Monthly Archives: October 2010
Google – A Local Search Engine for Local People
It’s been a busy time for our favourite search engineers over in Mountain View. With all the furore around Google Instant (you know that thing that predicts what you’re looking for, looks to be almost as big a hit as Buzz and Wave so far, now where is that off button?) The big G have now moved their attention to Google Places, which they have been playing (I mean, running extensive testing and user analysis) on for quite a while.
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5 Things SEOs Can Learn From Star Wars
Like many people of a certain age, I’m a massive Star Wars fan. That much of a fan in fact that I even tend to live my life according to the valuable lessons learned from the original Star Wars trilogy. Star Wars teaches us things which can be applied in every area of life and the same principals can be applied to your SEO work. To show you what I mean I have compiled 5 lessons that SEOs can learn from Star Wars.
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Greater Manchester Police Show The World How To Use Twitter
Yesterday the Greater Manchester Police gave a brilliant example of how to use Twitter to make a point.
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The Future Of Search: ‘Likes’ To be More Valuable Than Links?
In an interesting joint announcement yesterday with Facebook, Bing have announced that they are to start showing users the products, businesses and films that their Facebook friends like in the search results.
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Businesses use Social Media to boost Christmas sales
It seems this year social media is going to be playing a large part in many businesses marketing strategies in the lead up to Christmas. As more and more companies are starting to embrace social media, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts will be used more than ever to help boost Christmas sales. With the average shopper having less than usual to spend this Christmas it seems there may be a retail social media battle for sales!
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