What is Google+? Google+ is Google’s social networking platform which has many similar features to Facebook and LinkedIn. It was launched during the summer of 2011. By the end of 2011 there were 90 million users and by January 2013 over 500 million with more than 65% active users. Source What are the unique Google+…
UPDATE – An updated presentation on what’s new in google search can be found here Ann Stanley had the honour of delivering a presentation to the knowledge-hungry marketeers at Digital Marketing Show 2013. In the presentation Ann discussed recent changes to Google’s organic algorithm and the effects the updates are likely to have. Topics covered include:…
Imagine waking up one day to not only find that an obscure website had posted a malicious and completely fabricated story about your business, but that the resulting reaction had caused your Facebook account to be suspended giving you no way of responding? That’s exactly the situation the managers at The Globe pub in Leicester…
In our constant search for new talented staff to join the technical team at Anicca – we have had to resort to a new recruitment and training initiative called “grow your own staff”. Yesterday Georgia, joined the Anicca team at 5.46pm, from Leicester General Hospital; thanks to her very happy and proud mum Penny and…
Curious about the adoption of Google+ by big brands? Ann Stanley and Bhavesh Chauhan have conducted some research to find out exactly what they are doing. Be sure to read.
My mum lost her fight with cancer 20 years ago today. This is quite an anniversary, which fortunately most people won’t get to celebrate, but she was a great inspirational women and deserves to be remembered! Losing a parent is always hard, but you feel very cheated when they are only 57 (I was 33…
I was asked to speak at the Second Wednesday Club in Nottingham this week. This is a buzzing networking event for creative agencies, web designers, marketing companies, freelancers and in-house marketers. The orginal club has been around for 14 years, but with the new organiser (Chris AllWood) and some generous new sponsors (that funds a…
The eBusiness Club has provided a program of workshops, breakfast briefings and events to East Midlands businesses since 2001. This has played an important role in educating local businesses in all aspects of online marketing, eCommerce and ICT. Ann Stanley has been a tutor and presenter on the program since the very early days and…
After weeks of rumour and speculation, Google have finally rolled out their much talked about Penguin 2.0 update. Google Penguin was first rolled out over a year ago, and aimed to tackle ‘link spam’ by penalising sites which had, in Google’s eyes, an ‘unnatural’ link profile. This resulted in a lot of sites, big and…
Ann Stanley MD of Anicca Digital successfully pitched to speak at SMX London last this week. The conference is organised by Search Engine Land and was chaired by Chris Sherman. The London event is held annually in May and this is the third time that Ann has spoken at the London event. The event is actually part of an international series with…
