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Microsoft & Google offering SEO services, is this right?
Posted by Katia Pereria on 16 Oct 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Search Engine News
Microsoft runs LiveSearch, Microsoft is also the parent company of aQuantive. aQuantive owns Avenue A Razorfish, which is a search marketing firm. They are also planning on partnering with another search marketing firm called The Search Agency offering comprehensive SEO services to small companies.
And it doesn’t stop there; Microsoft’s adManager also seems to offer a wide selection of search marketing services.
But its not just Microsoft, Google also owns a SEO company called Performics. Performics is one of the most popular SEO companies around. Is this not a conflict of interest?
Mobile user friendly websites
Posted by Celeste Yates on 27 Sep 2007 | Tagged as: Articles
When the first mobile phone came out, it was as large as a standard brick used in construction. The aerial had to be pulled out and for the most part of the country there was no signal. Since then, the size has been greatly reduced, the technology improved and features have advanced beyond the standard in and out-coming calls.
Latest versions of mobile phones, such as the iPhone, have now got the ability to act as a compact computer with access to the Internet. However, mobile friendly websites aren’t as advanced yet.
Beer and bowling, the truth behind team management
Posted by Caitlin Smythe on 22 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Articles
I’m a believer in the cohesion of the “team”. I think “team building” is a necessary and often underplayed component of general rat race policy. That is why, and I feel I must, congratulate MVI South Africa in its unfailing and keen commitment to the unity and uh…intimacy of every day spent in the sleepless world of online marketing. I must further congratulate them on their recent “team building” enterprise:
Hacking social networks - stolen identities
Posted by Katia Pereria on 08 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Social Media
I read a very disturbing post on Bruce Clay’s blog this morning about hackers in Australia using your personal information on social networks to steal your identities.
Jason West from the Marketing Pilgrim wrote about a story for The Sydney Morning Herald about a 25-year-old female that was being harassed by someone that stole her identify and created a false MySpace profile. The profile included comprising photos, lewd remarks, and the woman’s home address and phone number. She realized that this had happened after old men started, emailing, texting and some showing up on her doorstep. Scary.
The Danny Sullivan code
Posted by Katia Pereria on 08 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Social Media
— Just a bit of fun—
Also dubbed as “The greatest conspiracy in SEM history”…
I have been thoroughly enjoying all the rambling going on over at Pandia, There is a very interesting dispute brewing due to the uncertainty around the true origin of Sphinn. Perkoch got the ball rolling by comparing Sphinn to Dan Browns, “Da Vinci code”
Perkoch delves deep into the enigma that is Sphinn in a very insightful yet funny rationalisation as to why the name Shpinn derives from somewhere else altogether.
Supplemental results - death of a friend?
Posted by Brett Pringle on 02 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Common SEO Topics, Search Engine News
Supplemental results have been around for sometime (prior 2003 according to Google), although they only fairly recently, early 2006, surfaced into the online community as a hot topic for discussion after the infrastructure update by Google called Big Daddy. This update resulted in a new crawl/caching system used by Google : “Images below are taken from Matt Cutts for illustrative purposes”
Office birthday
Posted by Brett Pringle on 24 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, SEO Antics
Friday, March 30, the office was closed by 2pm to celebrate James’s 25 Birthday. James AKA “The Steed”, our in house Dev Trainee/Server Admin/The brain to pick everynow and then.
Off to Nag’s head in Noordhoek for lunch and we were treated to possibly the most amazing Cape Town summer day, not a breath of wind and the sun beating down. Due to “the steed’s” fascination with horses, the office decided to get him a little gift, to James’s delight 
SMO - Social Media Optimisation - introduction
Posted by Brett Pringle on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Articles
The Basics:
- Backlinks (Websites that link to your site)
- Traffic (Visitors to your site, for this post, we will exclude search engines from this term)
- Branding (Basically a service, product or even a concept that you can distinguish from the many others)
- Community Interaction (Interact with other users online throughout the globe, gathering feedback, ideas, responses)
Ever heard the terms SMO or Social Media mentioned? Where does it fit into the grand scheme of things? How do I benefit from using it? What does it exactly do? How do I start?
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What links do I need for my website?
Posted by Brett Pringle on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Link Development
If you ever browse through the online forums of WMW or even WPW, in the Link section you will always see countless questions on the value of recips, how many inbound links do i need, what links should i look for, are authority links better than 1000’s of normal links, etc…. the list is endless. The worst part, if that these questions are continually posted, with repeats.
