Very quick post, but Investp are now running the second year of their online marketers of the year poll. I was quite surprised, but very honored to be nominated amongst some great guys – including fellow SEOptimise blogger Tadeusz Szewczyk. Last years vote was very popular and I’d encourage that SEOptimise readers take part in this and of course any votes for myself or Tad would be greatly appreciated! © SEOptimise. Signup for the SEOptimise monthly newsletter and hire us for Search Engine Marketing!Vote for the Top 100 Online Marketers of 2009 Related posts: 10 Non-Google   read more

In today’s weekly Twitter Friday column I want to compare the 3 most common retweet buttons for WordPress blogs. A retweet button is a button that not only retweets the particular post it was clicked one but also displays how many people tweeted that link: On click these buttons also lead to a list of those who tweeted the link. I have compared 5 categories: data retention – how long does the service store the tweet/retweets so that you can access them customization – in as far are you allowed t change the appearance of both button and the retweets URL shortener/s – which   read more

Today we’re helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide, and in more than forty languages. Now when you search using Google, we will be able to better provide you with the most relevant results possible. For example, since I always search for [recipes] and often click on results from epicurious.com, Google might rank epicurious.com higher on the results page the next time I look for recipes. Other times, when I’m looking for news about Cornell University’s sports teams, I search for [big red]. Because I frequently click   read more

This is part of a regular series of posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed. This week, we’re pleased to bring you a number of great enhancements to the way you search. From the announcement of our new minimalist fade-in homepage to the new magazine layout of images in Universal Search, this week was filled with many highly visible changes. There are also more subtle changes like automatic spelling correction and our extended version of personalized search, both of which will enhance the speed   read more

Microsoft released an apology note for the outage of its decision engine. The outage which last for about thirty minutes took place due to some configuration changes made for conducting internal testing said Microsoft. Bing’s outage prevented users to get to the site, and if they could, their queries were returning incomplete results page. According to Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s online Service Division “As soon as the issue was detected, the change was rolled back, which caused the site to return to normal behavior. Unfortunately the detection and rollback took about half   read more

Google acquires AppJet to give better real time collaboration to its Google Wave service. The technologies and creativity of AppJet’s EtherPad would now be added to Google for polishing its Google Wave. AppJet build Etherpad , a powerful real-time collaboration similar to the Google Docs text editor. With Etherpad users can collaborate in true real-time, with virtually no delay. Google Wave launched recently is a combination of instant messaging powered with e-mailing and files uploading. EtherPad has the functional ability which let multiple users edit the same document at the same time. This   read more

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has told BBC Radio 4’s – The Report program that the claims arising out of the leaked e-mails were serious and IPCC will investigate them as its top priority. However, he is also denying any possibility of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body. “The processes in the IPCC are so robust, so inclusive, that even if an author or two has a particular bias it is completely unlikely that bias will find its way into the IPCC report,”   read more

ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN), a leading global supplier of high-performance, energy-efficient silicon solutions, has announced two new highly integrated driver ICs that will drive high-current motors with reduced component count and board space in stepper motor-based applications. The new AMIS-30532 and AMIS-30542 micro-stepping stepper motor drivers have high current capabilities with integrated H-bridges, and are ideal for motion control designs in automotive, industrial, office equipment, medical, security and marine applications   read more

OS groups are under pressure to provision and maintain multiple versions and variants of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other OS platforms — but, today that achieves flexibility at the expense of control. Application, middleware, security and other specialized requirements spawn new platform variants that create “complexity hell,” making ongoing management a major challenge. It leads to duplicate effort in maintaining common OS components, inefficient and fragile update and patching, and transparency issues that put compliance at risk. In an age of flat or declining resources and pressure for customization   read more

I very rarely write about individual website’s which are making mistakes online, but looking at the ASK restaurants website yesterday I was very surprised to see how a well-known UK brand has paid little or no attention to their search strategy. Being a popular restaurant chain there are many opportunities to attract potential customers on the web and at the moment ASK do not appear to be taking advantage of these. Quick Restaurant SEO Tips for ASK This seems to be a perfect example of common mistakes website’s can make online. So seeing that there’s so many missed opportunities   read more