Every year time.com, the Time Magazine website, releases a list of the top 50 best websites and this year there are some suprises, at least in my opinion.
Time’s criteria to choose these sites is quite simple, they pick websites that help users improve their internet experience like yelp.com and its UK version yelp.co.uk - Yelp [...]

Twitter’s home page has been redesigned; the main focus of this overhaul was to demonstrate the power of Twitter as a discovery where users can find what is happening in real time through search and trends.
With this in mind Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone believes it will lead new users to more compelling questions like “How [...]

Microsoft is preparing another attack against Google and according to AdAge it will be one of epic proportions as the software giant is lining up between $80 million to $100 million to invest in a marketing campaign for Bing.
What is Bing?
Bing is a new search engine that has been developed by Microsoft; with it Microsoft [...]

The car brand has decided to focus their marketing budget on natural search and social media marketing to reinforce its ‘Life is better lived together’ brand positioning.
Last year Volvo spent £19.75m on advertising, excluding paid search and internet accounted for just 3% of this, or £695,500.
Volvo UK’s head of marketing communications, Anita Fox said that [...]

The world’s economy is going through one of its worst crisis in history, with many experts predicting a global economical recession, countries approving multi-billion dollars bailout programs to help their economies to survive and companies having to cut down their costs.
One of the first things on CEOs and Managing Directors minds is to reduce spending; [...]

There is no doubt that Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was a marketing genius, one only needs to look at the recent surge of Obama inspired marketing to appreciate this. But what made this campaign so phenomenally successful?
The campaign team used traditional marketing methods such as the radio, television and direct marketing, effective because they understood [...]

According to Nielson Online, 64.1% of searches were performed using Google in November 2008,  16.1% using Yahoo!, 9.1% using MSN and 2.3% using Ask.com.
J.P. Morgan recently conducted research to see what factors (if any) would encourage a switch to an alternative search engine. Interestingly, 45% of respondents said that if better search results were achieved with an alternative search engine they would [...]

Microsoft has revealed details of its new browsing algorithm, developed by a collaborative work between Microsoft researchers and various Asian Universities.
The new browsing algorithm is called BrowseRank and it is meant to compete against Google’s controversial PageRank.
BrowseRank calculates how often and how long users visit the site to determine the rankings; Microsoft believes that will [...]

Digg is one of the most popular social networking sites, with millions of users from around the globe sharing the content found on the internet with the Digg community.
There are no editors at Digg, it is the users who decide how good the content is by voting or let’s say “digging” others peoples’ content found [...]

“How can email marketing help my business?” - This is one most common question we are asked.
At first glance this may seem pretty obvious (it’s advertising, with all the benefits to your business that this implies), but there is a serious point behind it.
In most cases what people are really asking is something like: “Direct [...]

Online marketing, also known as Internet Marketing, Internet Advertising or eMarketing, is the marketing of products or services via a website using the Internet. Online marketing ties together creative and technical aspects of website promotion which includes website design, website development, search engine optimisation, e-mail marketing, advertising and sales.
Online marketing does not simply entail building [...]