Category Archives: Blogs

Google changes algorithm to emphasise new, relevant content

Posted on 7th November 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Blogs, Metanym News, News, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing

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Google has announced changes to its algorithm in an effort to reward searchers with the freshest relevant content available. In practical terms this should mean that when searching for something such as “Milton Keynes Dons football results” the most recent game should appear at the top of the list rather …

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Oxfordshire scaffold company erect new website

Posted on 22nd September 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Banbury, Blogs, Metanym News, New Websites, News, Reviews, Uncategorized, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing

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K Scaffolding Hire and Sales Ltd based near Bicester have launched their new Metanym built website. K Scaffolding were passed our details from another happy client and were very clear what they wanted to achieve with their new website, namely to illustrate how simple it is to erect a tower …

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French TV bans the words “Twitter” and “Facebook”

Posted on 27th July 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Blogs, News, Social Media

The Bugle

Reproduced with kind permission from The Bugle (www.thebugle.eu.) The French government has banned the use of the words Facebook and Twitter on television and radio. The controversial move is being implemented under a 1992 law that stipulates that  commercial enterprises should not be promoted on news programmes. More and more …

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New web domain suffixes… if you’ve got the money

Posted on 20th June 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Banbury, Blogs, Domains, News, Uncategorized, Web Development

Social Search

Big business will be able to start creating new web addresses with bespoke suffixes from next year when applications can be made to ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).  There are currently 22 suffixes available with the .co.uk and .com being the most popular in the UK.  …

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Stepping Stones of Banbury launch new website

Posted on 16th June 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Banbury, Blogs, Metanym News, News, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing

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There are over 20 lettings agents in Banbury and with more and more people searching for property online any website in this space has to look the part to attract new clients, especially landlords.  Stepping Stones new website features a property listing tool that enables anyone in the office to …

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Smile Style Dental Care website goes live

Posted on 15th June 2011 by Jon in Blogs, Mobile Web, New Websites, Social Media, Web Design

Smile Style Dental Care Centre

Yesterday saw the launch of the new Smile Style Dental Care website.  Smile Style are an award winning transformational Dental Practice in Stafford. Their new website has information pages, structured sections for news, treatments, offers and testimonials, and is fully integrated with the Practice’s social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter and …

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Changes to Internet privacy laws

Posted on 27th May 2011 by Jon in Blogs, Ecommerce, News, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing

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European privacy laws came into force yesterday (26/5/11), meaning that all companies with a website need to consider the role of cookies and how they are going to address the issues that will now affect them. The purpose of the legislation is to give internet users greater control over data …

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Social search – Bing Vs Google

Posted on 24th May 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Blogs, News, Reviews, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Development, Web Marketing

Social Search

Bing recently cranked up its efforts to catch Google with the integration of Facebook data into its search results.  In Bing’s own words, “you can receive personalized search results based on the opinions of your friends by simply signing into Facebook. New features make it easier to see what your …

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First ‘Streetview’, now Google will photograph the inside of your business!

Posted on 11th May 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Blogs, News, Web Design, Web Marketing

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Google has announced Google Business Photos.  Businesses can apply to have Google send their photographers round and the results will be posted to your ‘places’ page.  Currently not in the UK but it’s bound to be here soon.  Please add your comments below and start tidying your shop window!

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Review of Screenflow screencast software for the Mac

Posted on 12th November 2009 by jon in Blogs, Reviews, Web Marketing

Hi everyone – I’ve been wanting to get into putting some video on the blog for ages.  I particularly want to do website tours and a few othe ideas I have which involve “screencasting”, i.e. where you make a video of what is on your computer screen, with a little …

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