Posts by Mike Blackburn on Internet Marketing

I've just read with amazement an article in today's Crains about a Liverpool search firm CL5 that has been awarded a grant by North West Vision and Media to set up an office in Manchester. To be quite frank I can't believe it - search is one of the few parts of the market that are really... read more

I have just been reading on one of our law client's blogs about a recent ruling from the High Court which seems to suggest that bloggers' no longer have a right to anonymity. Following a case which resulted in the author of a blog entitled "Nightjack" being outed,  bloggers can now be... read more

Some people watch stocks go up and down, SEO’ers watch listings. One of the most watched sites is GoCompare. They advertise heavily on TV which drives strong brand awareness – people know the GoCompare name. What typically happens is that they then go to the internet and type... read more

Google has just launched a new tool within Analytics called Google Visualizer.It's really very interesting and allows you to plot various site performance results on a graph and then see how they've evolved over a set period.I did a little experiment on one of our client's results to try to test... read more

I've just come across this 1994 promotional video about the internet from The Digital Equipment Corporation.I was at University in 1994 and remember using the internet to download games like the Prince of Persia. Looking back I remember it (the internet) being very textual but to be honest... read more

Three things that really get my goat day-to-day as we try to run a SEO business. In no particular order they are: Recruitment Companies - we must take at least 15 calls a day from agents looking to provide us with staff. We're fortunate enough to be growing but they should learn that... read more

There's lots of discussion in the blogosphere about shortfalls in Google's local service, see this article from Blogstorm.The bloggers are complaining that searches for non-geographic specific phrases are now including local search results dependent on Google's best guess of your location. The... read more

The Christie Hospital, the specialist cancer hospital in Manchester, has lost £6.5m following the collapse of an Icelandic bank and needs the support of the local community in Manchester in order to recover the money. This money would have been used to help them continue to provide the same... read more

Crains Manchester Business newspaper yesterday published its list of the top digital agencies in Manchester and surrounding towns. The list is generated by companies themselves submitting information to the paper, so it should perhaps be taken with a bit of a pinch of salt... but we're... read more

I-COM believe in personal development, we like to give people responsibility for their own accounts as quickly as possible. Touch wood, this seems to work because not many people leave the business once they're here. We're now ready to expand the business again and we're looking for some... read more