PC Mag and Google Me

Google has managed to dominate just about every field it has entered, online or otherwise. The company has a seemingly magical combination of brilliant employees, funds, and public goodwill. For some reason, however, the search giant has failed, time and time again, to get a good foothold in the world of social networking.

Back in 2004, the company launched Orkut. The site gained a good deal of popularity in India and Brazil (where it is now located), but failed to offer much competition to sites like Facebook and MySpace in other countries, including the U.S. More recently, Google launched Buzz, a Twitter-like site integrated directly into Gmail. That property has generated a good deal of negative press since its inception.

Rumor has it that the company is gearing up for another big push in the space, less than five months after the public launch of Buzz. According to Inside Facebook, three days ago, Digg founder Kevin Rose tweeted, “Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch facebook competitor very soon ‘Google Me,’ very credible source.” That tweet has since disappeared.

All heating up and all I can add is watch this space – I like Orkut, Google Buzz, Picasa and Google Apps, Places +++

If you need help feel free to call or join our Google Group for Plymouth Google Buzz Ups at the fabulous Treasury on Catherine Street, Plymouth

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• World Cup opening day fever pushed the internet to a new record. Traffic to news sites on June 11th reached over 12 million visitors per minute globally. The day’s traffic exceeded the previous record of 8.5 million visitors per minute, which was set when Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election in 2008.
  Source: Akamai as cited by CNET news, June 2010

• Three years ago, only 9% of all UK internet time was spent on social networks & blogs (this equates to 1 minute in every 11). Since 2007, this sector has grown and now accounts for nearly 23% of UK internet time – the equivalent of 1 in every 4.5 minutes.
  Source: UKOM, May 2010

• UK internet users now spend 64% more time using search engines (31 million hours per month in April 2010) than they did 3 years ago.
  Source: UKOM, May 2010

Just a quick note. Ab Fab Internet Marketing, SEO and Web Design are based in Plymouth but are happy to help business in Exeter, Torquay, Truro and Penzance areas to rank well on Google.

We do like to meet with our customers and feel this gives a great sense of trust in a pretty untrustworthy world!

Some businesses we can give a guarantee depending on goals set between us!

We are accepting three new clients on a mid to long term basis so that we can concentrate on a few businesses as opposed to a lot!

Warm Regards

David
(01752) 784262 or (07583) 199694

Search Engine Optimisation. Like PPC before it and social media after it, SEO can be a hard function to place. Ideally it crosses lines between marketing and development effortlessly and it doesn’t really matter who owns it, but between tight brains and “aha” moments we all know that “ideal” is deceptively simple.

SEO is not rocket surgery – it is a simple process which must be correct to work. Getting it correct and never giving up is the way to go for successful organic search engine rankings – mere seo alone won’t cut it!

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SEO or Search Engine Optimisaton?  Same thing only you can get your ‘phone ringing and your business higher on Google using a website design using WordPress and SEO by us for just £400

When you thing a small ad, that hardly anyone reads, in the Plymouth Herald, Exeter Express and Echo and the Bath Chronicle, costs at least, about £75 a day and that Yellow Pages Ads are in the £ x 100 0r £ x 1000s then you will realise that SEO and a decent website built using our unique design and internet marketing service at just £400 is a bargain – the return on investment is PRICELESS!

Even Gavin and Stacey mentioned about the Yellow Pages being unread and they always used Google

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* Getting free placement in Google is easy – you don’t need any kind of software
* All you need is a link from another website to your website
* Google needs to understand it is a full link to include you in it’s database (index) of websites
* You can submit your site to Google, but I think it is pointless – I have never used this method
* Some seo companies charge for ’submission’ to Google and other search engines – I wouldn’t bother
* Be wary – SEO can be a mysterious business – ensure you do not get scammed by unethical seo firms

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• The goal of SEO is to bring targeted search engine visitors to your website and ideally convert them to take some action.

• The goal of the searcher is have their problems solved, needs filled, or questions answered.

• The goal of the search engine is to show the best, most relevant website to their users — the searchers.