Archive for May, 2009:
filed in Google, SEO on May.19, 2009
I’m a bit of a geek and I like to look at the search results for a variety of keywords and see who is ranking where. I’m always interested to see why they’re ranking where they are so I often have a poke about to see what’s working for them and what isn’t. Today, I [...]
Tags: black, design, Google, hat, hidden, SEO, text, web
filed in Marketing, Social Networking on May.15, 2009
Strange title isn’t it? But it’s about a wonderful story involving a London bakery using Twitter to inform people when they’re just baked a fresh batch of bread. You can get the whole story here: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iIgCLG0fRo40rP-hNwT54BwCTIBA It’s a fantastic example of a business looking at how it can take new technology and use it to [...]
Tags: bakers, innovative, media, social, twitter
filed in Marketing, Website Design on May.12, 2009
Recently, I was asked if adding a ‘presenter’ would be a good thing to have on a website. For those of you that don’t know what a presenter is (and I must admit, I didn’t know that that’s what they were called!), here’s a link to the company selling them:Â www.mywebpresenters.com. My personal opinion was that [...]
Tags: conversions, presenters, usability, web design
filed in Misc, Social Networking on May.11, 2009
CNET reports about two major upcoming changes to Twitter search. Twitter search has a massive amount of potential but has been seriously overlooked so far. That’s about to change. Firstly Twitter is about to start crawling and indexing the links that are tweeted to provide a far broader view of what’s popular at the moment. [...]
Tags: optimisation, search, spam, twazzup, twitter