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Top signs that you are addicted to search engine optimisation!

1. You check your rankings every day just to see if they ‘might have changed’

2. You hold your breath when your ranking analysis program says ‘updating’

3. You open up 200+ SEO blogs per day and never get to read half of them because you keep clicking links to ‘other blogs on this topic’

4. You have 40 social media profiles

5. You see the sites ranking above you as your “Arch Nemisis”!

6. You check to see if someone has written a wiki entry about you or your business.

7. You analyse every site you visit for linking potential

8. You check the PageRank of every webpage you visit

9. FLASH, FRAMES & JAVASCRIPT = EVIL!

10. You dream about the day you are ranked number 1 for ALL your key phrases

Google have created a lot of fantastic tools for various purposes but as a friend of mine recently discovered there are also negatives.

My friend had a client ring them recently up and exclaim “you’ve broken our website!”, confused my friend asked exactly how their website was broken… “all my form fields are yellow, why did you do that, please change them back to white!”, after explaining to the client that no updates had in fact been made to the site recently, my associate had a look to see what was going on, all looked fine on his machine so asked a few mates to check it out, all looked good on theirs too!

Eventually he went to the client’s office to look at the site on their machine - when he got there he found that they had installed Google toolbar (which by default change your forms to yellow!) Problem solved, however do you think he sent Google the bill for the hour of work he spent trying to solve this problem??

If you know of any “Helpful tools” that also cause headaches, please share them!