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Lady Gaga, like her or not, has achieved an amazing amount of recognition across the globe, both online and offline. One would have to say that Gaga’s presence in social media is key to the ‘Gaga phenomena’. Read the rest of this entry »
When I lived and worked in China, the level of engagement with the Internet constantly surprised me. Of course this was primarily amongst those who lived in the main cities. China’s economy is based upon the four engines of economic power: Read the rest of this entry »
It is an interesting debate. It started when one of the rules of good brand building (to build ownership of language by creating a unique way for brands to describe products, services and solutions) came in to direct conflict with the SEO principle that the opportunity lies within the searchers language. Read the rest of this entry »
Onlive claims to have sorted out the gaming sector and offer us “Powerful Gaming made easy”. The idea behind Onlive is that you never have to purchase another computer console to play the latest games again – music to the ears of every parent in the western world no doubt. Instead you use either an ‘entry level’ PC or MAC; or use the OnLive MicroConsole connected to your TV to play your games. These devices will connect via broadband to the Onlive cloud of gaming servers and the output is sent directly to your screen. Read the rest of this entry »
Firstly, let me point out that I am not a Lost fan, I am still yet to sit through an entire episode and as a result was left bewildered this morning at the fact my colleague felt compelled to wake up at the crack of dawn on 24th May (on a Monday of all days) to watch the globally aired last ever episode at 5am – Then sit on a Lost Forum for another few hours.
After partaking in some universal questioning of his sanity, one thing has become clearer as the day has progressed… Read the rest of this entry »
As Andy posted a while ago in “Has google shot itself in the foot over UK serps?”He mention that the search “Southbank Restaurants” returned not restaurants in London’s south bank as you would imagine, but Melbourne results. This included a map of the Melbourne southbank – even when you did a search in Google UK, UK search only. So what’s the update on this almost a year on: Read the rest of this entry »
There’s been so much talk about the iPad over the past few weeks; mostly by myself – so much so in fact that the guys in the office; my 7 year old son; my wife; the girls in the cafe – are all sick to death of me talking about it!
For almost ten years most people in business in the major cities in the UK, US, Japan and Western Europe have enjoyed speedy broadband connection with the capacity to share and view large amounts of data. Businesses have prospered, old industries have diversified and whole new sectors (like SEO) have appeared.
However that isn’t the case for the majority of the World’s population. Vast sections of the planet don’t have access to the internet.
But things are changing, and when the large populations of China, India, Russia and Brazil enjoy a higher penetration of internet usage a new world order could be upon us. Read the rest of this entry »
Today the British public will vote in their masses in the 2010 General Election, but who is winning the key battles online? Conservatives, Labour and The Liberal Democrats go head to head (to head?) in what could be one of the closest elections of all time. With search evolving dramatically since the last election in 2005, voters can now view breaking news stories through real time search – whilst keeping upto date with trends using Social Media platforms such as Twitter. The following blog post aims to identify the parties that are taking the online battle seriously and the news websites that are ‘winning those seats’.
Given the detrimental effect duplicate content can have on search engine rankings, it is surprising how common canonicalization issues are, even on major websites. Fortunately, however, many of these problems can be easily solved by appropriate use of redirects to enforce a single URL for each piece of unique content. In this article, we look at three common canonicalization issues and how they can be fixed using .htaccess and 301 redirects. Read the rest of this entry »
British Sportsmen and women spend a lot of their life training and performing in competitions but a lot of them seem to find the time and inclination to tell us what they are up to on Twitter. Some of our British sports stars use the micro social network to talk to their fans, their teammates, their competitors or even use it as a device to get a new job from it (see Darren Bent). We all know about the American sport stars who use Twitter such so here is a list of the Top 10 British Sporting celebrities and sportsmen to follow on Twitter: Read the rest of this entry »
Having been blessed by scorching sunshine over the past week in Lanzarote, I returned home last night to find that Matt Cutts had delivered yet another Google Webmaster entry that discusses the state of Google’s UK SERPs. Back in June 2009 there was a major shake up in the Google UK that saw the inclusion of non relevant foreign websites that were ranking ahead of UK specific website. The timing of the video could not have been any better, considering only last week I noticed a number of strange results in the Movies sector..
Online PR is an ideal and sometimes essential way of getting company information on to the internet and achieve links back to the company’s websites or assets for the benefit of SEO. However it is harder than it looks. You need good content and a good list of places where it can go. It is better to throw resource and intelligence at it than a few quid and hope for the world.
This article aims to breakdown the different types of online PR.
It is very easy to become neurotic over what is being said in social media forums about your brand. Relax.
The whole point of social media is to understand what the customer is saying about brands and life in general. Try to stifle the dialogue and your brand will be the lesser for it.
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As the election draws nearer I thought it would be nice to see who is being searched the most in Google – and which political leader and political party is earning the most searches on the internet as the election campaign goes on. Searches obviously don’t mean votes (thank goodness, see first chart), but it shows the impression a person has had on the public – negatively and positively. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the past four years we as a junk food loving nation have turned to the Internet even more to order one of our favourite foods – the beloved Pizza. Using Google Insights data its is clear to see that we’re happy turning our backs on health nuts Jamie Oliver and Gillian McKeefe by searching even more over time for deliveries straight to our door (all Pizza related searches):
Google insights data for Pizza keyword terms
We all know Google is a behemoth of a company, but how much does the search engine Google earn, what is its revenue, how many people search on Google every day, how many people search on google every year and some history about Google. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Facebook Secure a Social Media Monopoly?
News of Facebook being awarded the patent for news feed technology earlier this week is understandably causing much speculation regarding its possible implications for other social networking giants such as Twitter, Myspace and the brand new Google Buzz. Read the rest of this entry »
We all use the internet everyday and it is now a major part of most of our lives. But how many blogs are there out there? Who invented the internet? Who invented the worldwide web? How many registered website are there? How many images are uploaded to FlickR everyday? …And more.
Back in May 2009 Bing’s Webmaster Spokesman told us that:
“We are busy adding upgraded and updated technologies to provide better search results. That’s good news for you!” Read the rest of this entry »
