Posted by Rory Truesdale on 7th of November, 2012
After nearly two years working in the search engine optimisation industry, I'm going to be hopping in my yellow submarine and sailing off in pursuit of a new career. Seeing as this is highly likely to be my last ever blog for SEO Consult, I thought I'd invite everyone who has read my blogs in the past to come together while I share wh...
Posted by Terry Banks on 10th of September, 2012
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 25th of June, 2012
Hopping on the success train of instant access video platforms such as Netflix and Lovefilm, Amazon have not only announced their plans to develop a similar area themselves, but also as far as to say the programs that they shall be showing first!
Starting with comedy and children’s series, Amazon is now looking for new hit shows to distribute o...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 21st of June, 2012
The fashion brand Nike are officially the 1st UK business to have a twitter campaign banned after advertising watchdogs disproved of the 'Make it Count' campaign.
Football hero Wayne Rooney from Manchester United has a huge marketing sponsorship agreement with the fashion brand and he has been sending out tweets promoting it further.
Wayne, who...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 19th of June, 2012
Social networking giant Facebook has had to pay £6million to charity following a lawsuit settled last May. Five Facebook users from the US state of California have won a court case in which they claim that they were misled by Facebooks’ terms and conditions. The disgruntled users claimed that when they clicked on the “like” button for compa...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 14th of June, 2012
An internet rush to purchase domain names was in full swing yesterday when it was announced that thousands of new internet address endings were to be made available for purchase.
Requests for addresses released by the Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers included names such as .ninja, .sex and .ferrari.
Google have made over 100 a...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 13th of June, 2012
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has revealed some details about what requests it has had through for domain addresses. Icann is the non-for profit body that coordinates unique web addresses so computers know where to find each other. A press conference being held later today (Wednesday 13th June) is expected to prov...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 12th of June, 2012
Websites including social network giant Facebook will be ordered to identify users who have been involved in the posting of derogatory messages online.
Supporting the new order, the government believes that victims of this abuse should have the right to know the identity of these malevolent messages without the need of expensive legal proceedings...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 11th of June, 2012
Following its acquisition in November 2009 for $750 million, Google has now integrated Admob into its flagship Adwords interface. What this means for the search engine giant is that they can now reach out to over 300,000 mobile apps across 12 countries. This will make their Adwords service more attractive than ever to potential advertisers...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 8th of June, 2012
Facebook has recently confirmed the launch of their own App Centre.
The news of the App Centre was first announced by Facebook as an intended way to implement additional revenue streams. This news has come at roughly the same time that openly admitted that their current revenue streams may see a drop as their users continue to migrate to mobile p...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 7th of June, 2012
It would appear not! Once again it has transpired in the news that millions of passwords have been leaked online. This time it was the social networking website Linkedin that was hit.
It was reported that online criminals managed to get hold of over 6 million passwords and posted an encrypted file on a web forum based in Russia to ask for help br...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 6th of June, 2012
Well a Japanese advertising company has developed a new surface for interactive advertising in the Tokyo subway. Running as an experiment over the next few weeks, the company is using the NFC (Near Field Communication) technology to send a customers phone to a website when they hold onto the bar with their phone in their hand.
In Japan over 70 mi...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 4th of June, 2012
In an interview in America, Apple CEO Tim Cook was apparently very guarded regarding developments between the two conglomerates, Facebook and Apple. However there were a few 'breadcrumbs' for Apple speculators to follow.
On the subject of Facebook and developments, Cook reassured that the relationship between the two is "very solid" and that Appl...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 1st of June, 2012
Social networking website LinkedIn is investigating claims that over six million of its users' passwords have been leaked onto the internet. Of the previously encrypted passwords almost 300,000 of them have been decrypted so far. It has been reported that hackers have posted a file containing encrypted passwords onto a Russian web forum. According...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 30th of May, 2012
Sina is the one of the most popular sites in China and 30% of surfers use it. This site was launched in 09 and now has 300,000,000 users and over 100,000,000 messages are posted every day.
The features and functions are very similar to twitter; you can post up to 140 letters and communicate with other users the same way using their user name. The...
Posted by Geoff
Parker on 29th of May, 2012
It has been rumoured that Facebook, the social networking giant is to produce its own smartphone which could be released as early as next year. Employees at Facebook and anonymous sources at ‘New York Times’ have been cited as suggesting that Facebook have been hiring engineers to work on a smartphone project....