Google+ hypergrowth – Can it sustain it?
{lang: ‘en-GB’} There was an interesting infographic that came out last week relating to the growth rate of Google+. Despite the fact it hasn’t even been live for a month yet, user figures put uptake of Google+ at around 18 Million users and rising. Startling figures particularly when one Whilst overall these user figures pail [...]
Does Twitter have an impact on indexing speed
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Indexing test In the week following the Christmas break, we were talking in the office about whether Twitter would have an impact on indexing speed. It seemed pretty obvious to us that although Twitter links are nofollow that Google must use the data in some way when indexing webpages – after all, if [...]
3rd party promoted tweets appearing in Google search results
{lang: ‘en-GB’} In a first ever by Google, promoted ads from a third party have now started to appear in the Google search results. The ads in question, from social network Twitter for which Google paid $15 million for its data last year are only limited to the Real-time search results, however this still represents [...]
Vodafone expose the new age of brand relations
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Today through up a great example of the new issues facing public relations organisations in the 21st century. A random tweet from the official Vodafone UK account through up this gem Whilst many organisations are used to dealing with the dillemas of offline media but there are more and more examples of organisations [...]
10 UK Search Marketing people you should be following 2010
{lang: ‘en-GB’} About this time last year, I did a post on 10 search marketing people you should be following on Twitter, which was very well received. Twitter is now a year older – and significantly more popular – and I thought it would be an interesting post to revisit that initial post and include [...]
Succeeding in social media – 5 golden rules
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Social Media is hot, very hot and has been for a while. Many organisations are engaged with it, via a variety of sources whether that be Twitter, Facebook, Bebo or merely blogger relations – both large and small organisations alike. There have been some great successes in that time – in particular the [...]
New job? One with a difference from 123-reg
{lang: ‘en-GB’} Every now and then you come across a parked domain page that makes you stop and chuckle, and today is just one of those days – thanks to my colleague at MediaVest , David Lindop. A case of someone having a laugh – or freak occurance? You decide….
Skittles pulls Twitter integration – Twitter down Facebook up
{lang: ‘en-GB’} In one of the bravest social media campaigns in recent times, Skittles turned over the shop space to the general public. Not their real shop space but their virtual one – and integrated their homepage with Twitter. This sent the blogospere and microblogging sites alight with buzz regarding the campaign, not least Twitter. [...]
Power of Twitter,WOM and Blogging
{lang: ‘en-GB’} I did a post a while back on 10 UK Search Marketers you should be following, and given its been over a month since that post was written, I thought it would be interesting to see the effects of new followers in terms of some of those people included within the piece (as [...]
Google.JP penalised – True penalty or PR masterstroke
{lang: ‘en-GB’} For many of those in the industry the story of late has been that of Googles recent ‘pay-per-post’ campaign out in Japan, to promote Google in the Japanese marketplace. Unlike in much of the Western World, Google is not numero uno in Japan, instead that recognition goes to arch enemy Yahoo. However in [...]
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