Posts Tagged ‘establishing an online presence’
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
There has always been plenty of debate about the importance of choosing an appropriate tld (top level domain, like .com, .ie, .co.uk etc), and choosing a hosting service based in your main target market.
Until recently the common wisdom was that, if you wanted to rank well in a specific local search engine index, like for [...]
Tags: anti-spam, do's and don'ts for s.e.o, establishing an online presence, google, grey areas in s.e.o, local search optimisation, the new google?
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
There’s an interesting story brewing on Twitter at the moment, as best-selling author Alice Hoffman has taken to task reviewer Roberta Silman for her review of The Story Sisters, Hoffman’s new novel.
There are countless blogs and twitter profiles talking about Hoffman’s reaction – she tweeted up to 27 times about the review, going so far [...]
Tags: clever use of social networking, do's and don't's for twitter, establishing an online presence, pr on social networks
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Google has just published an interesting research paper which suggests that they have made big advances in the image-recognition software field. At a computer vision and pattern recognition conference in Miami recently, Jay Yagnik, google’s head of vision research claimed that their new system has had an 80% accuracy in identifying untagged images of up [...]
Tags: computer vision, do's and don'ts for s.e.o, establishing an online presence, optimising images for search engines, the new google?
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Right-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 [...]
Tags: building a band website, clever use of social networking, company blogs, developing websites for bands, do's and don't's for twitter, establishing an online presence, pr on social networks
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Google are rolling out various search options that, in theory, will change the way you search for things. It’s unclear how widely available they are at the moment, but plenty of people are seeing a small ’show options’ link at the top of their search results, which opens up a new page of tools to [...]
Tags: designing your site, establishing an online presence, google search options, google's wonder wheel, the new google?
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
There’s an interesting article in today’s Web Pro News, where Jason Lee Millar suggests that Google are being forced by increasingly embarassing high-ranking spam results to change their ranking algorithm.
The crux of the article is that the web, and the way it’s linked up, is changing rapidly. Things are speeding up, and it seems that [...]
Tags: anti-spam, establishing an online presence, googlerank, link velocity, pr on social networks, the live web
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