Posts by Neil:

28% Internet Penetration Rate Globally

06 Oct 2010 in Web Analytics

Interesting post/infographic from the Woork Up team which takes a look at Internet penetration rates across the world. The focus of the post is to show that although North America and Europe have huge adoption rates, places like the Congo, Mozambique and Burundi still have extremely low Internet penetrations rates of 0.5%. Additionally, countries such as Myanmar and Bangladesh have penetration rates of 0.2% and 0.4% respectively. Larger countries such as Russia and China come in at 43% and 31%...

Why Social Media Must Be Part of Your SEO Strategy

23 Sep 2010 in Social Media

It’s well known in SEO circles that most links created through social media are “nofollow”—and therefore don’t help sites rank higher with search engines. Some SEO professionals believe there’s no SEO benefit to developing social-media profiles at all.

Google Instant: The Impact on SEO and PPC

20 Sep 2010 in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) & web development

In the last couple of weeks, Google has tacitly launched Google Instant, an enhancement to the Google SERPS user interface where the SERP updates dynamically to show results as the user types search terms. The effect is that searchers will see results more quickly than before (where searchers would have traditionally either clicked the search button or the “enter” key).