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Prescott Uses Social Media & Blogging to Promote Climate Change

John Prescott, who is an unlikely fan of blogging, recently raised his profile through the use of twitter using it to post news about the Tories and NHS.
The politician is also planning to use social networking sites to try to get people involved in a global deal on climate change.
In his new role, Prescott is [...]

bing takes the first step towards real time search

Bing continues to innovate the way we search and it is the first search engine to start showing Twitter’s results from some “prominent and prolific” Twitters without the need of a add-on or a script, hence the “Twitter Search Results on Google” script and the “Twitter Search Results on Bing Firefox add-on”.
Since the 1st of [...]

google webmasters guidelines don’t apply to google itself

“Your site’s reputation can be affected by who you link to”
If you are an SEO you know exactly where the above quote comes from, for those of you not familiar with it, that is a quote from Google Webmasters Guidelines, basically is saying that if link to bad neighbourhood sites, you could be penalised.
But apparently [...]

tofollow or nofollow: that is the question

Every time Google makes an official announcement about an SEO technique, the effects on the SEO community can be compared to an earthquake or a tsunami and this time wasn’t different, since Matt Cutts announced that “PageRank Sculpting” could no longer be performed using the nofollow tag, site owners and SEOs have gone mad.
What is [...]

keyword research: the key to success

Keyword research is the first, and in my opinion the most important task in the search engine optimisation process, this is why you need as much data as possible on each keyword you are planning in implementing on your site.
First thing you need to know about a keyword is its search volume, the higher the [...]

“fear grips google” says the ny post

Microsoft’s new search engine ‘Bing’ has been live for almost two weeks now and already statistics show an increase in its market share by 2% jumping from the 9% previously registered by the Live.com to 11%.
You would think that if you were the owner of a company that has over 60% of market share that [...]

Google Wave - Google’s New Wave Maker

Since its announcement Google Wave has dominated the pages of tech blogs and news sites all over the world, this is set to be Google’s biggest product launch in years.

Google Wave is a real time communication platform that combines aspects of email, wikis, web chat, social networking, project management and file sharing all in one [...]

google responds to threats with two new products

Over the past few weeks Google has been under attack; no! wait before you panic, these attacks are neither from hackers nor spammers, even though that happens on a daily basis, for that we have Matt Cutts and his team. When I say attacks, I’m referring to other companies trying to reduce Google’s search market [...]

Bing’s Beta Version is Live

Bing - Microsoft’s new and improved search engine named went live two days ago, well at least the beta version of it. The official launch is due to coincide with Microsoft’s Dr. Qi Lu presentation tomorrow at Search Engine Land’s Search Marketing Convention SMX Advanced in Seattle.
As Live.com is still live and users can currently [...]

bing - microsoft’s new search engine

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 [...]

get the most out of your website with seo

Having an online business that is not well positioned in the search engines is like owning an ice-cream parlour in the middle of the desert, nobody will find you. In order improve your business web visibility you should consider hiring a SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) company.
There are hundreds maybe thousands of SEO companies out there, [...]

should google start to worry?

Google, as we all know, is by far the most popular Search Engine in the world, and over the years its market share keeps growing and growing, Yahoo and MSN together represent one third of Google’s search market share.
Since its launch, Google has built a huge multi functional empire in the search industry, just like [...]