Finally, it has been confirmed, in a roundabout way, that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter do have certain value in a search engine optimisation campaign.
A highly reported question and answer series with representatives of Google and Bing has thrown up some useful little nuggets of information. For instance, Google, in particular, credits data found in Twitter's "firehose".
As Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg launched the social-networking site's e-mail service in San Francisco recently he told reporters and analysts that online messaging needs to be modernised.
In a survey conducted by the Marketing Society and the Royal Mail, marketing heads were asked which 3 channels they thought would be the most important in the coming financial year. SEO was the top result, chosen by 45% of respondants, closely followed by social media (42%) and word of mouth (37%)
Details have begun emerging as to why Burst.net were ordered by the FBI to shut down over 70,000 blogs on a free blogging platform called Blogetery. Latest rumours state that material on some of the blogs included messages from Osama Bin Laden, detatils of how to make bombs and explosives and lists of US citizens to be targeted for assassination by al Qaeda.
If you are a Wordpress user, you can now enable the 'Post by Voice' option under the 'My Blogs' tab. This will give you a phone number and pin code which allows you to call your blog by phone. The audio file is then automatically posted to your blog for your subscribers to listen to.
The Google Webmaster Central blog has announced that it has rolled out, across all data centres a new indexing system called Caffeine, which they claim will provide fresher results from a much larger index.
Supermarkets are being advised to seize a significant marketing opportunity - SEO for retailers is likely to attract more customers willing to buy from shops and stores with an online presence.
