Facebook is preparing to go public, marking a momentous occasion in the relatively short history of this ground-breaking, disruptive and controversial company. The social network are expecting to raise around $5 billion in initial investment, a figure that is in line with some of the largest Initial Public Offerings (IPO) in the history of technology. As Read Blog…
5 Facebook Risk Factors
February 10th, 2012 by Rory
Google: A Web of Nouns Versus a Web of Verbs
February 6th, 2012 by Rory
I have spoken in the past about how the major search engines, notably Google and Bing, have made clear their desire to become search engines of verbs rather than of nouns. For those that aren’t as geeky about grammar as me, nouns are naming words attributed to people, animals, places, things and other abstract ideas. Verbs, Read Blog…
How to maintain a low bounce rate
February 2nd, 2012 by Rory
For those of you that follow any search engine optimisation blogs, or just SEO in general, then you will know of the bounce rate metric. It sounds like a very innocent measurement, but in reality it can become the bane of a webmaster or SEO programmers life as they rack their brains thinking of ways to Read Blog…
We all know about PageRank, but what’s EdgeRank?
January 25th, 2012 by Rory
If you speak to any search engine optimisation expert and mention the term ‘PageRank‘, they’ll easily be able to reel off a long and detailed history about the history of Google and the structure of the internet. If you mention the term ‘EdgeRank’, they might shoot you a look of bewilderment and confusion, because when we Read Blog…
Make Crowdsourcing part of your SEO Strategy
January 23rd, 2012 by Rory
One of the best things I have found about working in search engine optimisation and internet marketing, is that you come to really come to appreciate the great ideas and innovations on the web that might pass by people whose understanding of SEO is relatively limited. I was recently shown a blog hosted by Starbuck’s Read Blog…
Is ‘Search Plus Your World’ anti-competitive?
January 17th, 2012 by Rory
I know what you’re thinking, not another ‘Search Plus Your World‘ article! It’s true that that the blogosphere has become over saturated with commentators analysing the update from every angle you could possible think of. Is it a positive move? Is it anti-competitive? Is it an attempt to get Facebook investigated for privacy violations? Is it Read Blog…
Can SEO still be effective without Social Media Marketing?
January 13th, 2012 by Rory
The start of a New Year marks a time when significant voices within an industry begin making their predictions for the next twelve months within said industry. This is very much the case in search engine optimisation, and numerous ideas and theories have already been put forward about what 2012 holds in store for SEO. One Read Blog…
Need Good Content? Learn from the Best
January 12th, 2012 by Kyle
Whilst there is much more to making your site successful than writing content, the vast majority of your visitors will notice if you gloss over it. At the very least, content should tell the reader where they are and what they can expect to find within your site. Beyond that? Well, that really is up Read Blog…









