Monthly archive for August 2010

Google Preview Chrome Web Store

Wednesday, den 18. August 2010

Gamescom is currently taking place over in Germany and on Monday Google were at the conference previewing Google Chrome Web Store and its gaming credentials. It seems Google are making a big push into the gaming market, they showed off both Chromes Gaming possibilities and the advantages of it’s Chrome Web Store. They began the conference talking [...]

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Google Unveil Small Business Blog

Monday, den 16. August 2010

Google have unveiled a new Blog for Small Businesses. The new Google Small Business Blog will be a central hub for all things Internet and small business. Google will be regularly blogging tips on how to succeed with your small business on the web. This is potentially a great tool for anyone who is starting [...]

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Google Places with tags

Friday, den 13. August 2010

Google Places (formerly known as Local Business Center) has added a new feature called “Tags”. Tags are yellow markers that allow business owners to promote important aspects of their businesses.  According to Google: “Tags do not affect the rank of search results; they simply add more information when a particular user is searching” For just [...]

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Using multiple Google accounts

Friday, den 13. August 2010

Reading Google’s blog I learned that Google has released a new option that allows us to log in to several Google Accounts at once, which Google calls “Multiple Sign-in”. Google has been testing “Multiple Sign-in” for a few days, and now is being gradually implemented  for all Google Accounts. The possibility to use different Google [...]

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Tweet button officially launched by Twitter

Friday, den 13. August 2010

Yesterday Twitter announced the launch of the official tweet button, which allows users to tweet content without leaving the page they are on.  Once the tweet button is clicked a tweet box appears with an already shortened link of the page you are tweeting, then it’s just a case of adding to your tweet and [...]

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Local SEO: finding regional directories

Tuesday, den 10. August 2010

When searching for regional/local directories in different countries, one of the best ways to proceed is using the Google Maps results and then follow the below steps: Open Google in the specific language (i.e google.es) Type the keyword (i.e Museos en Madrid) Go to Google Maps results Go through the list of websites listed in [...]

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Google Acquires Slide

Monday, den 9. August 2010

On Friday, Google officially announced that they had acquired Slide – the online slide show and image hosting website for social networks. See below for a quote from the Official Google Blog: “We’re excited to announce we’ve acquired Slide, a social technology company with an extensive history of building new ways for people to connect with others across numerous [...]

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Google’s ACE……..No really, its a new tool!

Friday, den 6. August 2010

Google have been getting all excited on their blog about a their new free application AdWords Campaign Experiments (ACE). ACE allows us to test and measure the impact of changes to our keywords, bids, ad groups and placements …………. and by ‘us’ i do in fact mean ‘as always anyone in the US’.  hmmph!! Anyway, partial [...]

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Google to Loosen UK Trademark Policy

Friday, den 6. August 2010

As of September 14th, Google will be changing its UK, Ireland, and Canada trademark policy to permit some advertisers to use third-party trademarks in their ad copy, regardless of whether or not they own them or have approval from the trademark owner. The new policy will be applied to certain advertisers including resellers, information/review sites, [...]

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Android Top Selling Smartphone OS in America

Thursday, den 5. August 2010

The NDP Group in America have reported that Android is now the top selling Smartphone OS in the US. They’ve attributed this to the new handset innovations by both HTC and Motorola. Last quarter Android accounted for 33% of smartphones sold, followed up by Blackberry with 28% and Apple’s iPhone in third place with 22%. [...]

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