Search and Social Media News 26th August 2011 | Social Media Blog

Search and social media news: weekly round-up 26th August 2011 In this week’s round-up: Foursquare reigns supreme, Twitter agrees to meet the government over social media rioting and Man U get to the top of the social media league. Facebook checks out of Places feature Facebook has lost the geosocial networking battle to Foursquare. The [...]

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Search: Google v Facebook | SEO Blog

Facebook is a social media site and Google is, predominantly, a search engine.  Right? Well things are changing, or at least Facebook is trying to change them. The latest Hitwise figures show that in the UK, Facebook dominates the social media landscape with 50% of site visits recorded, with Google searches accounting for 91% of [...]

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Is Social Media responsible for the Riots in London?

Like many in London and across the rest of the country I have been watching TV, listening and reading conversations across twitter, facebook and several other social media channels with a combination of amazement, anger, frustration and disgust. This has not just been about finding out about what is and has happened but how social [...]

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I love Patrick Cox but I am not so sure about Google

While carrying out some SEO research today, I completed a series of searches on a particular brand of shoes “patrick cox shoes”. Imagine my surprise when I received the following results. Number 1 was a hosting company called www.dmgi.co.uk.   Now I am intrigued. I have never visited this site before? its not a local [...]

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Facebook competitions: do you stick to the rules?

This post clarifies Facebook Promotion Guidelines: how to stick to the rules if you want to run a competition on Facebook.

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