Archive for October, 2008
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Friday, October 31st, 2008Well, it has been an eventful Halloween here at PushON, this morning we found an advertisement in the Metro for Big Snap Search, another Live Search bribery scheme aimed at capturing more search traffic by incentivising its search engine. Big Snap Search lets you search Live Search and automatically draws two cards at random, if [...]
Jonathan Ross Show Renamed
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008Following the suspension of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand the BBC have renamed Friday Night with Johnathon Ross…
MDDA Live Streaming
Monday, October 27th, 2008MDDA have organised the Amb:IT:ion project’s Digital Content Re:Connected event, which is a live blogging event today.
Here’s the live streaming video:
Watch live video from MDDA on Justin.tv
And if you miss any of it, you can view the archive.
And for the live blogging aspect, you can visit the Manchester DDA blog here, for all blog, Flickr [...]
Squeeze Every Last Penny Out Of Your Marketing Budget
Friday, October 24th, 2008Justin from Ion interactive has written a great post entitled ‘Lift in lead-gen search marketing‘. He talks about how targeting your audience effectively, being specific with your offer and asking for a fair amount of form filling effort can lead to higher conversion rates - making the most of your marketing budget.
My two favourite quotes [...]
21st Century Transport Site Launches
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008We are pleased to announce the launch of www.21centurytransport.com which aims to promote the potential effect of improved transport in Manchester and the rest of the region. Manchester is currently mulling over congestion charging and a proposed £3bn investment in its transport infrastructure. The 21st Century Transport website contains a short film about the potential [...]
Fab New Features In Google Analytics
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Very strange timing, but Mark wrote a post with his Google Analytics wish list yesterday, he then found that Google had been working on some new features that he mentioned.
The new features are in Beta, and will be applied to everyone’s accounts in the next few weeks.
I can’t wait for these to go live. It [...]
Analytics Annotations
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Like many webmasters and online marketers around the world we work with Google Analytics on a daily basis however the system does have some short falls. These shortfalls often spark ideas in ones mind and recently I came up with an idea which I think would be very useful. You may have noticed the recent [...]
Beauty & The Geek Night
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Calling all Manchester bloggers and digital marketing enthusiasts. Heaven Spa (one of our clients) is holding a prestige event entitled ‘Beauty & The Geeks’. The night is an excellent opportunity for people to network and get a world’s first viewing of Heaven Spa’s new mouse finger massage treatment. The treatment helps relax computer users hands [...]
Does Social Media Advertising Work
Monday, October 20th, 2008A key part of my role at PushOn is to look at Social Media optimisation and engage in relevant conversations for my clients. Although there are some great strategies out there for creating and engaging with communities I have recently been intrigued by social media advertising. More importantly I wanted to know which platforms work [...]
Google Webmaster Tools Updates
Friday, October 17th, 2008Earlier this month Google quietly released an update to webmaster tools that allowed site owners to see the source of broken inbound links. This is very useful as you can check that your internal links are pointing to the correct files easily and also check that external websites aren’t pointing to non-existent pages. Updating internal [...]
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