So they’re here. The UK edition of Google ig (the personalised homepage) has finally caught up with its American counterpart and gained tabs. Tabs allow the user to have a set of ‘pages’ on their ig homepage, allowing for greater flexibility in the layout of their homepage and how modules are categorised.

What I fail to understand is why it took so long? Before I started using the ig (admittedly it took a long time for me to start, too) I was using My Yahoo! as my personalised homepage. My Yahoo! has had ‘pages’ support for many, many years and seems such an obvious extension of the personalised homepage system that it’s surprising that Google took so long to implement it.

Commiserations to those who were using google.co.uk/ig as a way to get rid of the tabs - it’ll no longer work!

I read an article on seochat.com the other day, entitled ‘How to Steal to the Top of Google: Use the News’ and came across this statement:

‘You see, the average person completely glosses over most ads on internet sites without even focusing on them’

I disagree, and I’ll tell you why :-

Over recent months I’ve been helping a family friend replace his company’s website with an ecommerce website selling recliner furniture straight from the page.

The one thing I’ve noticed while doing this site for them is the lack of significance of their Google Pagerank - their page doesn’t show up in the first 20 pages of google results for the term ‘recliner’ - even with a search limited to UK sites only.

The one thing that’s made their website a success is their GoogleAds campaign, and other advertising media.

So it just goes to show - Google Pagerank isn’t everything - I have proof!