Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category

… make sure you test your website. When was the last time that you gave your site a quick once over? If you’re like most website owners, it could be anything from a few hours to a few years. If it’s been a few months, then you could be missing out on leads. Changes to [...]

As Google gear up to make some changes to their Image Search, traffic data has been released showing that over a billion image searches are carried out every day. This comes as a boost for the search engine market leaders, especially as the young pretenders at Bing have increased their market share substantially. In the [...]

Long time readers of the FirstFound Blog and Optimise will know that web users are in the middle of a battle for Internet supremacy. On one side is the search giant Google, facing off against social networking leviathan Facebook. Over the past few months, Facebook has overtaken Google as the most visited site in the [...]

Despite the meme that “typing Google into Google breaks Google”, certain team members’ propensity for searching for their own names and the fact that most of the internet is made up of naked ladies, the most searched-for term on the Internet isn’t Google, Adam Ramsden or Busoms. No, it’s Justin Bieber. And that sound you [...]

We know, we know. It’s July. The sun is shining. People are wandering the streets of Manchester topless (why?). Beer gardens are full. Who’d be thinking of Christmas at a time like this? Well, you should be for starters. If you’re running an SEO campaign, you need to stop thinking about margheritas and start thinking [...]

Here at the FirstFound Blog, we’ve been predicting the rise of the “Silver Surfers” for a while. Now new research from UKOM suggests that the over-50′s are the fastest growing online group. Over the past 12 months, the number of UK internet users grew from 36.9 million to 38.8 million – and the majority of [...]

The World Cup is trying to teach you something. You might not be able to hear it yet, over the drone of the Vuvuzelas and the muttering of Mick McCarthy, but it’s speaking to you. Despite the sponsors, it’s not telling you to drink more cola, move your money to a particular bank or wear [...]

After a career at illustrious clubs such as Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy and two stints at AC Milan, David Beckham has signed a lucrative contract with another giant – Yahoo! This move is the latest in Yahoo’s $100m brand marketing campaign, and will see the England player with most advert appearances notch up [...]

Well, we’re a few hours into Google’s latest gimmick – a selection of arty backgrounds that slightly intrude on Google’s normally minimalistic homepage – and there’s alread a petition asking for it to be removed. Luckily, we’ve done some digging around, and you don’t have to have the image showing (although there is a catch). [...]

Well, it looks like the long wait is finally over. After almost a year of rumours, testing and speculation, Google has officially launched the “Caffeine” update. The new update doesn’t change Google’s ranking factors or results pages (if the official release is to be believed), but instead changes the way that pages are indexed and [...]


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