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Did you know that 168 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 26 billion videos online during September 2009? That’s an average of 154 videos per viewer.
With these stats in mind, we decided that it was time to find out more about how online videos can be used by small business owners to promote their business. So we enlisted the…
The September search share stats are out and it’s no surprise to see that Yahoo! is the biggest loser yet again.
According to statistics released by Compete, Yahoo’s search share continues to take a steady dive. It lost another 1% market share last month and has now lost a total of 5% since September 2008.
It’s a…
Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, FriendFeed & Flickr are all pretty common names in the social networking world, but now social and search are about to combine thanks to Google.
At the Web 2.0 expo last week, Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer surprised everyone with the announcement that Social Search is coming via Google Labs.
This new search feature will allow…
Although it’s all very new, there has been a lot of talk lately about real-time search and how it will impact your search results. Now real-time search has become even more of a reality with the announcement of a partnership between Twitter and Google which gives Google access to Twitters full feed of public tweets.
From the official Google post:…
Link building is one of the most effective ways of building your search engine ranking. But what happens when incoming links to your site are low-quality?
Most site owners are aiming to build a good reputation for their site and poor quality incoming links can be perceived as hampering these efforts.
But the good news is that there is no…
When you think of Google, you no doubt think of world domination (in terms of search engines!), but this actually isn’t the case. Google isn’t the number one search engine in one of the world’s biggest country, China.
China’s most popular search engine, Baidu, accounts for around three out of four online searches and now it has just dealt Google…
These days one of the first things people do when they want to know more about you or your business is to do a search for your name on Google – I’m sure you have all heard of the expression “I just Googled you”.
Whether there are some embarrassing photos, a bad review of your business or poorly written blog…
There has been plenty of news lately in the online world about real-time search.
Twitter is the big winner at the moment, but Facebook is desperately trying to get in on the action also. Now the latest news is that Google and Microsoft have thrown their hats into the ring and simply want to buy Twitters data.
So with all…
This month, we introduce you to one of our paid search specialists, Sam Zhao.
Sam is kept busy each day ensuring that our clients continue get the best results from their Google advertising campaigns.
Also, any questions we may have about our new iphones automatically go to Sam, as he is our resident iphone guru.
Describe yourself in 3 words/phrases:
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Good news for webmasters who have non-English speaking visitors to their website. Google have recently launched a new gadget which allows website owners to make the content on their site available in 51 languages.
The gadget is powered by Google Translate and here is the official word from Google in their announcement post:
Now, when people visit
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