I’m pleased to confirm the venue details for Harrogate SEO.
Meet from 6pm in the Edward Room at the Cairn Hotel Harrogate (map). There is a bar available and we can chat about SEO, blogging etc. Perhaps we will have a site clinic or something too.
If you can’t make it by 6 don’t worry, just turn up whenever you can.
At 8.30 we have a table for 25 people booked at Joe Rigatoni which is an Italian restaurant just down the road.
If you don’t have my mobile number please drop me an email patrick @ branded3.com.
Just to clear something up, I don’t really think the BBC is greedy or selfish, that was just my way of drawing attention to what is quite an important issue. Read more →
There is a huge opening in the UK for somebody to build a market leading finance blog and it’s just a matter of time before somebody decides to take the plunge.
Google likes to see diversity in the search results so to have a blog ranking for “loans”, “car insurance” and “mortgages” wouldn’t cause them any problems.
The key would be to hire expert writers from one of the leading finance publications as well as a PR company that was able to get the site into the mainstream media.
Top this off with minimal monetisation for the first year and an aggressive SEO strategy and for a modest initial investment you could have something worth £10 million in two to three years.
Financial info site BankRate is expanding its financial product listings, as it’s acquiring Bankaholic, which provides info on deposits, savings accounts, and money market accounts. The company will pay $12.4 million up front, with another $2.5 million possible earnout over the next 12 months.
Bankaholic’s sole employee John Wu will assist in the transition and remain for an unspecified period of time. BankRate, of course, is exposed to some of the nastier aspects of the economy, though it’s held up fairly well and continued to grow.
This might seem an overly dramatic headline but it seems that Google is having trouble indexing certain WordPress blogs.
DaveN spotted the issue first when he realised his new blog posts were missing from the Google search index even though Google had spidered them and included them in the blog search results. Read more →
