We all know the benefits of having a presence on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and so on, but the fact is that any interaction you have on there may not be seen by visitors to your main website. We've been looking at a neat piece of code that you can...
Fancy fifteen minutes of power? Then you may want to send David Perez a tweet this week. This hapless Advertising Recruiter is promising to do everything - provided it's legal - that his Twitter followers suggest, for a week. What's more, he'll be...
You may have heard of Macmillan Cancer Support's magnificent annual fundraising campaign called the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. People are encouraged to hold coffee mornings at work, school, in their own homes, etc., to raise money for the...
From today, Google offers users the option to see properties for sale and rent as an overlay to UK maps. This free service is clearly of great benefit to the many small businesses who operate as estate agents or letting companies: Google says "We...
These are wise words indeed from Mahatma Gandhi: A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in...
We are joining in with the World's Biggest Coffee Morning in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support and would like to invite you, your work colleagues, your friends, and family to come and join in too! The event is open to the public and will be taking...
It's a known fact that people read quickly online - if you can call it reading, that is. They scan pages at a much faster rate than they would read a book or a newspaper. It's an odd phenomenon, and one which we can only assume has something to do...
Have you ever needed to convince stakeholders of the value of your website? Possibly you're not even 100% convinced yourself. In either case, Google's Internet Stats page is the place to visit for nifty soundbites. Next time you have to present to...
It's a small change - but Google's making a big thing out of it. You may have noticed, last time you visited Google, that the size of the search box has increased. There again, you may not have noticed: it's quite a subliminal tweak, and, as search...
If you're in the selling business, Google's Domestic Trends reports should interest you. They are based on the idea that search data can inform us about the purchasing intentions of the populace. If people are searching for terms like 'jewelry',...
On 1st January 1999, the Euro was introduced. In August of the same year, Blogger, the online blogging platform subsequently bought by Google, was launched. It heralded the arrival of mainstream, accessible web publishing for all. We're pretty much...
Regular readers of this blog will know how we feel about social media for business: we're in favor! We were interested, therefore, to follow two news stories this week, one reporting that Portsmouth City Council is banning their workers from...
The popularity and simplicity of the iPod Touch and iPhone have done what many have tried and failed to do: turned the UK on to the possibilities of the mobile web. But what might it mean for you, your business, and for the Search industry, as more...
Anchor text: not everyone knows what it is, and yet it's vitally important to the business of SEO. It's quite possible you've written some yourself, without ever realizing you were doing so, for it is one of the fundamentals of the web. Like most...
Firefox recently announced that their internet browser has been downloaded a mind-boggling billion times. Now, we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking that this means Firefox has a billion users: typically, a single user would have downloaded...
If you are one of those who habitually use Facebook in your day-to-day social life, then you probably know instinctively how best to use it in the marketing of your business. Keeping abreast a lively social circle does not require wildly different...