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I'm definitely doing something wrong! Our UK Biz directory has received 10 visits and our shopping site has had 3 visits

Think we need a Pinterest Masterclass post!

I blow hot and cold on FB and G+. What I'm currently doing which seems to work well is building up my Linked following, as those contacts naturally seem to want to connect on FB and G+, which I use really just for branding of the forum and business directories.

Guess it depends on target audience, and being a forum/directory I'm lucky this gives me a wider then usual interest group, than maybe a photographer or cake maker, but I guess the theory is the same.

Not saying this is the way to go, but seems to be working for me.

lol Google, that well known SEO company

Welcome aboard btw

Well while Google is reducing organic results, Bing has dived in and started increasing them!

There doesn't seem to be an awful lot of logic to it at the moment, and Microsoft say they are still experimenting with the format, but Search Engine Land has a good screen shot of lots of organic results!

More Than 10 Is The New 10 Blue Links For Bing

Not really a surprise, but UK retail shopping and online shopping was down in Aug according to the beeb:
BBC News - Retail sales 'hurt by Olympics' in August

With everyone tuned to the Olympics, people were staying at home or buying less online.

For us, it's been quite a slow sales July/August comparable with last year, which we've put down to the Jubilee, Eurocup and Olympics. Hopefully September will now return to normality.

That said, we've seen an increase in mobile traffic, which I guess is people sat on the sofa

So what's everyone else's experience? Are things slowly returning to normal, or maybe you saw an increase in sales during the Olympics, and are bucking the trend!

Now it will be the family hard drive

Theres a wealth of tools out there, but it depends what it is you are looking for, ie what aspect of SEO. Plus, the old adage, you get what you pay for. Some of the basic licenses aren't that dear, SEOmoz for example is about $90 per month.

If you want to learn about SEO, SEM etc or have access to their tools, then it's not a great expense for such an important part of your online marketing.

Majestic SEO has a site explorer, dunno what limitations this has for free use.

Here's a good one as we move into the digital library age with our music and films.

Did you know when you download stuff from iTunes or Amazon, you are actually leasing the media with a lifetime license that expires when you do

Apparently Bruce Willis is taking on Apple as he has a vast iTunes collection which he has found out he won't be able to pass (legally) on to his kids when he's gone.

As there's no way of currently enforcing digital ownership, then just download it to a big hard drive and keep quiet

But an interesting situation and I've no doubt technology will catch up and we will have to do a retina scan to access our iPods or send Apple some DNA So it will be good if old Bruce does a Die Hard on Apple, and be interesting to see what publicity it gets or if it changes anything.

Can also be a good SEO trick, if you want your URL to rank for certain keywords, which your physical pagename might not be optimised for.

eg: this page on our job board is called /cv-wizard.php but is renamed /free-cv

The site dev did a rewrite from a header include:

<li <?php if ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] == "/cv-wizard.php"){ echo "id='current'";} ?> ><a href="<?php echo ABS_URL;?>free-cv"</a></li>

Over my head, but may be of help?

yup agreed, unfortunately you know it won't happen like that, it will be competing companies, different standards, with only one eventual winner, who will buy the other one out 5 years later

Only people who will lose will be us mugs that back the wrong horse...

Good to finally see all this electric car innovation, especially around it's nemesis, range!