http://promotinglondon.com/blog Online marketing & [mainly] related other things Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:06:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To celebrate the coming of Spring the cost of a basic tag has been reduced to £20 from £30. This is a limited time offer until the end of March 2008 so if you have been putting off claiming one now is the perfect opportunity to get your personal promotional ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=17 I haven't had much time to post to this blog over the last few months and frankly, in terms of new trends and ideas for promoting and marketing websites, the market seemed to be undergoing a period of consolidation and rationalisation more than anything. Then, out of the blue last ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=15 It seems the Google datacentres have all finally updated their records to reflect the latest published pagerank scores. As mentioned previously, this means the price of a standard advertising tag in the Promoting London wordcloud has been raised to the intermediate level of £42 for a guaranteed minimum three years ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=14 From the look of things it would appear that Google are in the midst of a pagerank update, a time when all knowledgeable webmasters cross their fingers and hope that their sites get a boost from the changes [and definitely do not suffer a relegation to a lower value]. There ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=13 As traffic was beginning to settle down here at PromotingLondon I decided it was time to go out marketing and seek some new hyperlinks by submitting the site to some of the plethora of small online directories that exist out in cyberspace. Spent much of yesterday with the submission process ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=12 I'm a little surprised by this piece from the Click team at the BBC. OK, so there are some good general points about PPC and the rest but they seem to buy into the PR myth surrounding the Arctic Monkeys rise to fame with a great naivety. Surely the idea ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=11 It would seem the summer lull in business oriented search on Google has ended. The adwords campaign I am running for the PromotingLondon.com word cloud has shown a noticeable increase in click throughs and the necessary bid amount to get a decent placing on Google search results with many of ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=10 Chitika recently announced an expanded range of advert sizes along with an increase in the product categories. At least now it should prove easier to fit their ads into whatever web page layout you might be using. See the example below for an idea of how well it can be ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=9 Launched the adwords [tag]campaign[/tag] for PromotingLondon.com today, as in the past I prefer a Saturday start as it tends to allow a couple of quiet days to engage in fine tuning. Perhaps due to the hot weather and being the middle of the summer holidays there has been remarkedly little ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=8 In re-reading Trickle Down I realised that I had forgotten to say a big thank you to Arun & Abhishek at WordSiteBuilder.com for supplying and installing the script which powers the word cloud here. It was they who took the original word cloud ideas that were being promoted & pushed ... http://promotinglondon.com/blog/?p=7