There’s a good article posted by Nine by Blue’s Vanessa Fox (who, when working for google was responsible for google’s webmaster central), about why restaurants should care about local search.
Amongst the key points that it makes is that your business needs to take on a holistic approach to its online presence, not concentrating solely on [...]
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Don’t forget about local search
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Tags: advantages of using twitter, clever use of social networking, establishing an online presence, google, local search, local search optimisation, pr on social networks, the new google?
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But does your brand ‘need’ to be on facebook?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010There’s a good article in Mashable magazine entitled ‘Why Your Brand Needs to be on Facebook Now’, which goes back over the fact that Facebook hit a milestone recently when it became a more visited site than google in the US – that’s their main reasoning behind why your brand needs to be up there: [...]
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Twitter trashes skewed Daily Mail poll
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Right-leaning British newspaper The Daily Mail found itself with egg on its face on Friday as one of its infamously non-neutral polls was targeted by psychologists on twitter.
The poll which had the decidedly non-neutral question ’should the nhs let gipsies to jump the queue?’, raised the ire of a number of psychologists who as part [...]
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Google Wave – exciting possibilities
Thursday, June 18th, 2009So the big news in recent weeks has been the presentation of Google Wave, due to be fully launched later in the year. You can check out the presentation here.
As with virtually any new search/social media release, there’s immediate talk of it being a *killer – with twitter being the * in this particular case. [...]
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5 Reasons Writers Need Their Own Websites
Friday, May 29th, 2009The trouble with being dedicated to your job is that you’re like a horse with blinders on – you don’t seem to enjoy the benefits that peripheral vision can bring. Yes, you are focused on your work and enjoy it so much that you have time for little else when you’re busy, but there is [...]
Tags: authors online, promoting my novel online, reasons for a website, why a writer needs a website, writers online
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Learning a lesson from Facebook’s localisation into Hindi
Saturday, May 9th, 2009Localisation is the over-technical term used by software developers to describe the translation of their programs into other languages. It serves a purpose, though, to stress that translation is far more than simply substituting words from one language to another. For a program to work in different markets different cultures need to be taken into [...]
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