. At 29 pages long it goes into details and it doesn’t cost a dime! [...]

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Tweet Back in February 2010 I spent a weekend in Valencia to meet up with Graham Hunt and Dom Goucher, two fellow Brits living in Spain who I’d met at Ed Dale’s “Coming Come” conference in Manchester the previous November. The weekend was partially social (Arctic Monkeys gave a free gig) but partially about brainstorming [...]

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Tweet When I first read about this I assumed it meant that Google was doing away with the keyword tool, but it turns out to be affecting Google Analytics. This update will mean that organic keywords used to find a webpage will only be logged by Analytics if a user is NOT logged into a [...]

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Tweet I noticed a drop off in traffic from a three websites last Friday (14th October) and upon investigaing found the rankings for two of those websites had dropped a few places but remained on the first page of Google, but for a website I’m currently working on getting ranked in a highly competitive market [...]

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Tweet I noticed yesterday that Google’s toolbar PR was showing a grey bar for all websites I visited. While it’s well known that Matt Cutts would be happy to kill toolbar PR, it appears that its death has been exagerated and it’s simply a matter of Google changing the URL used to access the data. [...]

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Tweet Interesting article on creativity published on Copyblogger today talking about two types of creativity. I’m sure you’ll recognise these two architypes if you look around little, I know I certainly do. I was reading Jonathan Fields’ new book Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance this weekend, and one of the insights [...]

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Tweet Looks like Google’s new (ish) +1 button is being rolled out more widely with the news that it’s being added to AdSense. It’ll be interesting to see how much difference it makes. Starting in October, the +1 button will begin to appear on display ads on your site. With a single click, people will [...]

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