You might recall a couple of months ago I was pondering the future of SEO, especially in light of the incredible popularity of Apps and the devices that support them. There have been over 9.9 Billion Apple App downloads – up from 7 billion that was reported in January and that doesn’t count at least [...]
Online Reputation Management and Brand Building – Build Thy Brand Guest article by Dejan SEO Online branding and reputation management are important factors for online success. Web is a super fast highway that keeps getting faster and faster, the easiest and fastest way to get the word out on a new product, service or anything [...]
With the NBN (National Broadband Network) rolling out we’re all (eventually) going to enjoy much faster internet connection speeds in the not too distant future. Both download and upload speeds will be pretty fast. That’s the theory anyway. With faster internet speeds I think the uptake of ‘cloud’ based services will be exponential. There’s been [...]
I’m disappointed with myself for not picking the launch of Google’s new Google +1 (pronounced, ‘Plus One’) button. It is such an obvious thing for Google to do and looking at it now, I’m wondering what took them so long? As reported yesterday, Google’s +1 buttons which will appear next to search results and Google [...]
I’ve written quite a bit about coupon codes and affiliate marketing over the years and I quickly wanted to share an experience with the website www.Retailmenot.com. About a year ago I decided to try out a coupon-code offer for my (secret ‘other life’) personal online business with Retail Me Not, mainly because in my experience [...]
Is it possible ? One of the newish features around Google search is suggested search. I’m sure you’ve seen or used it, it can be quite handy. I blogged about using it for keyword research and profit last year. Anyway, here’s an example: Of course, this begs the question, “how is Google deciding which suggested [...]
You’re probably aware of the recent black hat JC Penny fiasco. Before I get onto a couple of basic and easy ‘white-hat’ link building tactics, I want to add some thoughts on JC Penny. Google’s head of web spam Matt Cutts, loves these stories – it gives him an excuse to make an example out [...]
I discovered a great resource this week, www.reelseo.com which as its name suggests is a blog all about video for the web. They’ve been calling this year ‘the year of the Smartphone’ since about 2008 when the first iPhone’s came out. It’s telling that people are consuming video content about 25% more on their mobiles [...]
Posted on January 20, 2011, 6:16 am, by AdamM, under
Google,
SEO.
Why I post my business? Google places has an incredibly powerful reach for businesses to generate leads via the internet – take the following for example… ComScore indicates that 43% of internet users are actively searching for local merchants when evaluating whether to make a purchase. Additionally 52% report that they have regularly substituted search [...]
Great website design has never been more important. If you regularly use Google, you’ve probably already noticed that you can preview web pages before you visit them, just by rolling your mouse over the results (or clicking the small magnifying glass next to a search result). This is Google Quickview in action. Here’s an example [...]