Has Facebook found what It has been Searching for?
Facebook has, for a while, been trying to work out how it can translate it huge unique user base, currently 32 million in the UK, into useful, profitable and enterprising information. Useful – because people’s personal preferences for a specific product or service, aligned with information about their background and social allegiances, culminate into something [...]
READ MORE10 ways of dressing your site up for success
When planning and executing a new web site, the basic starting point for me from a creative point of view, is that the finished product must be something I haven’t seen before. Also, it has to be something I have no mixed feelings about. I need to look at it as if it was the [...]
READ MORESEO Take Aways From The Content Marketing Show 2012
Chelsea Blacker (@ChelseaBlacker) spoke about “Evergreen Content: The Art of Recycling Resources” and I would like to reiterate/elaborate some of the things she said for those who weren’t able to attend. Reusing content can provide quick wins for companies, but where do you find content to reuse? Here are some of the ways that were [...]
READ MOREGoogle Shopping & Product Listing Ads: How it is changing how this will impact your 2013 paid search budget planning
If you are a retailer or advertise on behalf of a retailer, where selling products through Google Shopping is an integral part of your acquisition strategy read on, or be ready to see your sales plummet. Google Shopping is changing as we know it and it is imperative to ensure your business is prepared. Currently [...]
READ MOREGoogle’s Disavow Tool: gift from the gods… or poisoned chalice?
We of the SEO industry are always interested in what’s cooking over at Google HQ, and the recent emergence of its ‘Disavow Tool’ has certainly attracted a good deal of attention from the community… but frankly (some might say) it’s been a while coming! From the point Google unleashed its Penguin algorithm, the linking paradigm [...]
READ MORENew Google Innovations to accelerate your Search Campaign performance!
The world of Paid Search is a fast evolving one. If you don’t keep track of new developments in Paid Search, you can quickly find yourself scratching your head at competitors’ fancy ad formats, whilst watching your campaign metrics falter. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone so I have put together some of the latest [...]
READ MOREUK Search Awards 2012 – Industry Recognition for work at Barracuda Digital
Today is the UK Search Awards ceremony at the Emirates Stadium and it is indeed a special day for us here at Barracuda Digital. We are delighted for being shortlisted TWICE in the “Best Innovation in Search” category due to two of our proprietary tools that we developed to support our PPC and SEO teams. [...]
READ MOREHow Google’s Ad Rotation can improve your Paid Search conversion rate!
But Wait… What is Ad Rotation? Before we get too carried away it is worth explaining what exactly ad rotation is. Ad rotation is a setting that enables you to customise the way in which your adverts appear on Google. Some ads are more successful than others. We know this and for accounts that we [...]
READ MOREPanguin Tool: Google Analytics with Google updates
So what’s a Panguin? Have Barracuda Digital diversified from on-line marketing into gene splicing and vivisection? Is this the chronicling of a diabolical experiment Dr. Moreau would be proud of? In a word… no. But what we have created (in conjunction with SEOmoz’s Google Algorithm Change History) is an insightful way to look at your [...]
READ MOREVisualisation of Google’s Panda and Penguin Updates
Let’s be honest, Google’s algorithm changes are VERY interesting for the SEO community. But presenting this information in a visually appealing way for the non-SEOs calls for some serious design planning and wizardry. Hat’s off to SEOmoz for producing this very detailed timeline of Google’s Change History. Though I think many will agree it’s not [...]
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