Young people’s EU election blog declared a success
A blog that was set up to encourage young people to vote in the European parliamentary elections has been declared a huge success. The Think About It blogging competition, which targeted voters aged 18-25, received more than 2.7 million hits …
Website writer triumphs at discovery of one millionth English word
A website writer has claimed that the English language now has one million words. Paul Payack is the chief word analyst of the Global Language Monitor, which accepts as a word any coinage that enjoys sufficiently wide usage. According to …
75% of UK homes will be online by end of year
New research published by Ofcom today predicts that 75% of UK households will be online by the end 2009. Currently, 70% of UK adults have internet access at home: the remaining 30% fall into two main groups – the self-excluded …
Recession requires changes to keyword analysis
PPC management agencies have gone back to the drawing board when it comes to keyword analysis. They are noticing a shift in the keywords that are driving consumer online spending habits. Siddharth Shah of Efficient Frontier, for example, has noticed …
Battle of the search engines
“Googling” may have become a verb in its own right, but that isn’t stopping other search engines from trying to steal the Internet giant’s crown. Yahoo and Microsoft, which handle 20.4% and 8.2% of all Internet search queries respectively, are …
Keyword analysis cast in new light
Two American professors have released the results of a study which challenges the notion that the top Google Adwords positions are necessarily the most profitable for the advertiser. Could the nature of keyword analysis be about to change? Google Adwords …
To blog or not to blog?
We’ve put together a little survey for UK businesses in order to find out who’s blogging and how often they’re doing it. The survey has been designed to help inform us about people’s views on business blogging. We want to …
E-readers: the iPods of the printed word?
Will the e-reader become to books what the iPod is to CDs? The bookshop Borders has rolled out its new ebook service in the UK and Amazon has released a supersize version of its Kindle DX e-reader, just three months …
New words for content writers
Could web writing soon be transformed by a plethora of new terminology? For example, if I were to publish an online article in which I claimed to be a “nonebrity” would you know what I was talking about? Apparently it …
The end of free SEO content?
Online publishers are starting to think Rupert Murdoch was right: the “free” web is dead. The global recession has caused advertising revenues to dry up and publishers of SEO content are having to stretch their brains to think how they …
