It came as no surprise this week when online retailer Kiddicare announced it was to make big strides into the physical retail world by moving into 10 stores across the country previously inhabited by failed electronics outlet BestBuy. The brand established in 1974 actually realised true success for founders Neville and Marilyn Wright in the [...]
As Google push for personalising your search results, so local search is becoming more popular and important than ever. As we previously highlighted both Google and Bing offer free sign-up for companies to their local search systems but just being listed won’t guarantee the best results. Here’s 5 tips on how to maximise your impact: [...]
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Schools across the country have blocked Google’s YouTube from being accessed via their networks. That’s a big blip on the Google map as school’s look to combat porn and unsuitable content but also time-wasting content such as yawning cats and children biting fingers. So YouTube have come up with a solution: A new version of [...]
A new year, a new you. People write theses about SEO and page ranking and the top consultants earn thousands of pounds per day to share their knowledge, but there are a number of basic things you can be doing to tweak your site and tweak your rankings as you head into the new year. [...]
While many are focusing on the push by Google into the social media marketplace with Google+, its success in capturing browser has been somewhat overlooked. By the turn of the year Mozilla Firefox was no longer the biggest rival to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, it was Google Chrome, and the once undisputed King of the the [...]
The concept of Bring Your Own is nothing new, but in 2012 BYOD is set to change the way small business works and could possibly help the economy back on the way to recovery. BYOD of course stands for ‘Bring Your Own Device’ and with the uptake of personal smartphones and web-connected devices at a [...]
A report this week from the Broadcasting regulator ofcom, suggests that while people in the UK use the internet more often and for more purposes than those in other parts if the globe, they actually pay less for such access by comparison. Ofcom’s International Communications Market Report suggests people in the UK are more likely [...]
WordPress have launched their latest version of their blog / content-management software — 3.3 – named “Sonny” and while the visual differences may be minimal, the functionality seems much improved. Named in honour of jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, the latest version can be downloaded download or updated inside your WordPress dashboard – make sure you [...]
A new report from Creditsafe suggests that more and more people are seeing starting up their own business as a way of overcoming the present economic gloom. The figures from Creditsafe suggest 471,000 new companies started up in 2011 – up almost 20% on last year. London and the South-East were the busiest locations with [...]