From the monthly archives: March 2011
I’ve been playing Empire Avenue for about 6 months, and it’s probably the main reason why I’ve become much more prolific at blogging, Tweeting, and generally getting more active within social media.
The premise of Empire Avenue is simple. Users are companies, and their [...]
There has already been plenty written about the Google Farmer (or alternatively Google Panda) Update over the past few weeks. The decision to batter so-called content farms algorithmically with lower visibility based on the quality of the content that was being published was met with a completely [...]
The idea of Google incorporating some kind of social network into their basic search functionality is nothing new, and the fact is that search relevance in 2011 and beyond needs to be defined by peer recommendation rather than external and uncontrolled factors such as artificial link building. [...]
I wrote a post about Quora taking a more authoritative approach to Q&A than other existing mass market answers websites, and it has had plenty of traction, and tonnes of coverage off the back of it. What it hasn’t had is the expected influx of [...]
Facebook’s phenomenal rate of growth over the past few years has meant that more than half a billion people around the world are now using the social network to communicate and engage with friends and businesses.
I was doing some research this week for a presentation I [...]
There are two types of offline shopping. There is the type that I do – especially around Christmas – which involves rushing into town, buying the exact things I went for, and getting home. Hopefully in the space of an hour. There is also the type that [...]
It’s been announced that Google have acquired BeatThatQuote, a UK financial comparison website for £37.7 million pounds. Compared to some of Google’s other acquisitions over the past few years, this isn’t a huge one in financial terms, but it is a very big deal [...]
In my last post about EdgeRank, I made the following comment towards the end of the post, which I thought deserved a bit more clarification:
Treat being liked as a primary conversion goal, and use tools like Website Optimiser to ensure that the button is [...]
The problem with any social networking website is that the larger your personal network grows, the more content you get exposed to on a daily basis. On Twitter, I follow around 200 different people, and in the time it took me to write this paragraph, there were [...]
People often seem to overlook the fact that Google are already a company that completely embraces social media. They already own a number of social networking websites:
Orkut Buzz Picassa Blogspot …
And a few of their products also have a social layer embedded in them:
Google [...]
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- Back at work in the UK. I brought chocolates. They've all gone.2013/05/12 22:16
- Back in the office. Time to do some SEO, or something.2013/04/25 21:33
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