Posts by Mike Blackburn on Internet Marketing

I'm not the most prolific twitterer in the world, I often wonder like many people whether I'm a good twitterer and if my thoughts have any value to anyone. We were talking about this in the office the other day and being someone who's fond of playing with numbers I came up with a very smple... read more

Earlier today I attended the launch of the Creative Credits scheme in Manchester. It was a very well attended event which included an interesting debate organised by Nesta about the important issues facing Manchester in the new economy.Creative Credits are an experimental attempt to engender... read more

Every day businesses are bombarded with offers from companies hoping to help them acquire links to boost their site's performance on Google.We'd be the last people to suggest that links don't have an effect, but as has been discussed previously on this blog you have to be careful how you use... read more

I've just read with amazement an article in today's Crains about a Liverpool search firm CL5 that has been awarded a grant by North West Vision and Media to set up an office in Manchester. To be quite frank I can't believe it - search is one of the few parts of the market that are really... read more

I have just been reading on one of our law client's blogs about a recent ruling from the High Court which seems to suggest that bloggers' no longer have a right to anonymity. Following a case which resulted in the author of a blog entitled "Nightjack" being outed,  bloggers can now be... read more

Some people watch stocks go up and down, SEO’ers watch listings. One of the most watched sites is GoCompare. They advertise heavily on TV which drives strong brand awareness – people know the GoCompare name. What typically happens is that they then go to the internet and type... read more

Google has just launched a new tool within Analytics called Google Visualizer.It's really very interesting and allows you to plot various site performance results on a graph and then see how they've evolved over a set period.I did a little experiment on one of our client's results to try to test... read more

I've just come across this 1994 promotional video about the internet from The Digital Equipment Corporation.I was at University in 1994 and remember using the internet to download games like the Prince of Persia. Looking back I remember it (the internet) being very textual but to be honest... read more

Three things that really get my goat day-to-day as we try to run a SEO business. In no particular order they are: Recruitment Companies - we must take at least 15 calls a day from agents looking to provide us with staff. We're fortunate enough to be growing but they should learn that... read more

There's lots of discussion in the blogosphere about shortfalls in Google's local service, see this article from Blogstorm.The bloggers are complaining that searches for non-geographic specific phrases are now including local search results dependent on Google's best guess of your location. The... read more