Schema.org – Google, Yahoo and Bing join forces to create a universal mark-up scheme

Last week the big three search engines, Google, Yahoo and Bing, announced a collaboration project called Schema.org. The project is a collection of schemas of html tags that webmasters can use to mark-up web content in such a way that it will be understandable to search engine spiders. Search engines might be able to read…

Google +1 Buttons for Websites – How does Google +1 affect Search Results?

This week Google launched their +1 button for websites. Like the +1 button that was launched for organic search results earlier this year, the +1 button for websites allows users to place a recommendation for web pages they like. Recommendations will be visible on the webpage, in search results, and on users’ Google profiles. Additionally,…

Google AdWords Ad Extensions & New Formats – Top Tips From SMX London

For everyone that missed the brilliant SMX conference in London this week, here are the top tips from the session on” Google AdWords Ad Extension and other new ad features”. The Panel consisted of: Christine Churchill, President KeyRelevance – session moderator Ann Stanley, MD Anicca Digital – an overview of the 4 types of ad…

New Google Analytics Version – Using Analytics for your Website

Google recently released their new version of Google Analytics with the aim ‘to make it easier and faster to get to the data you want and to enhance the Google Analytics platform to bring you major new functionality’. This is the biggest change to Analytics in over a year and brings in some great new features….

‘Social marketing: How can it work for your business?’ – Training from Ann Stanley at CIM

Ann Stanley, Managing Director of Anicca Digital, is presenting a workshop entitled ‘Social Marketing: How can it work for your business?’ at the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in Leicester. The event takes place on 14th April 2011 at Phoenix Square, Leicester.

Twitter Analytics – Track The Effectiveness Of Your Social Media Campaign

There are loads of social media analytics packages out there at the moment – all of which can be used to track how effective your social media campaigns are (in terms of retweets, follows etc…). While these packages all offer varying degrees of functionality and different tools/tracking criteria, they do all tend to have one…

Facebook Deals: Bringing more small businesses into online marketing?

Facebook launched their ‘Deals’ feature in the UK yesterday – a feature which looks set to change the way local businesses use the internet. Facebook Deals will allow users who access Facebook via their mobile phones to check in to their location and view local businesses near to them. Local businesses can then offer deals…