When Google made personalised search a reality by introducing Google+ results into Search, creating “Search, Plus Your World” (or Search+ for everyone outside of the Googleplex), the world went mental. To recap, when you do a search on Google.com now you don’t just get global results, you also get personalised results from your Circles on [...]
Continue Reading →With the escalating competition in the web arena, it has become more important than ever to improve your SEO methodologies and take them to a higher level. The success of your website depends on how well you portray it before search engines and target visitor. Although there is a need to adopt new methods for [...]
Continue Reading →Anyone can use Facebook. Twitter takes a little more getting used to but after a bit of practice pretty much anyone can use that too. With these tools in hand, in theory anyone can use them to grow their business. Why then do the vast majority try and fail? The answer in its plainest possible [...]
Continue Reading →Search Engine Optimisation is a fickle business, I hear moans all the time from “seo experts” and website owners that Google did this and Bing did that and subsequently they have no visitors … oh this is the hardest year ever to be an SEO … etc. Whilst not denying this year and the previous [...]
Continue Reading →The idea of blogging for myself, and others in the “internet world” is about giving people the inside track on what is going on. For example this blog gives you the inside track on SEO helping you and your websites to move forward in the race to be an all star number one google hit. [...]
Continue Reading →So last week we heard a story from the BBC, it reported that Google Plus was already dead. But that simply isn’t the case, with 40 million sign ups in the first 100 days it broke the record for the fastest growing social media network ever. This week I read the Mark Zuckerberg announced the [...]
Continue Reading →Not so long ago the question businesses were asking was “Why should I waste my time and money on social media?”. The question they ask now is “Where should I invest my time and money on social media?”. That’s a dramatic change of attitude in a relatively short space of time – less than two [...]
Continue Reading →On November 3rd (2011), Google announced the official roll out of it’s latest search update. Some have dubbed it Google Panda 2.5, others Caffeine 2.0 – my view is more towards the later, and here is why. In a blog post announcing this update, on the Official Google Blog, there is a lot of talk about fresh [...]
Continue Reading →Many of my recent discussions have been about SEO Local Search. This in turn lead to my recent post about best practices when setting up Google Places for your business. But one of the more contentious and rapidly more talked about factors in local search is our lovely friends at the Yellow Pages and Thomson Local. Dont forget [...]
Continue Reading →With Social Media booming, the world of Personal Branding on the web has become something of a hot topic for myself when talking to some clients. Indeed, lets just say there are some interesting thoughts and experiments coming out of these discussions. Today I want us to think about Personal Branding (or public relations) and [...]
Continue Reading →Welcome to the penultimate article in the “building your brand” series, today I want to talk about the usage of social media to help promote your company, a product/service or yourself (personal brand). To help illustrate the various characters that can be found in social media and to see which best suits you I am [...]
Continue Reading →Last year saw what must be considered the real launch of AK Designs (andykinsey.com). For many years I had fiddled with the likes of flash websites, wholey graphical websites, but then last year I made a change… take a look at where we are going and what we are doing.
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