Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Google+ New Social Networking

Google+ is a new social networking service that's still in a "testing phase." Google are currently analysing, tweaking, adding and possibly removing features during the testing period.

Like Facebook, it's a place to socialize with friends. Like Twitter but unlike Facebook, Google+ makes it possible to follow people who don't follow you, which means you don't have to become fake friends with everyone. And like LinkedIn, it's possible to use Google+ to keep up with a professional network of colleagues and also use it as a social hangout for friends and family.

Google+ introduces "circles." You add friends and colleagues to one or more circles. If you don't put them in one of your circles they will only see what you post publicly.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Website Keywords

How many words should you have on your homepage to optimise your search engine ranking?

It is a balance between good content that is easy to follow for visitors and multiple keywords that are there for the GoogleBot to find. A website home page needs to be easy for visitors to navigate through and keep them on your site, producing more sales or enquiries. The more words you have the more text there is for GoogleBot to find. I find a good default amount is at least 200 words. The more words there are will help the search engines but make sure your visitors do not get lost!

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