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Keyword Density

10 Comments 20 August 2010

It’s a question I’m often asked.  How many keywords or keyphrases should a web page ideally contain?  Here are my thoughts... What is a keyword/keyphrase? Essentially they are the words or phrases that the user employs (i.e. types into the search box) when using a search engine. Keywords to a large extent define the function [...]

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Google Image Search Gets A Face Lift

17 Comments 27 July 2010

We noticed the new Google image search being tried out on Google Chrome a little while ago, but Google have now officially launched the new-look image search worldwide; announcing the roll-out on their official blog. So what’s new in Google images? For a start, it’s far easier on the eye, with a tiled layout that [...]

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Badda Boom Badda Bing Bang Boom!

53 Comments 16 July 2010

Microsoft’s Bing showed some growth in June according to a report just out from US Internet marketing research company, comScore Inc.  Although still eating the dust from Google way out in front, Bing showed greater growth than its main search rival last month, with its share in the U.S. market increasing from 12.1% in May [...]

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China Renews Google’s License

4 Comments 12 July 2010

In an earlier post I discussed the situation with Google in China, after the decision on whether or not to renew the search giant’s Chinese license was pushed back by authorities in China. This was the latest in a long-running dispute between China and Google, which has included the search engine refusing to filter Chinese [...]

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The Beginning Of The End For The Google Monopoly?

5 Comments 08 July 2010

It’s been an interesting few months for Google; they’re moving into new areas (potentially including an iTunes-esque music service and a social media platform to rival Facebook), have updated their search algorithm and indexing technique and have won several court cases against them (including a recent victory over Viacom regarding copyrighted material hosted on YouTube). [...]

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Google and Apple Battle It Out Over Music Services

7 Comments 07 July 2010

Google Music As Apple work on their next version of iTunes, it looks as though Google could be about to launch their own music service; Google Music. A recent Chinese language Google page (screenshot above, or you can check out the page HERE), appears to offer Google users streaming or regular downloading capabilities, and looks [...]

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Google Removes Underline From SERP’s

3 Comments 01 July 2010

Has anyone else seen Google’s latest update to their results pages? Have a look at the screenshot below: They’ve removed the underline from each returned result; the change doesn’t appear to have come into place across all browsers yet though. I just did a quick search on Mozilla Firefox and the underline remains, whereas a [...]

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Using Twitters’ Real Time Search To Your Advantage

6 Comments 16 June 2010

Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms in the West;  with around 300,000 new new users signing up per day and an average of 180 million unique visitors per month [source]. But a huge number of both small businesses and large companies aren’t using Twitter and its’ real-time search to its full [...]

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