Addthis...

... and I have... and it works...

I'm luvin' it, again

So yesterday I was loving Google for finding my long-lost blog. Today I'm loving them for putting me at the top of their natural search rankings for a number of terms such as interim marketing solutions and interim marketing in Oxford. Given that my pathetically diddly site has a miserable three pages of which only one is properly editable, I'm pretty chuffed to be on page 1 for anything other that Oxford Events Marketing.

I'm also loving the little add this button (see http://www.addthis.com/) on the future of social media conference registration page http://www.futureofsocialmedia.co.uk/register. Why, because it is the best list of all those social networking sites etc that I've ever seen in one place... I want it on my site...and I want it NOWWWWWW!!!!!

Why I love Google

Ok, people either love Google or hate it. Right now I'm sitting here feeling BIG LUV for our friends at googleplex HQ. The lovely free Analytics tool allowed me to seriously impress (yes, it's a split infinitive but I'm feeling all warm and glowing towards our cousins across the pond, so am happy to adopt their lax grammar just for the moment) my current paymasters at LexisNexis (http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/) with some impressive stats comparing their old and frankly embarrassing site with the new site I've just built for them (http://www.conferencesandtraining.com/). The seven-fold increase in traffic over the first two weeks has got to be worth shouting about. Built using EpiServer CMS (http://www.episerver.com/) and by those nice people at Foresite (http://www.fsite.com/) it is all working pretty damn well. Yes there are one or two bugs to sort out, but this site - though it looks simple - is very complicated with lots of content being delivered automatically from a backend legacy database.
All those nice graphs and figures from Google are showing that the site is seriously kicking the butt of the old one...
...but this is not why Im really in lurve with Google this week... No, it's because when I created my Analytics account for my own personal site http://www.johnwallace.org.uk/ the account remembered I had this blog going...which I'd completely forgotten about - and even signed me in. I'm impressed, and will as a result be returning more frequently.
Byeeee