You have probably all heard of the Google Caffeine sandbox test that the powers that be have unveiled for us to look at. Well thanks to our good friend Sean Revell, we have been made aware of a website that lets you compare old google results vs google caffeine results at http://www.comparecaffeine.com/. Give it a try

I will be launching my own SEO for Beginners resource with SeoForDummies.co.uk,  please come take a look and see whats going on

I personally have never seen this before, but it is a great clear beginners guide to SEO straight from the horses mouth. You may know most of this information but it acts for a good refresher course.  Download the pdf here: Google’s SEO Starter Guide

We would like to announce the departure of Sean Revell from the SEO team, while he was a good friend we had to let him go after he was found to have been stealing paperclips

A Handsome Man

Remember back in the day when you used to see AOL Keywords printed on video cassettes and adverts, well it seems the trend maybe starting back up again. While watching a tv trailer for Watchmen on British TV I noticed that at the end of the advert it displayed a message along the lines of “Search online for Watchmen”. So are some companies deciding to ditch giving out urls and giving out keywords. I will report back when I find out more on this topic.

In light of Barack Obama being announced as the 44th US President I thought I would take a look at Google’s top 10 Search result listings for his name. So overall it looks like we have some good quality relevant results with no spammy sites jumping on the band wagon.

After some News posts we have the number one result, the official Campaign Page for Barack. Next up we have the wikipedia page for Barack where you can learn everything (well almost) you wanted to know about America’s next president. For the hipper voters, in the top 10 we have Obama’s Facebook, MySpace and Twitter feeds. It seems that Obama or his team are certainly up with current web trends and I truly believe that the Internet has played a substantial role in his Presidential win. These web 2.0 results are followed up by some good old fashioned News Outlets to keep you up to date with the role.

Im sure the McCain party tried to use the Internet to their advantage, but it just seemed during the presidential run that the Internet generally speaking had Obama’s back.

Paul Teitelman has come up with his top 25 paid directories which you can check out here on his website Search Engine People. We have shown the top 10 from his list, but please visit the site to read the rest. Paid directories are much debated issue at the moment. So think carefully about where to spend you money.

1.) Family Friendly Sites
2.) Incrawler
3.) Kahuki
4.) Greenstalk
5.) Rakcha
6.) Joeant
7.) Splash Directory
8.) Goguides
9.) Enquira
10.) ALS Links