Mobile design has to walk the walk

The increasing importance of mobile search has attracted a great deal of attention from experts and other commentators. An enormous number of articles have been written about the need to adapt to the huge number of people using their smartphones to search. However, there has not been enough focus on the practicalities of mobile phone […]

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Facebook advertising under the spotlight

Even before its initial public offering, there were some people who were sceptical about the value of advertising on Facebook. A recent survey by Ad Age has looked at this issue in depth. Its findings are open to interpretation and do need to be supplemented by further research. However, they are relevant to social media […]

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Is Yahoo Answers under pressure?

The fortunes of Yahoo are of real interest to everyone who is involved in search engine optimisation. Google and Bing may be the most popular search engines, but ignoring Yahoo can be a strategic SEO error. Yahoo has not performed well in recent years. It shed 2,000 jobs in 2012 and also lost its chief […]

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