We spend so much time of our working lives talking about the power of the team, team-building, leadership, empowerment, conceptualization, group dynamics and group performance that we forget, in all the psychobabble buzzwords and workshops just what a team does.
Just twelve months ago it would have been inconceivable to talk about search engine marketing (SEM) and think it would be possible to do so without talking only about Google. Sure you might have been able to discuss Blekko and DuckDuckGo keeping a straight face, but the truth is that their market share in search is so low that they do not even feature on the BING horizon.
It appears that Google has now given an official name to the webspam update that was supposed to be a Panda iteration and it is … Penguin! Going by the nomenclature Google uses the more innocuous it sounds the worse it is (a kind of reverse psychology)
Christian Heilmann of Smashing magazine recently wrote a very detailed article on the constant expansion of Geo Location and its effects on localization for website and application developers. His piece is original, full of insights and just...
14-04-2011 Hits:618 WEB View
SEO right now is where computers used to be towards the late 80s in the last century. They were noticeable by their presence and everyone had to train up on them. Computers then became invisible, embedded everywhere and part of...
07-09-2011 Hits:1413 Web Talk
With Google posting over $9 billion in the first Quarter, CEO Larry Page made the announcement on Google+ and gave some metrics regarding the reach of Google+ and the uptake on the Google +1 button. These are important because they,...
17-07-2011 Hits:986 Google News
Hot on the heels of its recently changed privacy agreement Google has introduced Google Play, its cloud-based entertainment system on the go which uses your Google account details to automatically synch for you all your devices.
08-03-2012 Hits:1439 Google News
When you start running a website there are two things you think about only when the warning sirens go off and these are the quality of your hosting platform and your SEO. The latter is considered almost irrelevant by many...
18-05-2011 Hits:1616 WEB View
Everyone knows that the holiday sales season is make or break and perhaps none more so than in retail. In an unforgiving market and a tough economy casualties are to be expected. Sears Holdings, which owns Sears and K-Mart, both...
01-01-2012 Hits:1748 WEB View
Inevitably both search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) have their very own terminology which sometimes is difficult to get round. Learning the terminology is not a requisite to search engine optimizing your own website but speaking a...
14-04-2011 Hits:824 SEO Tips
Back in April TweetDeck was caught up in a war between Twitter and Ubermedia. Twitter won that one and, as expected, it is now beginning to integrate some of that functionality into its main Twitter interface.
11-08-2011 Hits:888 Social Media News
It’s just ten days since Google+ became a reality (by invitation only still) and in that time it has doubled in numbers (though there is no way to know the initial uptake) and created a wow phenomenon in the blogosphere.
08-07-2011 Hits:995 WEB View
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