Twitter has people talking about your brand

While some companies are just starting to learn how to track their reputation online, others are embracing the blogosphere and actively engaging in conversations every day.

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Posted 07 April 2008 16:01pm by Patrick Altoft with 0 comments

Will Google's Adwords trademark policy cause a storm in the UK?

Google is preparing for a backlash from large brands this week as details of its new trademark policy are implemented.

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Posted 04 April 2008 17:13pm by Patrick Altoft with 21 comments

The fragmented UK search market

Hitwise has published some interesting stats showing how fragmented and confused the UK search market was last month.

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Posted 03 April 2008 12:26pm by Patrick Altoft with 2 comments

Link building strategies from the experts

Link-building is by far the hardest partĀ of search engine optimisation - it's not only time consuming but it can be pretty boring work as well.

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Posted 02 April 2008 11:43am by Patrick Altoft with 2 comments

The ongoing battle for links

Most website owners understand that getting links from quality sites is the key to creating better Google rankings.

In the past few years Google has been working hard on making sure that links from low quality sites don't count as much as those from high quality sites and the link marketplace has changed dramatically.

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Posted 28 March 2008 15:13pm by Patrick Altoft with 5 comments

Do big brands really need to buy links?

Big brands have been traditionally slow to catch on when it comes to online marketing and quite a lot of them make a mess of it when they finally decide to embrace new strategies.

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Posted 27 March 2008 08:30am by Patrick Altoft with 4 comments

Keeping track of your competition

Most web savvy companies are aware of reputation monitoring and a large number of you probably have Google Alerts set up to report new links or mentions of your company name.

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Posted 25 March 2008 15:41pm by Patrick Altoft with 1 comment

Is Google's market share really dropping?

February data from comScore appears to indicate that Google is losing market share with its dominance slipping from 63.1% to 62.8%.

The sensationalist Reuters headline, published on Yahoo news, does Google no favours.

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Posted 20 March 2008 10:35am by Patrick Altoft with 1 comment

Google and social bookmarking

The SEO community was the victim of an interesting hoax this week when a blogger claimed that Google was about to punish sites that relied on social bookmarking to build links.

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Posted 19 March 2008 15:00pm by Patrick Altoft with 4 comments

Is net tracking a big problem?

The web is buzzing today after Sir Tim Berners-Lee rejected net tracking and voiced concerns about privacy and data sharing.

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Posted 17 March 2008 12:30pm by Patrick Altoft with 2 comments