Jon Hudghton - E-Commerce Development, SEO and Usability

Taking a Blogging Hiatus

Jon — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:38:10 +0000

I’ve not posted for a while, so I thought I’d better just explain why I’ve been such a lazy-arsed blogger recently. Outside of the usual 9-5 stresses, the main reasons are: The World Cup Trying to work more on various web projects Continuing to renovate our house The house is taking a lot of time [...]

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Hey Google World Cup Calendar – Can You Make Your Mind Up?

Jon — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:50:18 +0000

Google introduced a couple of neat features today in preparation for the 2010 World Cup (whoopie – can’t wait). The first was changing the pagination numbers at the bottom of the page to read “Gooooal” instead of “Goooogle”: Everyone loved this; Mashable featured it on their post (1100 Tweets at the time of writing this; I mean honestly) [...]

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Is Affiliate Skimming Still An Issue In 2010?

Jon — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:29:36 +0000

Having read and digested the title, I’m going to take a stab in the dark and presume you’re thinking one of three things: Of course skimming still goes on, you moron Skimming doesn’t happen anymore, it’s too risky for merchants What on earth is skimming? Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? In the interests of providing a good user [...]

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Why Super Brands Don’t Care About SEO

Jon — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:31:52 +0000

In the last couple of months, various studies and blog posts have cropped up regarding the SEO performance of large (super) brands. These posts and studies all show pretty much the same thing; lots of super brands don’t rank for diddly squat in the organic search engine results. US brands In an article over at Advertising Age, [...]

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The Nokia – Blackwell Briggs – Conspiracy For Good – Crap Viral Campaign

Jon — Sun, 23 May 2010 19:03:25 +0000

So, this isn’t my main post for this week (I’ll post something serious later this week), but I recently became aware of some horrible-ness on Youtube that warranted further investigation. I don’t profess to be an expert on viral marketing, but if I was going to create a viral video campaign, it would be NOTHING like [...]

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Easy Guide To Create Your Own URL Shortener

Jon — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:15:07 +0000

Since Twitter launched in 2006, shortening URLs to squeeze into that 140 character limit has become a popular pursuit. There are many URL shorteners out there already; I’ve always used Bit.ly by default and never had any issues. But then, I’ve started to see more and more custom URLs being used by various people. Techcrunch has [...]

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Understanding Intent To Buy

Jon — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:50:29 +0000

It feels like every blog post I read nowadays is about CRO; some good, some not so good. And no, I’m not talking about birds (that’s “Crow”), nor indeed a chain of Manchester bars (that’s “Kro”) but in fact Conversion Rate Optimisation. I know you knew that already of course, I’m just humouring you. The majority of these posts can be summarised [...]

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Why Google Just Can’t Suggest

Jon — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:57:45 +0000

Part 1 – Introduction Earlier this year, there were a spate of posts regarding Google’s Search Suggestions and how utterly, utterly terrible they are for UK users. I’m talking about both the AJAX suggestion feature when entering a search term (AKA Google Suggest) and the “did you mean” suggestions once you have searched. Some of the [...]

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How To Choose An SEO Company

Jon — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:41:21 +0000

Let’s suppose you have a website. And let’s also suppose it’s not yet large enough for you to commit to in-house SEO resources, but you think ranking higher in Google for some organic search terms would probably be a good idea. More traffic can lead to more sales and if you’ve never done any SEO work, [...]

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SAScon 2010 Preview

Jon — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:44:31 +0000

On April 28th, Manchester will be hosting the inaugural SAScon event, and I’ll be there. I must admit, I didn’t even know this event existed until recently; I think I read some murmurings on Twitter and had a poke about on the SAScon website. Once I’d read up a bit, the plan was to just send my colleague Phil from our development [...]

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