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Optimise Issue 10 – Out Now!
24, Nov 2011We know you’re an avid fan of the FirstFound Blog, but have you taken the time to read our regular online magazine?
Mobile Internet Usage On The Up (Again)
1, Sep 2011If you’re between the age of 16 and 24, it’s highly likely that you’re reading this post from a mobile device – according to the latest findings from the Office of National Statistics. But it’s not just the Facebook and Twitter generation who are rushing to get online while they’re on the go, as the [...]
Google Launches Mega Sitelinks
18, Aug 2011If you search for a brand name on Google today, you’ll see a significant change to the way Google lays out its results page. Rather than the tiny, unintrusive sitelinks we’ve all come to know and love, Google are confronting us with huge sitelinks that dominate the page. From now on, if Google thinks you’re [...]
Yahoo Giving Up in Europe?
2, Aug 2011It’s been coming for a while, but tomorrow marks the end of Yahoo’s attempts to crack the search engine market in Europe. As of August 3rd 2011, Yahoo will stop providing search results all over Europe, instead showing organic results provided by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The only data Yahoo will provide are paid adverts, [...]
Companies Looking to Secure .xxx Domains
19, Jul 2011Domains have hit the news a few times this year; with customisable suffixes being announced while whole groups of sites were being unceremoniously dumped from Google’s index. But the biggest domain story of last year was the launch of .xxx domains. And now it looks like even reputable brands want in on the triple X [...]
Google Panda Update, 24 Hours On
13, Apr 2011It’s been over a day since the long awaited Google ‘Panda’ Update was unleashed upon the English-speaking world. That means the first lot of testing is in, and SEOs accross the country are starting to share their findings on sites like Twitter. FirstFound’s Views So far, we’re not seeing any major issues on client’s sites [...]
One Advertising Pound in Four is Spent Online
29, Mar 2011One quarter of all the advertising budgets in the UK is spent on online marketing, such as SEO and PPC. Online advertising spend has increased by over 12% since last year, with British companies spending over four billion pounds per year on reaching new clients through the internet. That means that online marketing is now [...]
Google have announced that as of February 2011, verified webmasters (those with a Webmaster Tools account) will be able to link their Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics accounts together. This will provide webmasters with more information on who’s visiting their websites, and how visitors find them. So to help you get started, the FirstFound Blog [...]
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Google Downgrades Google’s Listing For Breaking Google’s Rules
5, Jan 2012the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links.