Bingle launch a new site

Bingle the great new Search Engine which combines search results from both Bing and Google has been redesigned and relaunched with a new attractive design and logo so now it's even better.  Check it out at Bingle

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Bing, Google, now Bingle. You must try it!!

Can't make up your mind which is the better search engine? Impressed by the results you've seen when you've used Bing but still loyal to the big G.  Me too. 

But now the answer to our payers!  Some genius has managed to create a search engine which combines both Google and Bing and has called it (no prizes for guessing) Bingle.

I love it; try it out here:  http://bingle.nu

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P.S. I quite like Bing Now

As the title says, I've decided I quite like Bing now as they've placed my website as the highest ranking Digital Marketing Agency in the East Midlands. 

We've been at the top of Google for some time (and for the West Midlands too) but it's nice to see Microsoft send us to the top as well.

And as I say, unsurprisingly, I have started to view their search engine that much more positively as a result. 

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New Michael Jackson Websites after Death

Apparently, even before Michael Jackson's death was officially announced, people began registering domain names and URLs including the words Michael Jackson, Jackson, Jacko, Dead Death, Memorial, Memorium.  

The speed with which this was carried out makes you wonder if these were fans (unlikely) or businesses with an eye for a quick profit.  As we know, selling domain names on to other people can be a very profitable business. 

I wonder how many of these names will ever be used as official sites or not.  I also wonder how much money cyber-squatters can potentially make.  

It seems to me that however many URLs are taken there is always a way to create another imaginative domain name for your business. Take for example Oford University with its www.ox.ac.uk address or Cambridge with its www.cam.ac.uk address.

Are the cyber-squatters just wasting their time? Well, much as I (sometimes) admire their initiative I get the feeling they are. 

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16 ways to improve your presence on Twitter and promote your business

1. Only Tweet about things that interest you. 
   
2. There is some debate about the busiest time for Twitter but most evidence points to the hours of 10am to 4pm so post your Tweets during these hours.  This may change, of course, but if it does I’ll try to keep you informed.
3. Say something that will be of interest and value to other people.
4. Broadcast news about yourself or your business.
5. Ask people for advice; you’ll be surprised how many helpful people there are out there.
6. Be subtle but use your keywords whenever possible for example in your one line biography.
7. Tweet regularly but not too often ( a few times a day is good; a few times an hour might be getting a bit obsessive – in my opinion).
8. If you say something controversial, people will be more likely to respond but if it’s just plain offensive they won’t be responding in a positive way.  A comment like “That Michael Jackson ‘ghost’ on TV is surely a fake” would be a good example and should merit a response or two.
9. Link to Twitter from other media e.g. Emails (in your sign off blurb), websites, Facebook etc.
10. Run a poll; this doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just ask people their opinions and keep a record.
11. Search for people interested in the same thing as you and follow them; they may follow you as well.
12. Check who’s following you and make contact with them.
13. Publish news about vacancies in your business.
14. Publish news before and after an event.
15. Point to useful resources that you can offer people (like this list –hopefully!
16. Have a conversation; imagine you are writing to a friend, hopefully you soon will be.

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Just How Many Websites need SEO?

I was wondering today just how many sites in the world need SEO.

Google announced in 2008 that it had indexed over 1 trillion unique URL's.  

Now if we use the percentage I have heard, that at least 70% of all websites need SEO of a varying degree, this means there are 700 million websites out there for us SEOs to work on.

Does anyone have any more accurate statistics than this?

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Bing! Bing! Google

So what do we all think of Bing then?

Personally, I don't think Google needs to be too concerned just yet but I'm sure Microsoft will be throwing shed-loads of money at the project so it could go stratospheric quite quickly.

All I know is, at the moment, it likes my site http://www.marketingcontent.co.uk a lot less than Google does.  The site regularly appears on the first page with the big G but not for Bing .... yet.  

I am not too concerned about this as Google is, and let's be honest probably always will be, the world's Search Engine of choice.  I do wonder, however, if the methods that we would consider to be traditional SEO might be affected by this new search engine in the future. 

For the time being I, for one, will still be concentrating on keeping Google happy but I wonder if anyone (other than Microsoft employees) has a different opinion?

By the way, Microsoft employees are welcome to reply but I'm guessing you might be a bit biased towards your product, with good reason.

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Long Live SEO!

SEO is all the rage right now and long may it continue to be so.  

For the uninitiated amongst you (although to be honest that's probably a low number because of the article's title) SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, or the US equivalent with a Z, as the spell checker is reminding me.

A whole industry has grown up around SEO and it is certainly a very buzzy area at the moment but just how long will this remain the case?  Will web designers in the future still doggedly refuse to optimise their sites effectively, allowing us SEOs to work our magic afterwards.  

Alternatively will SEO become a no brainer for all web designers and be included as a standard feature?

Somehow I suspect that the former scenario is more likely and the majority of websites will still perform less efficiently in search results than they could.

I wonder what my fellow bloggers and SEOs think on that subject.

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