Posted by Jon Hogg on 5th of July, 2011
Update : At 10.10pm the account was suspended
This might make you lose faith in the company you've handed your credit card number to. The Twitter account of the UK arm of PayPal, @PayPalUK has been hacked.
Screenshots of the hack are here, which will no doubt be deleted once PayPal regain control over their account. Full timeline of the hack i...
Posted by SEO Consult on 7th of April, 2011
Earlier this week, Twitter announced that they have made even more changes to their search and 'who to follow' function, following on from a major overhaul late in 2010. After reading a great blog on the subject by Danny Sullivan this week, I decided to do some testing of my own to see if I can pin down the pros and cons of the update for the aver...
Posted by Nick on 21st of May, 2010
Twitter can be highly useful as part of a search engine optimisation campaign but is not always simple to use. If new to social networking of this kind and this type of internet marketing technique, Twitter can be intimidating. However, if you follow some simple tips available from experts within SEO, you...
Posted by SEO Consult on 11th of May, 2010
Three common Twitter mistakes
Twitter can be an effective internet marketing tool and is now commonly used by numerous online business running search engine optimisation campaigns. Twitter can help a brand to develop within the online community, help business owners provide a better quality of customer se...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 24th of April, 2010
Twitter has become extremely successful. Millions of internet users regularly log into the Twitter website to share their information and to read the information posted by others. Twitter appeals to a wide range of users and offers them very different benefits. Some like to follow their celebrity icons, ot...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 8th of April, 2010
Twitter is an increasingly popular social networking website which is being used by a number of businesses as part of their search engine optimisation campaign. Twitter can have a positive impact on an SEO campaign but only if used correctly. You will be using Twitter effectively if you communicate with ot...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 3rd of April, 2010
Twitter can be a useful tool in an SEO campaign. Numerous businesses now have representatives updating their Twitter profiles regularly. If used effectively, Twitter can help a company to gain exposure, to communicate with its target audience, to build trust and respect for its brand and to direct traffic...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 24th of March, 2010
A massive number of internet users now have a Twitter account and regularly visit the website. Users like to interact and follow what each other have been doing and what information they have to share through the Twitter service. A number of businesses are also finding Twitter a useful tool within their se...
Posted by Peter on 23rd of February, 2010
If Twitter was a person, the newspaper headlines would call the site’s relationship with the public a fairytale romance. In 2008, its position in the UK’s ‘most visited website’ lists was 969. In 2009, the site rocketed from this obscure position to number 38. This meteoric rise has...
Posted by SEO Consult on 16th of February, 2010
Twitter has fast become an essential online marketing tool and more and more companies are adopting Twitter as part of their online marketing strategy. With the growth of Twitter it is easy to get lost and start tweeting away without truly knowing what benefit (if any) you are getting, and most importantly...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 16th of February, 2010
Site owners, marketing firms and search engine optimisation agencies alike have been going mad trying to find ways to maximise on the social media sensation that is Twitter. It’s been around a year now since the micro-blogging site hit the big time, and the hype hasn’t really died down. Another...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 12th of February, 2010
If you've got a WordPress blog and a Twitter account but haven't linked the two, you're definitely missing a trick. Twitter is an excellent way of promoting your blog posts to your Twitter followers because it provides both instant exposure to your content and an easy way for those followers to then ReTweet t...
Posted by James on 11th of February, 2010
There was a lot of buzz about social media site Twitter in 2009. The little-site-that-could soared up from relative iniquity as a cute little way of blogging to become The Place To Be. As a consequence, businesses and even celebrities were falling all over themselves to design Twitter campaigns. Often, the...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 9th of February, 2010
It’s been quite a while since Twitter put nofollows on all user-embedded outbound links, and bloggers all over the world are still furious. Part of this fury comes from each fresh blogger that discovers that the move happened. Part of it is a disappointment that big socially grounded sites are behavi...
Posted by Jon Hogg on 4th of February, 2010
The retweeting etiquette is vital to know if you want your content to spread on Twitter. If you don’t want your content to spread on Twitter, what are you doing there?
Twitter, the micro-blog site that made a big splash in the internet community over the last year and a half, is much like any other...
Posted by Nick on 19th of January, 2010
Many businesses have turned to Twitter as part of their off-page SEO strategy, and rightly so. Twitter, the micro-blog and social media network, presents an opportunity to reach hundreds of thousands of internet users and foster inbound links in one fell swoop. The going is never easy, however, and strateg...