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The Battle of the Social Networks and Google Rebranding

July 8th, 2011
Published by Nadeem Anjum
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The Battle of the Social Networks and Google Rebranding

The search engine giant Google has been trying to infiltrate the social scene for a while and has released private user testing of it’s new social network platform called Google+. A week later we have seen a number of small movements in the social world. Facebook Launch Video Chat with Skype Partnership One of the plus points of Google+ was the ability to use the hangout feature and video chat. This week Facebook have announced a... Read: The Battle of the Social Networks and Google Rebranding

How To Track Website Page Load Speed With Google Analytics

July 1st, 2011
Published by Nadeem Anjum
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How To Track Website Page Load Speed With Google Analytics

The new version of Google Analytics has some exciting new additions to help webmasters detect problems which might adversely affect a visitor’s user experience. A major addition to the new version of Google Analytics is the page load speed reports. Page load speed appears to be an increasingly important factor for consideration when building a website, and indeed there’s talk that websites could even by penalised by the search engines if their webpages are loaded... Read: How To Track Website Page Load Speed With Google Analytics

The Google+ Social Network : Is it a Facebook competitor?

June 29th, 2011
Published by Will O'Hara
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The Google+ Social Network : Is it a Facebook competitor?

Google’s social network is finally here, sort of. You probably won’t be able to access it for a week or two – it’s in a ‘limited field trial’ – invite only (oddly Google hasn’t plastered ‘beta’ across this one – maybe they’ve finally decided to stop using the beta tag?). There’s now simply a message saying they’ve ‘temporarily exceeded capacity’. As with the Gmail launch in 2004, Google has invited a select band of users to participate with... Read: The Google+ Social Network : Is it a Facebook competitor?

Correlation between Google Farmer Update and Social Media Buzz?

March 3rd, 2011
Published by Liam Veitch
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Correlation between Google Farmer Update and Social Media Buzz?

First of all I have to say that on the whole I see the Google Farmer update as a positive change, a move towards a better quality of search, but I say “on the whole” as there is no doubt some collateral damage in the so-called ‘War on Spam’. The power of the long tail, and Google’s drum banging of its “content is king” mantra spawned a whole era of netrepreneurs that saw the correlation... Read: Correlation between Google Farmer Update and Social Media Buzz?