The Google Places page has undergone a bit of a revamp, according to an announcement made last week by Google on their LatLong Blog, the official Google voice for all things map related, including local search results. The updated Places pages now highlight the reviews much more. In addition, reviews and ratings can only be […]
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In a post on the Twitter Blog yesterday, the popular micro-blogging service announced that they will be serving ads, or “promoted tweets” in the timelines of users who follow the company that’s advertising. Twitter has been looking for a way to be profitable for years now, and nobody is quite sure if they’ve managed it […]
Last week, Google publicised some new changes to Google Places, their local search / listing pages which allow businesses to be displayed on the Google maps, and in local search results. The changes are fairly minor on the surface, but their implications are interesting. The most noticeable change is the sudden emphasis on reviews. Google […]
In an early morning (our time) post in Google+, Matt Cutts has announced that Google has discovered that some users computers appear to be infected by a type of malware (malicious software) that uses their computers to send traffic to Google through a series of proxies. Because Google can detect these unusual patterns in traffic, […]
As the importance of search engine optimisation becomes ever more apparent, there are more and more SEO companies to choose from, and all of them are claiming to be SEO experts. For people who know that they need search engine optimisation, that makes it difficult to choose the best SEO company. And with some companies […]
Having an online business is the new popular trend these days. Business owners have realised the need to have an online over other types of businesses. This is why there are now so many online businesses today. The more businesses there are means that there is more competition. So how can online businesses get to […]
In what has been hailed as the most significant decision since the creation of the “.com” suffix, more than 25 years ago, ICANN, (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) the global body that regulates domain naming conventions among other things, has voted in favour of the implementation of new top level domains. At […]
At the beginning of this month, Google implemented the latest changes to their algorithm. And as a result, many websites have experienced a sudden and dramatic downturn in the number of visitors arriving via Google, because suddenly keyword order matters a lot more. The latest development has caused a lot of discussion in SEO circles, and […]
The average SEO results optimised site has shown that, if 5000 visitors arrive via the search engines, 4000 different keyphrases will have been used to find the site. A wide variety of search terms can be used for different industries. A person looking for an insurance company might search, “life insurance”, “short term insurance”, “cheap […]
Honestly, most web marketing professionals agree that Google SEO offers substantially greater returns than Google PPC. However, the truth of this can be debated depending on the nature of your business as well as your immediate needs. To help with your decision, and to outline the benefits, as well as the drawbacks of both SEO […]
