At the start of last month I did a talk for Network Northwest about incorporating online marketing into your overall strategy. I was intrigued to see that the feeling around the room was that social networking, search, blogging and video were all quite separate from the activities of traditional marketing. Many of the SMB owners [...]

Supporting what we have long known at City Tower, Google has followed up comments made by Matt Cutts in November by confirming that site speed is now a ranking factor in its SEO algorithm. According to a blog post published on Friday, faster sites not only improve user experience and reduce operating costs, but now [...]

Google recently added forum results to its search listings. The aim is to include more social media in its results mix. But is it a good idea? Well they say variety is the spice of life and it terms of delivering a wide scope of options, including social media would be a good thing. This [...]

UKFast’s contest to find the next big ebusiness will soon kick-off and this means that the deadline for applications is rapidly approaching. Anyone with a great idea for an online business can get the chance to benefit from six months of free hosting from the UK’s fastest hosting provider by entering the UKFastTrack. However, they [...]

To be a success online you need many things – a great idea, determination, a little capital etc. But top of your list has to be Google Love. Trying to grow an online business without it would be like trying to hold back the tide – impossible. But what is Google Love? Google Love: (Goo [...]

Our exciting competition to help launch the next big online business success has begun in earnest with interest already reaching fever pitch. The UKFastTrack offers budding entrepreneurs a golden opportunity to give their business idea the best possible start by providing £15,000 worth of top-class hosting support. This includes the use of our revolutionary new [...]

UKFast is at the British Formula 1 Grand Prix today for the first of three days of fun with clients. However, it’s not just about enjoying top class motor sport. The fastest racing cars in the world also form the perfect backdrop to UKFast’s launch of the fastest servers available in the UK. Today UKFast’s [...]

The inevitable tie up between property selling and Google Street View is now with us. I have come across my first press release from an estate agency claiming to have implemented Street View on its website. whitehotproperty.co.uk, “the UK’s only dedicated repossession and part exchanged property website”, has announced that it has “added” Google Street [...]

Google has launched its remarkable Street View service of British cities to a mixed reaction. Supporters of the technology marvel at its cleverness and talk about how the service can revolutionise how people research cities to visit and houses to buy. Opponents argue it invades individual privacy and is a potential security hazard. And then [...]

New research from Brand Republic has found that the British public are prepared to have their browsing monitored to facilitate a more personalised service from the search engine providers. Apparently Google intends to monitor user habits in order to target ads and this has alarmed privacy advocates who believe such acts are too much of [...]