A couple of minutes ago I received an email Titled “Important notice – please cooperate.” The email appeared to be sent from Google, as the name in the FROM field read “Google Adwords <AdWords@google.com>”
For some strange reason though, Thunderbird- my default email client, warned that the message might be a SCAM .

Needless to say that [...]

With regards to Africa, Ghana has been a “pioneer” in so many ways- from being the first African country to gain independence from colonial powers, to being the first African country south of the Sahara to host the “first” African-American president of the United States of America.
Needless to say that Barack Obama visit to Ghana [...]

Microsoft unleashes Bing… it starts a chain reaction… everyone’s talking… they roll out millions in advertising /marketing funds… embark on mass media campaigns… now everyone’s hearing about Bing… more (and more) people actually begin “checking it out”. Okay, that’s basically where we are now.
As with all other thing that hugely affects our lives, [...]

The introduction of Bing to the search scene has generated “a lot of buzz” around the web. Actually, that is an understatement because Bing has only been publicly available for just a couple days, yet the ripple effect it’s creating is already assuming seismic proportions.
Everyone seems to be catching the “Bing fever”. I recently stumbled [...]

Microsoft’s Live Search has just gone BING!! The Bing search engine, now publicly available at bing.com, is the latest roll out from Microsoft, and was unveiled by CEO Steve Ballmer at the
D Conference on the 28th of May.

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So what’s with the name Bing anyhow?
Well, it’s all in the branding really.  Microsoft says;
We needed a [...]

I have often pondered over this, as I’m sure many other SEOs out there have too.  According to Google’s Matt Cutts, the short answer is ….. NO!! Well (as he puts it), “at least not right now”. Matt did however point out an obvious fact though-
If a site takes so long to load that Googlebot [...]

Whenever Search Engine Marketing is mentioned, terms which readily come to mind (apart from Google that is) include;  meta tags/page content optimization, Link Building, and Site Submission.
Most people tend to focus more on Link Building. Of course you can’t blame them- as it is a well known fact that Google’s ranking algorithm (Page Rank or [...]

2008 saw a number of significant changes in IT trends globally, the most distinctive being the rise of social media in 2008. Chris Crum of Web Pro News takes a look at the Year in Social Media. It is quite obvious that there was a lot of activity in the world of social media.
There were [...]

Okay! It’s official- Ranking as we know it is “DEAD“.
The official release of Google’s all new Search Wiki marks the end of Page Ranking as we know it. Basically, Search wiki allows users personalize their search results, meaning- users now have a way to; “customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results“.
The [...]