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For those of you who aren’t familiar with how search engines rank websites, one of the driving factors behind getting good natural listings are the links from other websites pointing to your domain. If you are thinking of starting a link building campaign here are a few pearls of wisdom… Should I consider paying for […]

Google unveiled Chrome, the company’s first desktop web browser on Tuesday, following the news that a printed comic book revealing details about the previously unconfirmed browser had landed in the hands of a blogger – who duly uploaded the material onto the internet. Delaying the release of the link to download the software (it later […]

Google have rolled out a ‘new’ feature which will be familiar to anyone who has taken a peek at Google Labs over the last couple of years. Google Suggest enhances the standard Google search bar with further search queries generated by the data centre. From Google Labs: “Google Suggest is a feature that analyses what you’re […]

Google are at it again! Yet another useful feature has been added to Google’s Webmaster Tools. The official Google webmaster blog explains how they are keen to help webmasters retain visitors once they hit your 404 error page. By inserting a piece of JavaScript code which can be accessed via Tools > Enhance 404 Pages, it […]

Watch out job recruiters are about! Recently I was reading a really interesting article on “Facing up to the Talent Crunch” which discusses how companies can take advantage of Facebook to enhance their recruitment efforts. The author states that “HR companies are looking for ways to successfully leverage the site for recruitment”. Fascinating, but is […]

This week Google launched their new ‘insight’ tool – and amazingly insightful it is too. I am absolutely hooked. Okay, I am a bit of a stato at heart so these sorts of tools really interest me. You will see in the following screenshot that I’ve run some SEO agency-related search phrases. Within seconds you […]

Are you paying for a good SEO service? It’s far too easy for SEO agencies to blind new or existing clients with science, random terminology and techie talk. Our SEO team at Coast Digital apply a best practice approach to SEO, and like all the other services we provide we make sure our work can […]

Google have recently published a new budget tool within AdWords. This replaces their old system which just gave you a figure for their recommended daily budget. The new tool is presented in a much clearer graph format and clearly highlights how much traffic you could be missing out on. Here is a screen shot of the […]

Over the past couple of months I’ve been tracking the fallout from the changes made by Google to their trademark policy. A couple of you have posted comments on our blog about this issue – Google trademark decision: 1 month on. Thanks for your responses; I’ll try and give some quick answers. A comment posted […]

Where would we be without the web? Ok, ok, I know that statement’s a bit of a cliché but seriously, I still marvel at having the world more or less at my fingertips via the internet. The memory of what life was like before is all but fading away. I’ve just returned from a fantastic […]