Posted on 16th January 2012 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in News, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing
Google have updated their search algorithm to make more use of the data being gathered in Google+. Content made available publicly by those in your circles on Google+ will now start appearing in your search results with Google. Google also takes the information you choose to provide in a Google …
Posted on 7th November 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Blogs, Metanym News, News, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing
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 …
Posted on 2nd July 2011 by Jon in Mobile Web, New Websites, SEO, Social Media, Web Design, Web Marketing
Our client, Smile Style Dentist’s new website went live about a month ago. Since then they have experienced a 100% upturn in website enquiries! Smile Style were already heavy users of social media, email marketing, and other advanced online business building techniques, so this increase is a massive testimony to …
Posted on 24th May 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Blogs, News, Reviews, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Development, Web Marketing
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 …
Posted on 10th May 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in News, SEO, Uncategorized, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing
Amit Singhal of Google recently stated, “Some publishers have fixated on our prior Panda algorithm change, but Panda was just one of roughly 500 search improvements we expect to roll out to search this year. In fact, since we launched Panda, we’ve rolled out over a dozen additional tweaks to …
Posted on 10th May 2011 by Jon in SEO, Web Marketing
David Winfield is a Chartered Management Accountant who came to us in February as he wanted to improve his Google rankings for his chosen keywords: Accountant, Bookkeeping, Taxation and VAT all within his local area of Lincoln. “I receive prompt and regular feedback. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Matt to …
Posted on 4th May 2011 by Jon in SEO, Web Design, Web Marketing
Is your website STICKY? stick·y [stik-ee] – adjective: having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive. There are over 51 million Internet users in the UK – 82.5 % of population – and 28 million Facebook users, a 44.6% penetration rate! This means that your customers are increasingly internet-savvy. They …
Posted on 26th April 2011 by Jon in Metanym News, News, SEO, Social Media
Yesterday saw the launch of the Facebook Send button. The Facebook Like button has been around for about a year now, giving visitors to websites carrying the button an easy way to share a link to that page with their friends on Facebook. With a blog post yesterday on the …
Posted on 19th April 2011 by Mark Ford-Langstaff in Domains, Metanym News, News, SEO, Social Media, Uncategorized, Web Marketing
URL shorteners are used extensively on Twitter and with the increased importance of social media in SEO, we wondered how, if at all using shorteners affects SEO. Matt Cutts of Google has recently said via YouTube that URL shorteners do not affect SEO in an adverse way. One word of …
Posted on 1st April 2011 by Jon in News, SEO
As SEO ‘experts’ the world over constantly seem to rehash the same old ideas, we have become very agitated about an imminent change in focus from the major search engines to counter poor SEO advice and said to be the next big thing in SEO. “Search engine optimization is unlicensed, …
