It seems like Michael Jackson and more importantly his reach and fan base, is actually bigger than the Internet can handle.  The king of pop’s demise brought the Internet to a standstill this week as Google interpreted the spike in searches for his name as a malware attack and users querying it received an error message for a period of around 25 mins.  Microblogging tool twitter crashed through the sheer volume of users logging on to the service and performance issues were reported on u... Read Full Story

It seems like Michael Jackson and more importantly his reach and fan base, is actually bigger than the Internet can handle.  The king of pop’s demise brought the Internet to a standstill this week as Google interpreted the spike in searches for his name as a malware attack and users querying it received an error message for a period of around 25 mins.  Microblogging tool twitter crashed through the sheer volume of users logging on to the service and performance issues were reported on u... Read Full Story

There has been a lot of speculation in the world of social media about how twitter plan to monetise their huge user base.  It is a big decision for twitter as if they get it wrong, it could all come tumbling down overnight.  Bombard users with adverts, and you will put them off, decide you are going to charge for accounts, and they could all walk away.  The owners themselves have stated an intention to utilise paid corporate accounts rather than advertising, but that in itself surely wont bri... Read Full Story

There has been a lot of speculation in the world of social media about how twitter plan to monetise their huge user base.  It is a big decision for twitter as if they get it wrong, it could all come tumbling down overnight.  Bombard users with adverts, and you will put them off, decide you are going to charge for accounts, and they could all walk away.  The owners themselves have stated an intention to utilise paid corporate accounts rather than advertising, but that in itself surely wont bri... Read Full Story

Its been an interesting couple of weeks for UK SEO’s as Google makes a couple of changes and announcements which keep them guessing about the best methods for better search engine positions. Pagerank Sculpting Debate - Google came out with the news that around a year ago they changed the way pagerank was passed between pages.  The [...] No related posts. Read Full Story

Its been an interesting couple of weeks for UK as Google makes a couple of changes and announcements which keep them guessing about the best methods for better search engine positions. Pagerank Sculpting Debate - Google came out with the news that around a year ago they changed the way pagerank was passed between pages.  The original model was that a pagerank score (not necessarily the one shown in toolbar but the ture link score a page can pass) was split evenly between the links out from t... Read Full Story

So one of the big news stories this week has been bing overtaking Yahoo! to become the second most used search engine since its launch last week.  On its launch date of June 3rd bing received 10.8% of search engine traffic ahead of both Yahoo! and Ask and whilst this figure reduced to 3.1% of search engine traffic by June 6th but it still remained ahead of its rivals. This news will obviously delight Microsoft but I cant help but thinking it is just an initial spike as people check out the ne... Read Full Story

So one of the big news stories this week has been bing overtaking Yahoo! to become the second most used search engine since its launch last week.  On its launch date of June 3rd bing received 10.8% of search engine traffic ahead of both Yahoo! and Ask and whilst this figure reduced to 3.1% of search engine traffic by June 6th but it still remained ahead of its rivals. This news will obviously delight Microsoft but I cant help but thinking it is just an initial spike as people check out the ne... Read Full Story

So this week saw the launch of Microsoft’s latest attempt to gain a foothold in the search marketing world.  Originally thought to be named Kumo, but finally released as Bing, this is Microsoft’s latest attempt to challenge Google’s supremacy and prove they have something different to offer.  Backed my a multimillion dollar advertising campaign in the US announcing the end of the search engine and the revolution of their “decision engine” they seem to strongly be... Read Full Story

So this week saw the launch of Microsoft’s latest attempt to gain a foothold in the search marketing world.  Originally thought to be named Kumo, but finally released as Bing, this is Microsoft’s latest attempt to challenge Google’s supremacy and prove they have something different to offer.  Backed my a multimillion dollar advertising campaign in the US announcing the end of the search engine and the revolution of their “decision engine” they seem to strongly be... Read Full Story