Google has made an update to search so that when you are signed in to your Google+ account, you will now get personalised search results from people you are connected with through Google Plus. This means photos, status updates and comments from your friends will now have prominence in Google Search. The best way to [...]

One area that I focus a lot of time to (on this site and others) is SEO and my overall search engine ranking. I really do believe search engine marketing and social media marketing go hand in hand with each other. Analyse your websites SEO and look at the following 7 critical points to SEO [...]

So you want more ReTweets? Want more Social Juice? Google and Bing now add weight to Twitter profiles which get lots of ReTweets – this is social authority, and you want it. Here is our Top 10 Tips to get ReTweeted: Have a clear profile picture of your face. Make sure this is a quality [...]

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is now out of beta. Bing and Yahoo7 have struck a deal to power Yahoo Searches in Australia – if you run a web search on Yahoo.com.au (au.yahoo.com) this is now powered by Bing. Therefore your Bing SEO is more important than ever. If you visit www.bing.com it is now localised [...]

Microsoft has released their Q1 results for FY 2012, showing continued business and consumer growth across the Microsoft product lines. Key Stats of Interest: – Since the release of Windows 7 in 2009, more than 450 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold. – Windows 8 will very much have an ‘App based’ layout [...]

I am always interested to hear the news from Microsoft, after all they have been one of the leaders and forefront of technology for over 30 years. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO is always particularly enthusiastic and exciting on stage. Steve goes on to talk about various Microsoft products, Windows 8, Xbox, Windows Phones and Bing. [...]

If you are an active web-marketer or digital media professional, when surfing the web you probably want some detailed metrics about the sites you are visiting on the fly – particularly information on how popular/established the websites are. Metrics you may find useful could include: – Google PageRank – Alexa Rank – Yahoo Link count [...]

Bing has been evolving it’s social search, mainly because they enjoy a close integration with both Twitter and Facebook. Bing has introduced a new feature whereby you can search Bing Maps for a particular location, and see Tweets in real time occurring in a close proximity. For example I had a search for Sydney and [...]

If you are a webmaster and have submitted your site to the Bing Webmaster section – they have recently sent out a Survey to everyone signed up to Bing Webmaster tools. Basically Microsoft is looking for your thoughts on the Bing webmaster product, what you like about it, what needs to be improved and any [...]

Ok, so this may not be new news to you that Social Media sharing impacts how a URL ranks in search engines. I was checking my rankings in Google today and wanted to make sure I was still ranking for previous keywords I noted down. One particular keyword search I’m interested in is: Social Media [...]

It’s been a little while since we looked at the Search Engine market shares in Australia. We reported some figures in April and wanted to check now and see if there has been any movement. According to the gs.statcounter website these are the Australian market share figures for July 2011: Google – 94.02% Bing - 3.87% Yahoo [...]

If you want to get any sort of traffic from the Search Engines, knowing how they work is extremely important. Sometimes we get too consumed in the finer details we forget about the basics. Here are 3 fundamental and simple SEO tips you should take note of: 1. Relevancy If you talk about a particular [...]

Bing has upgraded their Webmaster Tools site with a number of enhancements for site owners to take advantage of. If you are not aware – Bing has their on Webmaster Tool site in which website owners can submit an XML sitemap and check our particular search engines stats for their site index in Bing, and [...]

Google has rolled out some updates to its Mobile Search platform in Australia, now taking advantage of localising user content and prominent positioning of Google Places. Australia, USA and many countries now have an updated Google Mobile site with simple navigation for accessing Google Places. Look at the below screenshot on Google.com.au showing my location [...]

If you want to maximise the traffic coming from Search Engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo have a look at these tips we have put together to improve your website search engine rankings. You may think you are following standard SEO best practices, but there may be more things you can do to get some [...]

So we have had a busy May and it’s now time to collate our monthly Social Media statistics wrap up of what’s happening in Australia. For your information you can find all the statistics we are collating on our Social Media Stats page. Of course – should you have any of your own stats you [...]