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Yearly Archives: 2009
Is content really king when it comes to SEO?
In the glorious world of SEO, you will often hear the term ‘content is king’. We are guilty of using this phrase ourselves and find ourselves advising most clients that they need to create more content on their site. Not only will more content increase the number of pages that you have on your site, which will immediately improve the potential for ranking well on the search engines (remember –…
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Google Enhances it’s Search Snippets
Earlier this week, Google announced it’s latest update to it’s search engine results pages, it’s adding helpful links to it’s ‘snippets’. Over the last couple of months, Google has made many changes to it’s search results pages, including improvements to the snippets, and this latest update means that Google will now be providing a selection of different links within some of the search results to allow users to drill down…
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Google becomes hot and trendy
Earlier this week Google launched it’s new search feature in it’s latest attempt at becoming more real-time, and providing it’s users with information about the hottest current events and topics. Twitter has become extremely successful over the years, allowing users to microblog or ‘Tweet’ within seconds about current topics, people and events, which is causing others to turn to Twitter to find the most real time information about these subjects….
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Need better search engine rankings?
The excellent SEOmoz bi-annual search engine ranking factors has been updated and is provoking some interesting debate amongst the online marketing community about what really make a difference in the mystical world of SEO. We are big fans of SEOmoz and have nothing but respect for the organisation and this report is a superb piece of research that makes for very interesting reading for anyone involved with search engine marketing….
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Bing’s slowly gaining on Google’s Market Share
Earlier this week ComScore released it’s monthly qSearch analysis report, conducted on the U.S Search Market throughout August and it shows some interesting results. The report shows that last month there were 13.9 billion core searches performed in the U.S alone, with Google’s share of that figure being 64.9%, Yahoo!’s 19.3% and Microsoft’s 9.3%. When comparing these figures to the previous month, it shows that whilst Yahoo!’s share remains exactly…
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Yahoo! Launches New Web Search
Earlier this week, Yahoo! launched it’s new web search page, after conducting testing that started in August, with a selected number of users and it is now making the changes available to all users across the UK, US, France, Spain, Mexico and India. The new search page has been designed to help users to find what they are searching for more easily and make exploring the web a quicker and…
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Facebook now allows users to publish updates to Twitter via their Facebook Pages
Facebook is now allowing those with Facebook pages, (not individual profile pages) to now simultaneously update their Facebook and Twitter pages simultaneously via Facebook. According to Facebook, they have received many queries about the concept of integrating Facebook and Twitter, as users want their content to be easily distributed to all their followers on both Facebook and Twitter and as quickly as possible, which has lead them to release this…
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Google Gets ‘Caffeine’ Fix
After the recent announcement from Facebook and due to the growing success of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, Google is having to step up it’s game in the search engine market in order to keep up with the competition, so has therefore released a new version of it’s search engine, that has been codenamed ‘Caffeine’. The interface of this new version, of the current market leader, is reported to appear…
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The New Adwords Bid Simulator
Last week, Google announced the launch of it’s new Adwords feature, that they have introduced to increase the transparency of the paid search auction to give advertisers more insight into how their keyword bids are affecting the number of impressions and clicks their ads receive, called the Bid Simulator. This new feature allows users to see how the number of impressions and clicks could be affected if they were to…
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Facebook Rolls Out It’s New And Improved Search Feature
Earlier this week, Facebook announced the roll out of it’s new Search Feature, after successfully testing a new version on a selected group of Facebook users. The new version of the Search feature will allow users to search the previous 30 days of News Feeds for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes that have been posted by people in their friends list and also the pages that they have…
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