A recent report by Experian highlights that SEO and Social Media, as expected for most companies aiming to build their brand online, are top priorities. Unfortunately, in Australia this does not seem to the case. In fact, the statistics below … Read More
There is a new internet browser in town – and it is from Yandex. As the last of the world’s major search companies to launch its own browser, Yandex now joins the likes of Chrome, IE, and Baidu Explorer. A … Read More
As a significant social media mogul, Facebook provides a prevalent means of advertising for countries all over the world, and being able to view the ads that are being run globally can prove to be quite revealing. Many assorted types … Read More
Online fashion is big business. The sector has become one of the largest in ecommerce today, as both retailers and consumers have embraced the digital channel for selling/purchasing fashion items of all kinds. This is no different in Russia, where … Read More
While China has seen the first signs of a decelerating economy at the macro-level, the digital landscape largely continues to march on unimpeded. According to a list released earlier today by Forbes China on the country’s top CEOs for 2012, … Read More
Today Facebook announced that Offers, up until now only available for a select few during a testing period, is going global (in Japan it will be available next week). Businesses with more than 400 fans can now create online Offers directly … Read More
With 88% of internet users now based outside the US, it is no surprise that more and more organizations are looking to overseas markets to grow their business and generate revenue. Whatever your industry, it is likely that at least … Read More
TechCrunch reported in late July that the App Store has surpassed 650,000 apps. It therefore goes without saying that app visibility in itself has become an extremely challenging task. Assuming you’ve already launched your app (which was hopefully accompanied by a … Read More
Word spread around of another Google Panda update in the SEO world. However, Matt Cutts later tweeted it was just an update to the diversity of domains in search results. At a recent SEO seminar in Australia, all involved in the … Read More
Yesterday, rumours spread quickly that Yandex Maps will be integrated into Apple’s own mapping service on iOS6 (Bloomberg, TechCrunch, SearchEngineLand). TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden gives a good description of how this integration will play out: “When users are looking for details … Read More
Many SEOs would have heard the news of Google creating a patent known as the rank modifying spamming algorithm. For those who do not know what this is, it is a modification in the algorithm which will intend to identify … Read More
The global search engine market stood at 185 billion searches worldwide in October 2011; accounting to nearly 6 billion searches a day, over 248 million searches per hour, or 4 million searches per minute. It is hardly surprising to anyone … Read More
Multilingual web marketing agency Webcertain is currently researching the impact and challenges of geo-targeting for international businesses. Here is a snapshot of a few findings so far: Almost half of international organisations have not deployed the rel alternate hreflang annotations to … Read More
New statistics pop up every day about mobile and its growing share of overall web traffic. According to a nice infographic on this exact topic by Go-Globe, mobile has broken past 10% of total web traffic globally. This seems to … Read More
SEO techniques are not the only thing to have changed this year. In Australia we have been data mining trends in users’ search behaviour and have uncovered some interesting pieces of data. The way in which Australians search has changed dramatically. Most … Read More
