Cape Town Tamarites were welcomed by a familiar face as we walked into our warm office a couple of weeks ago – Simo Sam was spending the day with us. Simo is a recipient of the Tamar school scholarship and is a proud St. Cyprians girl. This being one of my own rival schools when [...]
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Simo Sam spends the day
16 July 2010 | Posted by Alex Christie |Tags: csr | Posted in Uncategorized | No comments »
A BBC Odyssey – Me and mine on You and Yours
15 July 2010 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEOTags: BBC, press coverage, radio 4, search attitudes, you and yours | Posted in Search | No comments »
Yesterday I was invited to talk about some research into search attitudes we conducted with You Gov on the ever excellent ‘You and Yours’ programme on Radio 4. What was interesting was the priority that was put on a number of topics that could have been covered. Bearing in mind that Y&Y is a consumer [...]
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Using content to enhance a brand
13 July 2010 | Posted by Annie Wakefield | Digital Marketing ManagerTags: featured | Posted in Content Writing, Search | No comments »
In search, we are always seeking to ensure that a visitor to our site engages with us in some capacity. Whether it is through the purchasing of a product, the requesting of a call back or the registering of contact details on the site – we are seeking to encourage a transaction of some kind. [...]
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Twitter now second only to Google in terms of search volumes
9 July 2010 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Digital Marketing DirectorTags: biz stone, Search Engine, telegraph, twitter | Posted in Search, Social Media | 1 Comment »
According to Twitter co-founded Biz Stone, while speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival this week, Twitter is now handling over 800 million search queries every single day, or 24 billion search queries per month. This makes it second only to Google, who handle 88 billion each month – and absolutely trounces Bing (4.1 billion) and [...]
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How the Government helps UK growing businesses
9 July 2010 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEOTags: agencies, business, business link, government, sme | Posted in Tanya Goodin | No comments »
Have you been on the Business Link site recently? Me neither. But you will be as pleased as I am to know that our business tax pennies have been well spent over the past three years. Click on the link How Much ???!!! and you’re looking at a business investment of £105 million (yep, £105,000,000). Stunned [...]
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Being an early adopter pays – will the early bird pay out too?
6 July 2010 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEOTags: earlybird, monetisation, twitter | Posted in Social Media | No comments »
As somebody who regularly checks my Twitter account at odd times of the day (and night!), I’m always interested to see the difference in my stream at different times of the day. A night-time check-in (here in the UK) obviously reveals a twitter stream mostly filled with my US friends, though there’s always a few [...]
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IPhone 4: Likes and dislikes
6 July 2010 | Posted by Alex Christie |Tags: Apple, IPhone, Iphone 3GS, Iphone 4, itunes | Posted in Technology | No comments »
As you may have heard by now, Apple has launched their latest iPhone incarnation. Launched a couple of weeks ago as iPhone 4G, it has quickly become known as iPhone 4. The 4G element denotes 4th generation and not 4G Network as a lot of people initially believed. Note it doesn’t have 4G capabilities. Things [...]
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The Great nofollow Debate
2 July 2010 | Posted by Alex Christie |Tags: Google, nofollow, pagerank, SEO | Posted in Search | 1 Comment »
Recently Matt Cutts posted a video on the Google Webmaster YouTube channel stating that in the vast majority of circumstances site owners should not add nofollow attributes on internal links.
There is some disagreement in the SEO community on this issue with a poll on Search Engine Roundtable showing a fairly even split of opinion, (48% saying they do use nofollows internally and 52% saying they don’t).
So with that in mind I thought it best to chime in to the debate and state my position
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The trouble with Facebook community pages…
2 July 2010 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Digital Marketing DirectorTags: brand pages, community, facebook, social media | Posted in Social Media | No comments »
I’ve been thinking about Facebook’s (relatively) new ‘Community Pages’ lately, especially after a back-n-forth I was having with ITV’s Ben Ayers on Twitter yesterday. General consensus from within the online marketing community is that the new, mainly auto-generated pages going to turn in to something big at some point, but as they stand they’re a [...]
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New Windows 8 operating system available in a year’s time
30 June 2010 | Posted by Alex Christie |Tags: Windows, Windows 8, Windows OS | Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »
News has been leaked onto the internet that Microsoft has started work on their next operating system, predictably named Windows 8. On the back of the hugely successful Window 7, it seems that Microsoft isn’t resting on their laurels. Key features are: Even faster startup, which is always nice. Facial recognition technology. Improved touch screen [...]
