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Archive for October, 2008

The real costs of internet marketing with Social Media

October 29th, 2008 by Pete

Using blogs, Twitter, Face Book and the plethora of other emerging social media ‘devices’ to promote your website is without doubt a powerful new force and worth considering when planning your website’s internet marketing campaign.

Social media evangelists will exclaim loudly (and passionately as enthusiasts do) that if you create great content in the social media entities that match your target market then you have an excellent chance to attract traffic. You may even pick up some great Google PageRank’d links that will also help in your site’s overall ranking. There’s no doubt about it, social media will help your website sales, but at what cost ?

Chrome – Elegant simplicity

October 28th, 2008 by Pete

As someone who spends his day inside a browser I strongly recommend Google Chrome, their new browser.
Its simple, uncluttered and it works. What more can I say.

Well it would be nice to be able to display PageRank like I can from the Google Toolbar in IE & Firefox, although a nifty script from www.chromefans.org does provide the info in a popup window albeit a little clunky.

Anyway after years of being an IE user I think Im convinced. I think….
Hmm should I change my default browser settings to Chrome ? 

Wow that’s a big commitment. 
Ill try it for a few more days but Im tending to think I will…

Paid search tips and traps

October 28th, 2008 by Pete

So you’ve been telemarketed by yet another paid search provider and it sounds like an excellent marketing investment (and it is!).

But how do you decide which paid search services your business needs, and importantly how do you decide which service provider to use ?  Could you DIY paid search ? Not sure? Read on.

Adding your business and site to Google Maps

October 5th, 2008 by Pete

Adding your site to Google Maps
Google Maps entries provide high profile exposure for your business and website in Google searches.
Google tends to display Google Maps when it recognises a location within the search criteria.
e.g. a city, a street address etc

Registered Businesses that correlate with the search and location are displayed in the Google Maps element in the search results. Amazingly Google still don’t currently charge for this high profile exposure, so make sure you are taking advantage of this!