From the monthly archives: July 2011

New SiteLinks in Google

By On July 25, 2011 · 4 Comments

Last week it appeared that Google were testing a new format for SiteLinks in the organic search results.  The big difference with these compared to what we see at the moment is that they’re, well, big:

This compares to the normal version of SiteLinks which look like this:

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Why Agencies Find Social Media Hard

By On July 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’ve had a number of conversations with various people at different digital agencies where there is still a struggle about defining a social media product for their clients.  This applies to guys at media agencies, search agencies, and email agencies, and it’s no real surprise.  When you [...]

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First Mover Advantage Doesn’t Matter

By On July 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

…if you’re moving in the wrong direction.

Big numbers are big news, and if you want to know the moment when businesses all over the world “switched on” to thinking about Social Media as being a massive opportunity for driving additional revenue, you need to look no [...]

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Abiding themes 9 / Power to the People

By On July 7, 2011 · 1 Comment

There is no denying that the increase in the ability of individuals to communicate through social media channels has allowed greater freedom of expression, and given people a stronger voice than they have had before.  With Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, the opinion of a single person can [...]

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news and privacy

By On July 6, 2011 · 1 Comment

A while ago, I posted about the importance of privacy, and controlling how your personal information is being shared and used by the services that you engage with on line.  Over the past few months since I wrote that post, we’ve seen the furore about [...]

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The New Look Google SERPs

By On July 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Google+ has been getting all the big headlines this week – and rightly so, it’s a huge development, but the revamp of Google’s entire UI is also a big thing too, and could have some profound effects on user interaction with [...]

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