How to Deal with Google Personalised Results and the Effects

If you work for an internet marketing company you will fully understand what I’m talking about. If you don’t, one day soon you are probably going to run into this issue so keep reading.

Google’s Personalised results is their way to show results to a user that they think would suit them best based on that users browsing and click history; for the average Google user, this is great news. However, when you are checking hundreds of keywords for tens of sites there can be some big issues; let me explain.

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11 Comments / June 11th, 2008 / SEO

7 Things I Implement in a New Blog Design

With the new focus on a future of full-time blogging, I’ve been working hard on the look of ViperChill and on the look of another blog that I will be officially launching sometime next week.

I’ve designed three websites from scratch in the last week and a half so while everything is still fresh on my mind I wanted to take a look at the types of things I include and my reasons for doing so. Hopefully, if you agree with any of them you may be able to tweak your current design to include them or keep a note of this post for a future re-design.

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6 Comments / June 9th, 2008 / Social Media

How ViperChill reached 500 Feed Subscribers

So, recently our feed count crossed the 500 mark and made it to 511. Whilst I don’t want to be “blowing my own trumpet” I am going to take a look at the main principles that helped us reach this target and some of the things that hindered it.

To be honest, 500 feed subscribers aren’t that much compared to some of our fellow bloggers but it is a milestone and one that I am personally proud of. It has taken 2 years to get to this point, i only believe I really started blogging in the last 10 months; we had only 40 feed subscribers when we first added the Feedburner chicklet.

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18 Comments / June 5th, 2008 / PluginHQ, Social Media

If You Want to Become a Success…Follow Your Passion

I’m sure many of you have heard this time and time again, I know I have. You have already envisioned the rest of this post:

“Write about what you love”

“Forget about the money, that will come later”

As with most people, you have probably dismissed ideas like these and looked at what others are having success with and tried to copy that. I’ve learned these statements are the truth the hard way, let me explain.

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10 Comments / June 3rd, 2008 / Business

ViperChill Re-Design and BIG Changes

Despite how long I’ve wanted to do something as radical as this, I’ve never been able to bring myself to accept such a big change. Partly for the fear of letting others down who have come to know this site for what it is and what it offers, and partly because this is a complete u-turn in what I’ve been offering and doing for the last 2 years.

What am I talking about? I’ve decided I no longer want to be focused on doing services, and want to continue my passion for blogging and helping others succeed on an information level, rather than client level.

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10 Comments / June 1st, 2008 / PluginHQ