Statistics released yesterday by Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, suggest Google’s new social networking site, Google+, looks set to top 20 million users in the next 48 hours, less than a month after its launch. “Last week, we saw two days where more than two million signed up in a single day,” Allen posted on …
Category Archive: Google
Jul
07
SEO & Social Media project for larger companies
It’s reported that nearly half of consumers online, admit that both search and social media influence their purchases. Social Media and SEO are hot topics for most online marketing agencies, today with more and more people and agencies jumping on the bandwagon, claiming the status of “guru”. However this can be absolutely devastating for larger …
Jun
27
Google Buys PostRank to Boost Social Analytics
You can see what is coming….sentiment trackers are largely expensive and disappointing in our opinion. They do not pick up every online brand mention and are not great at analysing the complex language issues of saying whether the articles have a positive or negative sentiment. Computers aren’t good at understanding sarcasm and the complexities of …
Jun
27
Implementing the Google +1 Button
Recently Google conducted a webinar, showing how to implement the Google +1 button into your own websites, allowing users to +1 your own content, below you can find a link to the Google Webmaster Blog +1 section. Google +1 Button Implementation
Apr
15
Linkbuilding strategically after the Farmer/Panda update
As some of you maybe aware the Google Farmer / Panda update has kicked in over in the states and has just been rolled out across all English language engines. Yes, there are some winners and losers, but all in all the majority of our clients have remained unharmed. BUT….this has led to more questions …
Apr
06
3 Tips for Linkbuilding in 2011
Link building in 2011 1. Don’t get hung up on the link !!! It’s all to easy to just go after a link, so much so that you only ever look at how many links you have or how many your competitors website has. Instead focus your time & energy on the reasons people want to …
Apr
05
Year in review – Looking back, over my shoulder….
Yes i know this is by no means an earth shattering post, but after reading many blogs, a hell of alot of trial and error, attrending various conferences, these are some small takeaways from the last 12 months or so that we wanted to jot down. Here is what I think we can all learn …
Mar
31
Google +1 Recommendations Button in Search Results
Rolling out across English Google over the next few days is a new “+1″ feature that allows you to endorse URLs. If you’re not yet seeing it in your search results enable it in Google experimental. Once enabled you see a little grey +1 next to all search results – including adwords listings…. So what …
Mar
22
Google Farmer / Panda Update in UK
Many Webmasters and site owners are suffering with the Google Farmer / Panda update in the U.S. But as we know, soon, the Farmer/Panda update will be rolling out more widely to the U.K. But how soon? Well, it was expected to have happened already. We are surprised if it did not happen this week. But …
Mar
22
Beat that Quote Un-penalised by Google
Google acquired BeatTheQuote.com on March 7th, then the day after, Google penalized BeatThatQuote for violating the Google Webmaster guidelines. BUT….BeatThatQuote has apparently been un-penalized by Google just two weeks after first being penalized. A search for their name in Google once again returns them at the top result: Is two weeks long enough? Do you …



