When Google and Bing announced that Tweets may appear in their search results my first reaction was - this opens a whole new field for experts to sell services on how to optimise your site for Twitter or more relevantly your Twitter account for search engines. I wondered what people would say if th...
The recent launch of Google Sidewiki is destined to be one of the most controversial products ever to be seen on the Internet. The blogosphere and Twitter stream is simply alive with complaints about the implications of the Sidewiki....
In my post on banner advertising I said "it staggers me how few companies actually consider their click through rates from search results even though they are so preoccupied with their search results rankings" and subsequently received a barrage of enquiries as to what it was that I meant. ...
So Google has released it's own web browser (Chrome) - and all us web geeks simultaneously went yeehaa (as opposed to Yahoo!) and argh, another bloody browser to test everything in. But what I have realised talking to "normal" people is that most don't give a toss and just don't get what it all mea...
A few weeks ago Google finally converted their statistics for search volume in adword keyword analysis from an almost useless and misleading bar into actual numbers. This one change has given us a huge help in making crucial decisions about which keyword phrases truly meet our needs. By looking fo...
XEFEED is a product developed by Xebidy for Internet monitoring and RSS feed reading. In the past month we have begun to migrate this service away from XEFEED and across to Google Reader and other Google services.
In this post I look at the advantages that Google Reader has over XEFEED and the c...
Google Analytics has launched an interesting new section called Benchmarking and I have been playing with it our some of our clients sites today....
