Those of you who follow us on Twitter might have noticed our MD, Ann Stanley, was away in Stockholm this week as a guest speaker at the SMX Stockholm event. One of Ann’s speeches was concerned with how to do keyword research – and it went down so well we thought we’d share it here…
Google have launched a new site at www.wdyl.com called ‘What do you love?’ (WDYL). The site offers you a simple search box with the question ‘what do you love?’ followed by a button with a heart shape on which activates the search.
Bing recently launched an update on its Webmaster Tools feature. The update, known as the ‘Honey Badger’ update, provides some exciting new features, including the capability to control when and how Bing indexes your site, the ability to allow different users different access levels to your account, and a clever way to avoid duplicate content…
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…
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,…
Keeping you up to date with the latest in search engine marketing, we thought we might run through some of the interesting news from the recent SMX West in California. Especially, given as the SMX London event (on 16th & 17th May 2011) is fast approaching! Don’t forget you can get 15% off tickets with…
Google Places has come a long way since we last wrote a Google Places blog post. With the local/mobile search market continuing to grow, it is clear Google is positioning its Places function to be the premier local/mobile search service. Just do a simple location-based search and see how dominant the Place page results are!…
Having a blog on your site is a great way to keep it updated with regular, unique and interesting content. As well as search engines loving a well maintained and active site, your blog can also be used to increase the range of keywords you are targeting, improve your social media activity and attract those…
If you’re a business owner and have a website, or if you rely on your website for your business, then improving its visibility in search engines should be of vital importance to you. One way of doing this is to ensure that all of your site traffic is going to one place. While this may…
Ann Stanley from Leicester web design and online marketing agency Anicca Digital, was asked to present an Introduction to search engine optimisation to the Leicester branch of the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) on Tuesday 28th October. In addition Gillain Hegg presented a talk on copywriting for the web. To download Ann Stanley’s presentation click…