The drive towards insane ad targeting took another leap forward a couple of months ago when Facebook quietly announced Facebook Custom Audiences. If you’re not salivating after reading this, it’s time for me to pack it in. Facebook Custom Audiences allow you to upload your customers’ data into Facebook which is then anonymously matched to [...]
Posted on October 17, 2012, 2:01 am, by Chris, under
Analytics,
Design,
Google,
Link Building,
Schemas,
SEO,
Social Media Marketing,
structured mark-ups,
Website.
Social sharing is becoming an increasingly important factor in helping your ranking positions. Search Engines have been factoring social ‘signals’ into their algorithms for quite sometime to help determine ranking, and reward relevant and popular content. I know that many websites (like Pinterest for example) use ‘Rel=Nofollow’ tags to stop ‘link authority’ passing back to [...]
If you have a small, medium or large business which has a physical location (or locations) you’ve probably taken advantage of Google’s free ‘Places’ feature. It enables you to claim your business, pop up some pictures, add a bit of a description around your business and even upload some videos as well. It’s felt by [...]
Posted on June 29, 2011, 1:09 am, by Chris, under
behavioural advertising,
Facebook,
Google,
Google Plus,
Google remarketing,
local marketing,
Mobile,
Retargeting,
SEM,
Social Media Marketing.
With the rise of Facebook and its advertising luring more online ad spend away from Google’s cash cow – AdWords, Google’s come storming back with Google + (Google Plus) Project. All this comes after the ‘failure’ of Google Buzz; its first attempt at creating its own social networking platform. My thoughts after an initial look [...]
The bigger Facebook gets the more confusing it’s becoming for people who use it. There are two main areas which need to be urgently addressed by Facebook; in particular (Facebook Check In’s) which in many cases is getting out of control, and Fan Page confusion regarding fake Facebook Pages. Let’s first look at the disaster [...]
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 [...]
Patrick Stafford wrote a great piece yesterday in SmartCompany on the rise and rise of location based marketing. It’s a really important read for folks who have local businesses. Another guy who really knows his stuff about location based marketing and Facebook is Ed Dale. Dale posted a really interesting ‘find’ yesterday on his Facebook [...]
I stumbled across a really neat idea this week from the General Pants Facebook Fan Page wall…. The question they asked was simple. When you’re looking at product images of their products, which do you prefer? A model wearing the outfit or a mannequin? It jumped out at me because I’m pretty passionate about ecommerce [...]
Facebook Ads provide incredible reach to a targeted audience which can’t be matched by any other online (or offline) advertising system. Unless you’ve been living quietly in a cupboard, you’ll already know there a lot of people using Facebook and they spend a lot of time there. Here are some very recent stats from Facebook [...]
Author: Chris Thomas on 9th November 2009 Traffic. It’s the blood that courses through your website’s veins. But there’s good traffic and there’s bad traffic, and anyone can get a bucket load of crappy traffic. All you have to do is wander over to Google and type in “buy traffic” then pick a site and [...]