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SES London 2013 – Mid Point Conclusion

SES London 2013 – Mid Point Conclusion

SES London Conference I am very surprised to hear so many SEO companies throwing in the towel after Google's Penguin update in April 2012.  The general feeling amongst the experts is that Google has defeated SEO companies. I don't agree! It is...

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Get With The Facebook Times

To my absolute horror, there are still bloggers, uselessly blogging about how irrelevant social media is and specifically pinpointing Facebook. I'm certain that they are just blogging to attention seek. I can forgive a fool that thought this a few...

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Google’s new offices: poles apart

Getting sites to the top of Google rankings is a serious business - so serious that it's easy to forget that the company also has a fun side. This week, the BBC showed us a video and images of Google's new offices in Zurich. Fancy making an...

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World’s Biggest Coffee Morning – prep underway!

We are in full swing to organizing our coffee morning in support of Macmillan Cancer's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.  Taking place on Friday 24th September, you can now see full details here:  Notting Hill Biz Coffee Morning. We do hope to see...

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How will your website look on a giant screen?

You may currently be preoccupied with thinking about how you're going to optimize your website for the oncoming mobile web explosion. Well, if you want a break from that, we've got news for you - it looks like we're also in line for a massive rise...

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How the news can help you market online

If you sell internationally, it's definitely worth reading the technology section of the daily papers. For example, did you know that many websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, not to mention the all-important Google, are blocked in...

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2 million more customers

Sell online? Your customer base just increased by almost two million. Well, all right, not "just", but, according to The Guardian, Internet users rose by 5%, or 1.9 million, to 38.8 million over the last year to May. This boost in numbers reflects...

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Get ahead with Foursquare

Are Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr starting to look a bit old hat to you? Wishing you could do something a bit newer and groovier with your online presence? Then it could be time to look at Foursquare. If this geo-location craze had thus far passed...

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Facebook, the movie: an update

It was over a year ago that we first heard about Facebook, the movie, and now, at last... a trailer. Not that it, nor the accompanying official website is letting much slip, yet. Those who sit through the trailer will be treated to some corkers of...

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Free guide to social media

Many thanks to the Wall for pointing us towards Eloqua's Social Media Playbook [PDF] - "playbook", we assume, because while a workbook entails effort, everything to do with web 2.0 is, of course, fun fun fun! Eloqua is a big-bucks customer...

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Bring social interaction right onto your site

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...

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Does Twitter rule your life? Not THIS much.

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...

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World’s Biggest Coffee Morning – getting started!

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...

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Google Maps adds property listings

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...

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