It would appear that once again the top search engines are being targeted by the black hats. SonicWall announced yesterday that top SEO terms are bringing up increasingly malicious sites.
Always a good idea to a) check the link you are clicking on and b) keep a close eye on your listings and report any malicious [...]

The majority of companies are aware of the importance of internet or digital marketing, although for many it is a struggle to understand how exactly to capitalise on the budget spend and achieve hard results.
Even so, a recent report from Econsultancy and ExactTarget shows that a large proportion of businesses expect to increase and maintain [...]

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 [...]

If any SEO company even vaguely offers to get your site in a) a top 10 ranking or b) achieve results fast, close your cheque book and run out of the door.
SEO is not a quick and easy process. Let’s define SEO here though, as what we really mean is “internet marketing”, not just optimising [...]

Are you spending time worrying about SEO? Or worse, spending untold money trying to move up the search engine results pages only to find that for no good reason your website has vanished from the top 100 pages?
If you find your days and nights are haunted by keyword research, writing META tags, hunting down keyword [...]

The 10 UK search terms for the 4 weeks since Oct 19th 2009 show that UK searchers still don’t comprehend how a browser works.
The top 10 search terms include Facebook, Bebo, Youtube, Ebay, Argos – all major brands with basic TLDs eg argos.co.uk, facebook.com and so on. What this implies is that users are not [...]

We all know that people like to use the search engines to get answers to questions, but when promoting our sites, creating content and so on, how do we know what questions they might be asking in their search queries?
Well, look no further than the extremely useful Wordtracker question generator tool
Let’s try some examples:
Internet marketing [...]

Time to find the experts…..try this SEO IQ quiz and see just how good you are at search engine optimisation.
Having tried it, it is a little like the Impossible Quiz though! There are so many double negatives make sure you have a clear head before starting.
Also, some of the questions are unclear, particularly those which [...]

For those still mired in ye olde worlde of search engine optimision eg on page, off page, a dash of PPC, a smidgen of article marketing, some brief sojourns into forum marketing, and, of course backlinks and link marketing, yesterday’s announcement that Facebook have acquired Friendfeed means that it really is time now to take [...]

Spamming Twitter is a no-no.
Even though Twitter has only a few days search capacity for previous Tweets (due to the monster amount of tweets that are written every minute, let alone day), there is no need at all to keep posting the same Tweet over and over again. Nor to pick on a trending topic [...]