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UK Online Retail Market Worth £25bn in 2010
The accountancy firm, Deloitte have today announced that the UK online retail market will hit £25bn in 2010, a massive increase of £16bn in just 5 years (2005 UK online retail market £9bn). There are a number of other interesting findings that ca...
Google To Display ‘Hierarchy’ Breadcrumb Navigation For Some Results
Google have announced that they are rolling out another change to the way they display their search results by getting rid of the green URL under the search result and adding a “hierarchy” for some search results. The change is aimed at improving...
Google Says 410 HTTP Status Code “More Permanent” Than 404
This news is from a couple of weeks ago, but is still worth mentioning. A representative from Google has stated that they now view a 410 HTTP status code as “more permanent” than a 404 code. The difference between the two is that a 404 st...
What’s Going on With Google’s Search Results?
Further to reports made earlier about Google UK still displaying irrelevant US search results, a second ago I came across a number of peculiar natural listings on a search for Google Wave. This type of oversight doesn’t fill you with confidence...
Google Vince - How to Become a Brand in the Eyes of Google
Earlier in the year Google released an update to their algorithm which became know as the “Vince update” (named after the Google engineer that created the change). The update affected a relatively small pool of generic queries in competit...
Google September Share of Search Up To Almost 77% In The U.S.
iCrossing yesterday released the US search engine market share figures for September. According to the iCrossing data Google holds a 76.7% share of searches, with Bing increasing slightly month on month to 8.2% and Yahoo decreasing to 11.1%. This ...
META Keywords Tag Is Officially Useless For SEO
The META keywords tag, do we still use them or don’t we? Since Matt Cutts confirmed that Google do not use the keywords tag as part of their algorithm people have still been arguing that other search engines – in particular Yahoo –still are. We...
Google Launch Forum Posts Support in Search Listings
Google have today announced that forum posts will now be made visible within search listings. The new results will be available on listings for sites that have a large number of posts for a specific topic related to the search query. If there are a ...
Google Search Results Displaying Hot Trends
Google have taken a big step in real time search by displaying its ‘hot tends’ data in the search results. People who are searching for popular topics will see the trending data at the bottom of the search results page. The little snippet is said...
New Google Keyword Tool Gives Mobile Search Data
Further from our recent discussion on the importance of optimising your site for mobile search users are now able to gage estimated search volumes on keywords being made form mobile devices. Google’s updated keyword tool which is currently in beta...
Google Sidewiki - Now ANYONE can comment about your site in Google
Google have today released its new addition on the Google Toolbar –Sidewiki. The new feature allows users to add helpful information about an entire page or part of a page. This is then published to the browser allowing anyone else with Sidewiki ac...
Reasons Why Your Company Should Seriously Consider Mobile Search –NOW!
For many brands developing and optimising for mobile devices is a given. We all know that using the web on the go is fast becoming the new way to gain information and utilise the internet. Yet there are many businesses still failing to act upon this ...
Small Business SEO: The 5 Things You Need to Consider
As a small business owner, you are probably in a position of wanting to increase traffic to your website whilst working on a tight budget. Driving traffic through natural search results is appealing to small business owners because of the high volu...
TV Adverts Taking Search Into Account
*edited on 21.00 on 14/09/09 as some information was not correct On the weekend I spotted something that I have not before. Perhaps this has been happening for a while however I saw two adverts on the television that placed emphasis on searching for...
Google Continue To Leave Competitors Behind
Google’s position as the top dog in search is showing no signs of dwindling amid research from ComScore which shows that there has been a 41% increase in web searches over the past year. The research which looked at web searches between the periods...
A Staggering 87% of Online Shoppers Abandon Their Basket
According to research conducted by the university of Glasgow in conjunction with marketing an technology company Amaze, 87% of online shoppers abandon their basket before paying whilst 75% of shoppers claimed that they would return later on to comple...
Bing Continues To Increase Market Share In US
So it has been a few months now that Bing has been with us. Since its introduction a lot has been said about its potential to overthrow Google with a lot of people dismissing the impact it can have and others seeing it as a welcome change. So how has...
New Features for Google’s Insights for Search
Google have expanded their insights for search tool today by adding a number of new ‘international’ features. The new features allow you to forecast certain queries and visually see how these trends change over time from country to country. Also...
Google Caffeine: Test Google’s New Search System!
Google announced today that they have been working on a ‘secret project’ they say is going to be the next generation architecture for Google’s web search. However instead of incorporating the changes into their current search they are allowing ...
Microsoft and Yahoo! Finally Agree Partnership Deal
Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally officially announced the search deal that has been heavily anticipated for the past few years. The deal will see Yahoo! becoming the sales team for Microsoft’s online offering, whilst Microsoft will use their sear...
Yahoo to Team with Splashtop to Bring Us “Instant Search”
It would appear that Yahoo are making all the headlines this week. Firstly they have reported profit increases for the 2nd quarter of 2009 making $141 million for the three months up to June. This was reported to be an increase of 8% compared with th...
Yahoo! Homepage Redesigned at Last!
Yahoo is planning on rolling out the redesign of their homepage this Tuesday afternoon. This will be followed a month later by a redesign of the Yahoo search engine. This redesign should generate the same sort of exposure that the recent Bing update...
Watch Your Back Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Are Coming For You!
It appears Yahoo is close to tying up an alliance with Microsoft which would see a major threat to Google’s dominance in the search engine market. Microsoft, who have only recently released their new search engine Bing, are looking a deal with Yaho...
Google Release Search with My Location for iPhone 3.0
Google have come up with a stroke of genius with their latest addition to the ever growing mobile industry. They have introduced a feature called Search with My Location which allows you to search for certain establishments (Google use a jazz club as...
Google Advance Search Feature, Everyones A Winner.
Google has recently launched a new image search feature which allows the user to restrict their search to display images which have been tagged with specific licenses. E.g. Creative Commons, GNU Free Documentation or in the Public Domain. The new fe...
Continued Growth of PPC and SEO in Next Five Years
Forrester research has released new information in a recent report hammering home the inevitable future of online advertising. The report highlights in particular the enormous growth of Pay-Per-Click (PPC) and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) which ...
Yahoo Launch Innovative ‘Search Pad’
Following a brief announcement yesterday, Yahoo has today launched their much anticipated ‘Search Pad’. The aim of this new technology is to make searching for multiple items easier, and in doing so grabbing some of Google’s massive user base. ...
Bing (With The Help Of Twitter) Takes Step Further into Real Time Search
We have written a lot about real time search of late however we all feel that it is an area of great interest. We are quite possibly witnessing the beginning of something that will change online marketing as we have grwon to know it… Anyway B...
PPC Impressions Increase For Travel Sector
According to a report from Efficient Frontier the travel marketers’ PPC campaigns appear to be seeing higher returns during the economic recession. Statistics have shown that the impression values for the UK travel sector have increased by 32% from...
Microsoft Release SEO Document For Bing
Microsoft has just recently released a document detailing how Bing will affect your past and future SEO activities titled Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters. It is a good read and highlights the different elements of Bing that SEOs should real...
