Category Archives: Search

Guest post: recombu shows how even affiliate sites are now competing with traditional media

Posted on September 1, 2009 by John Welsh

Peter Moore’s guest post does two things: first, he shows how far affiliate marketing companies are prepared to change their business models to maintain their paid search rankings and, second, he drums home the argument that it is content, and quality content … Continue reading →

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Seth Grimes on the semantic web – but is B2B media ready to benefit?

Posted on June 25, 2009 by John Welsh

Seth Grimes, an analyst specialising in business intelligence and text analysis, gave a fascinating presentation – “an introduction to the semantic web and text-mining” – last week in London. I will try and give you a flavour of his presentation … Continue reading →

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Guest post: how to be a better listener by becoming a Power Google Reader

Posted on March 9, 2009 by John Welsh

Many of my colleagues ask me how to get started in social media. I always say “listen”. Set up a Twitter profile, but do not Tweet. Read blogs, but do not comment. Listen to the conversation, before you dare to … Continue reading →

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Five more online skills you must master BEFORE you start a blog

Posted on January 28, 2009 by John Welsh

Earlier this week, I launched the first of my two part campaign to encourage people to master five online skills before they start a blog. I promised five more online skills. So here they are. Once again, I make suggestions for … Continue reading →

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These Digital Times achieves 2000 hits in weeks!

Posted on August 11, 2008 by John Welsh

This blog, These Digital Times, went over the 2000 hits mark earlier this evening. I had always realised that the majority of my readers are from the US – traffic rises as the day progresses in the US not the … Continue reading →

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Paul Way’s opinion on Viewzi

Posted on June 26, 2008 by John Welsh

My colleague Paul Way had some cool comments to make about Viewzi and Searchme which I repeat here: ” I think these new searches are very interesting although I don’t know if there is an immediate message we should be … Continue reading →

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