By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 11:49
I received the following message when I tried to submit a client to DMOZ this morning. Apparently this occured last month as well. Hopefully these "behind the scenes" improvements will lead to a much better directory submission service and maybe even bring back the glory days of DMOZ?... read more
By Adrian Berry in Technology on Thursday, August 5, 2010 @ 10:57
Google announced yesterday on their official blog that they would be ceasing development of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration. It allowed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 13:01
It's great to see Google entering into the spirit of World Cup 2010 by making the traditional Google links at the bottom of the search listings more topical. Search for "World Cup" and you'll see this: read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Friday, April 16, 2010 @ 15:29
I've come to the conclusion - link building isn't a million miles away from wooing a woman. Both can lead to prospective partners for life. Both require patience and understanding. In addition you need to be friendly, courteous and have a good ear for listening. So here's a little SEO training... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 @ 12:37
In my first post on link building I mentioned in some detail how you can find your online competitor's back-links using a free, simple tool from Yahoo! Now it's all well and good having a list of competitor back-links, but how do you know which ones are good quality back links and have been given... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, February 15, 2010 @ 08:36
OK so it may not be as simple as that but, as one of the senior SEO Consultants here at I-COM, I thought it was about time I shared some of my tips and tricks that I've gathered over nearly 10 years of Search Engine Optimisation and link building. While we all know that social media... read more
By Adrian Berry in Technology on Friday, November 20, 2009 @ 00:00
So Google has finally showed us Chrome OS - Google's much anticipated operating system. So what's it like? Is it going to take over from Windows on your PC? Well the truth is no and it was never meant to do anyway.Chrome OS is Google's latest attempt to further its concept of "browser-based"... read more
By Adrian Berry in Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, November 2, 2009 @ 09:51
Now Google has removed PageRank from Webmaster Tools and is rumoured to be removing it from the Google toolbar soon, what impact will this have on linkbuilding in the future?To be honest Google's PageRank was never an indicator of SEO success for a website. In fact, here at I-COM when we are... read more
By Adrian Berry in Internet on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 @ 16:34
I've just done a search for Peter (Robot Dance) Crouch - the Tottenham footballer who has been picked to play up front for England vs Belarus on Wednesday night and Google gave back the following related searches at the bottom of the page; View the full size imageJudging by the world... read more
By Adrian Berry in Internet Marketing on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 @ 09:32
Interesting to see that the IAB and Price Waterhouse Coopers latest report shows that, while overall marketing spend has slid by 16% due to the recession, spend in online marketing grew in the UK by approximately 4.6% to £1.752bn between January and July of this year. For the first time ever, the... read more
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