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• Craig Addyman
• February 13, 2012
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• News, SEO

As of 1st February Google made an update search engine tracking list, search engines can be added manually but the Google team sporadically update the list to reflect new and upcoming search engines. This is great for anyone wanting to track said search engines but even better as it goes towards fixing a long standing [...]

• Aaron Whyte
• February 9, 2012
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• News

This week Google has confirmed that it is making a minor adjustment to the way it displays its single line site-links. They now include a small grey arrow pointing from the left of the site-links. They have said the changes will be “rolling out everywhere this week.” These changes help to clarify that the smaller [...]

• Andrew Allsop
• December 15, 2011
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• Social Media

The adoption of technology is often limited by the skills required to operate it. As these become less and less, more and more people can begin feeling its benefits. Therefore the primary consideration of my predictions isn’t technical or business developments, but rather what will continue to aid the internet’s ever growing ubiquity, main stream [...]

• Andrew Allsop
• November 29, 2011
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• Social Media

Copyright Abrinski – Flickr The opportunity in mining social data to better inform business decisions is met equally with the challenges of converting something so vast and varied into meaningful insight. In my opinion, it’s important to provide some differentiation between the functions Social Media and Social Analysis provide. In the context of business practice, [...]

• Craig Broadbent
• November 24, 2011
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• Uncategorised

Job Description: SEO Executive Reporting to: Head of Natural Search / Account Director Scope We have a very exciting opportunity available for a candidate who is looking to develop their organic search skills, working on some of the UK’s most exciting brands. Experience is preferred but we will consider recent graduates with relevant or transferable [...]

• Rick Gaskell
• November 22, 2011
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• SEO

Yesterday, November 21st, Yahoo Site Explorer was taken down. In it’s place is the following: With the completion of algorithmic transition to Bing, Yahoo! Search has merged Site Explorer into Bing Webmaster Tools. Webmasters should now be using the Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure that their websites continue to get high quality organic search traffic [...]

• Andrew Allsop
• November 21, 2011
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• Other

In the face of economic austerity, UK shoppers are expected to splash out a huge £8billion online this Christmas. With such impressive figures being touted by online retail body IMRG, it’s essential that businesses are taking the correct steps to avoid their websites dropping offline as hordes of shoppers rush to make last minute purchases. [...]

• Rick Gaskell
• November 8, 2011
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• SEO

Google announced a few days ago that there was about to be an algorithm update in order to improve their ability to determine to what degree results should be up-to-date. An example Google used to explain how this change will affect users, was that if you were searching for a recipe, it wouldn’t matter whether [...]

• Andrew Allsop
• November 8, 2011
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• Social Media

Continuing their bounding onslaught into social networking, Google have today launched Plus Pages. Although boasting around 40million members already, Google have played to their strength by allowing Pages to now show up in SERPs and have also introduced a feature called Direct Connect which reconfigures of the + operator as a way of following Google [...]

• Rick Gaskell
• November 7, 2011
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• SEO

3rd November 2011 Google Algorithm change expected to impact 35% of results Google announced they are rolling out a new search algorithm change that helps make the search results “fresher.” The big news here is that besides for the results being fresher, the results will change for about 35% of all searches. That is larger [...]