A newly found ‘hack’ is doing it’s rounds on blogs, forums and social networking websites today. The trick involves altering the URL slightly on a Google search to retrieve so-called “real-time” results. You can tailor the results to be to a specific time frame, but is it really real-time?
I’m now back in work after a great weekend which involved travelling up to Leeds for the Think Visibility conference. It was a great venue (albeit a little tempting being in a casino!), there were some fantastic speakers and it was good to finally meet some people I had spoken to online over the last few months. I just thought I’d do a quick roundup of each of the talks I attended while I was there.
OK it may be a bit of a blanket statement, but it seems a lot of web designers are trying their hand at SEO, and doing it badly. Many tips on the Internet encourage web designers to begin the optimisation process from the ground up, and this can be a great process… if done correctly. I’ve decided to list a couple of SEO techniques that I’ve come across over the last few months. These techniques have been implemented by web designers as part of a search engine optimisation service on client websites.
If you check Google today you may notice things are a little different. Keeping with the simplistic look, Google have increased the size of the seach box, along with the text when you type (including suggestions). The latest post on the Google blog explains that the small changes symbolise their focus on search, and should help users to view queries much more clearly.
Recently I’ve come across lots of different articles about Twitter, and how to use it “properly” in order to help get more followers. There are obviously different reasons that people use Twitter, but some of the guidelines being set are actually quite helpful if people take the time to read them. As I touched on during my last Twitter post, it is actually very different from Facebook, and that got me thinking: how do you use your Twitter account?
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