Archive for January, 2010

Warning – your traffic may drop from Google

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Are you offering facts and figures which people regularly search on? Does it drive traffic to your site?
Let’s give an example: what is the height of St Paul’s cathedral?

As you can see, the information the searcher requires is (partially) in the search engine listing. However, the likelihood is that this is enough to pique the [...]

Google adds more rich snippets

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Have you ever wondered why it is important to keep your website up to date?
Wonder no more!
Google has just added a new feature to search engine listings – event dates.
Hosting a gig? Running a series of seminars? Then, make sure the event dates are listed on your site.
Not sure how to do it? Then check [...]

Help for Haiti banners for your website

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

If you want to help publicise the ongoing aid efforts in Haiti, use the following banners for the UK Disaster Emergencies Committee donation fund.

Does Google threaten your business?

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Whilst Google has spent the last decade taking potshots at all and sundry – from Amazon to Microsoft, from authors and publishers to video content producers, from telecoms to the oil industry – it is perhaps time to wonder whether your business might be next?
The Big Money has an interesting slant on Google in the [...]

Virtual Goods to make billions

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

The BBC is reporting that virtual goods will make billions over the next few years on sites such as Facebook and gaming sites.
This however is only a new phenomenon to the West and to the BBC! Sites such as Cyworld in Korea have been in profit for several years due to theĀ  introduction of a [...]