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Location Location. Is ‘Search’ Part of Your Core Business?

The Internet has been with us for at while now. We hear stories about how 500 million people are members of sites like Facebook and more impressively how that ‘customer’ base has been built in just a few years. Nevertheless, there are still many businesses who don’t prioritise the internet as a source of revenue, who have been conditioned to think that a company’s web presence is a job for the guy in IT or that agency that charges more than the lawyers. This week I have seen headlines in traditional media with headlines like ‘Why you should consider Internet marketing’ as if it was still the bleeding edge of promotional activity – as if there was some reason why you might not do internet marketing. Functions that are fundamental to business are still being marginalised internally and that provides

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I Now Know I Know Almost Nothing About Search.

Published by in search on July 21st, 2010

Those of you following my Twitter feed may have noticed that there has been an increase in references to search and search engine optimisation (SEO) recently. I’m currently working as a marketing consultant to a company that understands search better than most – who have created a suite of tools to help companies ‘do search the Google way’ and achieve better page rankings, increase traffic and do more business. It wasn’t until I started looking at the services offered, that I realised how little I really understood about search despite its increasing importance. Given that consumer journeys are changing rapidly thanks to almost pervasive internet connectivity, search is probably not given the priority or resource it deserves in most businesses. One of the reasons might be that search is full of jargon and complicated ‘black box’ processes that are almost

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