Tuesday 30 October 2007

Google PageRank and Google Sitelinks

Google have pushed out a new batch of PageRank and Sitelinks, from which I received my Google Page Rank of #1 and no sitelinks. I imagine you need an awful lot of traffic to be able to merit getting sitelinks but for the moment I will keep plugging away at the web design edinburgh keyword and see how we get on. Strangely, enough this blog got a Google PageRank of #2, higher than the website?

Sunday 28 October 2007

Google Analytics in Edinburgh - stat chat that went flat

On Thursday evening I attended the Google Analytics chat in Edinburgh in an audience split down the middle between scruffy developers and smart suited managers, a talk been given by three smart suited speakers. It started off as it meant to go on, the speakers reading the lines off the power point presentation and the audience beginning to drift as the speakers very quickly descended into a thinly disguised buy my product/buy my service pitch. But Google Analytics is free!! But it was custom built for Adsense and Adwords users.
The best question of the night was on whether the hits coming out of China were being clipped by the great firewall of china, the answer to which is no, another Google contra deal I suppose.
In the end, everybody got to see a side of Google which was not all geek-chic, but a guy in a smart shirt in front of a power point presentation talking to men in smart shirts about how to make more money.
Bounce Rate: Extremely High!!

Sunday 21 October 2007

Edinburgh Groups in Facebook

I don't know if any Edinburgh users of Facebook have noticed that the majority of groups in and around the topic of Edinburgh are being used by three main groups - students (the alumni army), visitors (see a photo of me outside a mounment) and advertisers (look at the nice image it says buy me). Where are have all the Edinburgh bloggers gone? Where have all the Edinburgh people gone?

It should be noted that a third of Scotland is without Broadband!!