This week Yahoo announced that they will be improving their search engine by making the search cleaner with better filters. Search share hasn’t changed much recently with the top 5 in the US as follows:

 

	July 2011	August 2011	Difference
Google Sites	65.1%	64.8%	-0.3%
Yahoo Sites	16.1%	16.3%	0.2%
Microsoft Sites	14.4%	14.7%	0.3%
Ask Network	2.9%	3.0%	0.1%
AOL	1.5%	1.3%	-0.2%

 

Talk of a sale of some or all of Yahoo still continues to rumble on.

I know the title sounds a bit hard to believe, I was quite shocked. While it can sometimes takes an age for Google to crawl your new page I created a quick page with not a huge amount on it and a single image and the subject wasn’t really related to the site (I’ll explain in a minute).
So a little more meat on the bone for this little tale. I had been working on a tour operator website who specialise in Winter sports and wrote a little article about fake currency and how innocently you could get into big trouble. Also explained how to identify fake notes as explained from a bank. I thought useful info for the traveller to know but not really anything about skiing or snowboarding.
In under an hour I saw (live) visitors on the site who had searched for information on fake notes. So a quick scan on Google and found we were ranking at number 9!

** UPDATE **

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Bing is now starting to show it’s results of street mapping in the UK.
Earlier this year Bing announced they were going to send out cameras in the UK to map out the road for their Streetside application. Bing are basically following Googles lead on their Streetview app by sending out cars with 360 degree cameras on the roofs. Over the last few days these images have started to come online.

So now there is two places you can see your home on the Net.

Interactive marketing is reported to increase to $77b a year by 2016. It will also over take TV advertising and will be the most important forms of advertising for the future.
If you are not looking into online advertising we suggest you should, you don’t need to spend millions. You can start with a very modest amount, contact us and we can explain how little you would need to spend using SEO (search engine optimisation) and PPC (pay per click) options.

They say 57% of the total amount of web searches click on the top 3 results. If your website is not in the top 3 positions contact us NOW!

The German state of Schlewsing-Holstein have declared that ‘likes’ from facebook are to be removed from all websites. They say that it violates strict privacy laws in the country. If removal of the ‘like’ buttons are not done the maximum fine is 50,000€.
The reason is because they feel that the site illegally tracks peoples movements on the internet. In that case they best get on the phone to Google, Microsoft, Apple…..

Search Engine Optimisation – SEO

What is seo?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation which is essentially tweaking your website to highlight your keywords so search engines like Google and Bing value your website well for those keywords. One of the main factors for SEO are backlinks, these are links coming from other websites to yours. For some search engines just having lots of links to your website will help your website rank much better. However search engines like Google and Bing it is a little more complicated. They have very advanced algorithms to calculate the value of each link to your site which in turn will go towards helping them value your website. Every SEO company would love to know what these algorithms are but sadly they are the biggest secret on the internet. One thing for sure is that these algorithms keep changing, the search engines tweak them though-out the year so keeping on top of the latest news is very important. This as you can imagine is very time consuming and for a lot of businesses they simply don’t have the time to do the research or have the finances to hire a full time in house SEO consultant.

This is where we come in, for a lot of websites you don’t need a full time SEO consultant but maybe just a few hours or days a month. Juicy SEO offer SEO consultants adhoc to fit in with your business schedule. By using Juicy SEO consultants you keep the costs down and importantly you know the SEO practices performed by our consultants are up to date with the most recent SEO news.

SEO keywords

What are keywords?

The very first job to do when starting your SEO campaign is to decide on your keywords. Keywords are what you expect your future customers type into search engines to find your website. Choosing the correct keywords is very important and although you will know your business better than anyone else the keywords you think are right might not be.

For example if your business is selling batteries and your battery shop is in Bristol you might think people would type in ‘Bristol batteries’ or ‘batteries from Bristol’. That would make perfect sense, however these searches might rarely happen and you would be tailoring your website for keywords which people don’t use.

Juicy SEO work with our clients to identify keywords that are being used in search engines which are also strong for their website.

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