Ok, this isn’t really a useful post to anybody at all… more a request for all these Bots to stop spamming me (if any of their users actually read this)
I’ve had 44 spam comments in the past 2 hours, really taking the utter piss now!
They are not even decent spam comments! All but 4 are total giberish!
Thank you, come again! (or don’t if it’s you spamming me!!)
I wanted to try and get a lot more posts on my blog this year – was considering trying to set myself a target of at least two a month and seeing if I could get myself into a regular pattern!
Unfortunately after finally getting done with the Christmas rush we have now had some changes at the company which has resulted in our Head of SEO leaving the company. I’ve got no doubt at all that Phill will land on his feet with all of this and get himself the next role that he wants – whether that role is self employed or looking for a head position elsewhere.
As for those of us that are left at Summit Media we now have more work to pick up between us, obviously just one of those things you cope with and get on with so not complaining about that.
To be honest… I’m not really sure this post has a point at all, but I felt like I needed to make up a “genuine” excuse for myself on why I’ve ALREADY broken my target for this site for the year, and we are not even out of January.
Oh well, there is always 2011!!
Well today I thought I’d finally have a proper look at the Search Game from SharkSEO.
I completed the first 16 questions in about 30min (admittedly I’d say a couple of them were more luck than skill) but question 17… my gosh that was annoying as hell!!
I even contacted Dave himself:
That just annoyed me even more and I sat there for about an hour then I helped my friend Darryl Leaning (without giving things away too much) get to the same stage as me at which point we both got really confused about it…
I then decided I was getting really annoyed and was going to tweet something disapprovingly to Dave on Twitter
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Then I saw it – I’m not going to say what it is because that would give it away for others but trust me, you’ll kick yourself!
Anyway, here we go 
Finally completed it and, although I’ve got no recognition because I forgot to save the image that said “I was a winner”, I still feel happy I accomplished it
I’ve now decided I’m fed up of using multiple RSS readers and trying to remember to check them all everyday in case I’ve missed anything important!!!
So, to actually do what was recommended to me by, well, everybody a long time ago I’ve now transferred all my feeds to Google Reader.
If you can think of anything funny / interesting / feeds I should be following please feel free to share them with me, my reader profile is http://www.google.com/profiles/inverseSEO
The agreement was originally scheduled to be announced in late October 2009. Surprise surprise this hasn’t happened!
Obviously it is a very complicated agreement that the two companies have to make and as such it is taking a lot longer than the original suggestion (as these things always do).
Both companies are apparently “optimistic” about a deal being completed early in 2010 although they haven’t yet specified a date (we’ll see, I think their idea of “early in 2010″ is going to be very different from other peoples)
Yahoo! and Microsoft are hoping that once they have come to an agreement and things get implemented they are going to be able to challenge Google’s dominance of the search field (well, pretty much everything as it seems to be heading) … Personally I think that they will make very little impact at all, even with their combined technologies Google must have a lot of projects in the background that they haven’t mentioned anywhere yet – as with most recent releases they always have something to compete!
A release, linked to by Hitwise UK Press Centre, by Livescience says:
According to Experian Hitwise, Google accounted for 71 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009. Yahoo! Search grabbed 16 percent and Bing 9 percent of searches, while the remaining 53 search engines accounted for just under 4 percent.
This gives Yahoo! and Bing a combined share of 25% compared to Google’s 71% share (admittedly US only)
This is compared to last years search shares which state that in December 2008 Google has a 72% share compared to the Yahoo! and MSN combined of 23%
Basically Yahoo! and Bing/MSN/Microsoft are going to have to pull out something pretty heroic in my eyes to make a major dint in the Google monopoly!