Web Design & SEO Blog

Following last week’s blog on Google TV, another milestone in internet TV was hurdled this week as Ofcom announced it would not be launching an investigation into the UK’s equivalent YouView, following complaints by non-associated broadcasters. This could offer them enough breathing space to herald in a new era of web design. [Read On]

The big news on Google Adwords blog this week was the announcement of a new course in  remarketing. The initial course was a one hour interactive presentation, in the form of a 'webinar', delivered by an Online Media Specialist from Google. The course, hosted via the Adwords Online Classroom, was first delivered on Wednesday 20th October, with very little forewarning. It’s seen by industry insiders as a trial for rolling out further courses in the area of pay per click advertising across a variety of subjects. [Read On]

The first range of Google ready TV’s were launched by Sony last week and are expected to hit US stores this weekend, well ahead of Google TV’s own launch in a few weeks heralding new possibilities and opportunities in web design. In its own words, Google TV will combine ‘TV, apps, search and the web’, ultimately colonising the only household device with a monitor that no-one on the internet has yet penetrated with any great success. [Read On]

A recent report from Pay Per Click statistician SearchIgnite has confirmed Google as the market leader for paid search, with a dominant 80.2% of PPC traffic passing through their search engine in the third quarter. This is their most dominant market share to date, and a rise of nearly 8% from this time last year. However, industry insiders are asking if the figure is really as unassailable as it sounds; especially now Bing-Yahoo is starting to wake waves. [Read On]

I was carrying out some research for one of our clients and came across something I'd never seen before in Google, their site dominating the top three slots on page 1 for one of the key phrases we're optimising for. [Read On]

When you’re looking to design a mobile website, there are several languages you can choose from each with different pros and cons. WML, Wireless Markup Language was one of the first languages designed specifically for mobile. Consequently, it was essential to the birth of mobile internet and its subsequent explosion. However, it has now been superseded by several different technologies. For those new to mobile web design it has very few uses, being mainly the reserve of legacy systems and companies that target older phones either in the UK or developing world. [Read On]

Once you have a mobile website set up, you need to start directing traffic to it, just as you would for an internet site. Similar approaches apply to marketing a mobile website and the major search engines have created channels of communication between sites and engines that mirror existing internet applications and methods of search engine optimisation to help mobile sites gain recognition. [Read On]

Every time Google adjusts its service or releases a new programme, the worldwide web community begins a grieving process for what they see as the death of SEO. It happened earlier in the year when the Mayday algorithm hit long-tail traffic, and again with the recent launch of Google Instant. [Read On]

Apps are becoming big in the mobile internet market, really big. This fact was underlined recently as behemoth Amazon threw their hat into the ring with a, necessarily vague, announcement that they intend to set up a mobile apps service. [Read On]

Some of us are seeing a blue arrow pointing to the top Google search result. It looks like this and frankly looks more annoying than anything else. [Read On]