Search Engine Marketing Blog

At Impact we are getting ready for a busy new year and to help us we are looking for 2 new people to add to our team in the following roles:

• Sales Executive
• Search Engine Optimisation Specialist

If you think it could be for you then please get in touch or check out the full job descriptions available from the jobs page.

If you are planning on doing your Christmas shopping online this year you have better be quick. With only 2 weeks to go until the big day, many online retailers are fast approaching their last delivery dates.

Each year more people are avoiding the high street and are turning to the internet to complete their Christmas shopping. From the comfort of your home you have access to a great range of shops plus you don’t need to worry about the queues. So you will be sure to find something for everyone from Grandparents to the Kids.

Happy Shopping!

After July’s announcement Ask.com has now gone live with AskEraser their new free privacy tool which can be enabled by its users and remain active for 24 months before it will need to be activated again.

This will mean that users can ultimately surf anonymously within the ASK.com search engine. This means that Ask will stop recording the searchers search queries and cookie information (Ip address, user Id, session Id and the complete query text).

If you do use the personalisation features on Ask using AskEraser will get rid of these along with other cookies stored on your computer.

It is unsure if this move will encourage many more users to use the Ask.com search engine over competitors such as Google, Yahoo and MSN but it is a good move and shows that they are making moves to further protect users privacy.

JobVacancyGuide.com Group offer job advertising space to both recruitment agencies and employers; as well as offering a CV upload service free of charge.

We are pleased to announce that JobVacancyGuide.com Group have appointed Impact Media to provide a professional Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) campaign for their site OilandGasJobVacancies.com.

We are very much looking forward to working with JobVacancyGuide.com Group on this SEO project.

Google is now taking minutes to index web pages instead of days according to a recent article by Manoi Jasra for Search Engine Guide. This is probably Google’s response to the fast paced blogging trends that mean content on the internet is now being updated at a much faster rate.

This goes to show that your content can be indexed and appearing in Google’s search results faster than ever which is great news for web site owners with fast moving content that want to get their news to the internet as fast as possible.

At Impact we believe in trying to make life that little bit easier for both our clients and staff and we know that it can somtimes be the little things that make all the difference.

As of Monday we have introduced flexitime at our offices and staff will now get the choice of starting and finishing either half an hour earlier or later.

Although this is means a slight change in our working hours there will always be someone here to help in normal office hours and the quality of work will still remain to be excellent as always

Last Thursday Google rolled out their new charts API which will allow anyone and everyone to to embed stunning dynamic charts into their web pages.

These charts were originally created for Google’s use but they have now made the technology freely available to everyone. The charts will be rendered as PNG format and are available in several different formats including:

- Line Graphs
- Pie Charts
- Bar Charts
- Scatter Plots
- Venn Diagraphs

So if you are into charts and graphs then this is an API for you!

At the recent Pubcon Matt Cutts has announced that Google will begin to start treating subdomains like a normal folders.

In a few weeks Google will roll out a new filter that will look to allow a maximum of 2 results per domain to be returned in any given search. There will of course be exceptions to this rule for sites such as blogspot.com but it should look to halt the results ownership some big sites have held and open the doors to a more relevant results list.

iMission are a specialist UK distributor, focusing exclusively on DVB, TV and Media storage products.

We are pleased to announce that iMission Limited have engaged the professional services of Impact Media to promote their website, TVStick.co.uk, through the use of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

We are very much looking forward to working with iMission Limited on this SEO project.

Google have turned their considerable technological weight to helping children around the world track Santa Claus as we head towards the 25th December.

In their blog post, Tracking Santa, then and now, their Chief Santa Tracker explains the various ways that children can now monitor Santa’s movements using a combination of products, including Google Earth. There’s even a widget you can add to your Google page for up-to-the-minute monitoring of Father Christmas and his sleigh. Ho! Ho! Ho!