Patrick Altoft's Blog

One of the most common responses tech savvy people make when they find out my job is to get websites higher up the search engine rankings is "Oh, so you have a big network of sites and link use them to promote clients sites".

My answer is and always will be a straight "No".

This week has seen the introduction of new rules allowing Google Adwords customers to bid on other peoples trademarks but is anybody doing it?

Initially on Tuesday (the day the policy change was enforced) we saw a large number of adverts for brand name terms but these ads are no longer showing.

Reputation management and reputation monitoring are hot topics in 2008 and there are a whole host of resources that offer cost effective ways to manage your brand online.

Most of the discussions about paid links focus on the issue from a webmaster or SEO’s point of view.

In this post I want to have a think about the issue from Google's point of view.

This week I've been looking into a few finance verticals and found an interesting illustration of just how much power one trusted link can have.

Since the world cottoned on to the fact that search engine optimisation was all about linkbuilding, the world's greatest online marketers have been trying to develop Google-friendly, scalable, linkbuilding solutions.

Hitwise has been looking into GoCompare again and has some extremely interesting stats on how its traffic has been rising, falling and rising again over the last few months.

Last year Google was warning webmasters that search results were not welcome in their index.

Last week it started generating its own search results from websites by filling in html forms. What's going on?

The number of people using the web is increasing every day, but the adoption rate of RSS as a technology is still way down at 5%.

Less than a week after Google made its controversial announcement regarding Adwords and the new trademark policy , a lawsuit in the US threatens to undermine its position.