dotSEO’s Naked SEO report, which contains the results of a survey of marketers from small businesses, as well as a benchmark study of the top 50 SME websites in the UK, as identified by The Times has shown there is a general lack of awareness and understanding of the positives of search engine optimization. A

The data used to generate the information below was collected by the Nielsen company and covers the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, US and Australia. The figures represent unique users for the month of January 2010. The categories were defined by the BBC – such as retail, social networks, search/portal. brand category (BBC

Yes! What is social media? Social media marketing is the process of promoting your site or business through social media channels / websites and it is a powerful strategy that will get you links, attention and huge amounts of traffic. We will look at updating and optimising your business via facebook, twitter and youtube; the

The launch of the iphone competitor, Nexus One by Google has ment Google has now moved into Apple’s computer product arena. Apple have a counter measure in place to help keep the iphone established as the main player for the new mobile internet. Apple have now bought ‘Quattro Wireless’ – an online advertising software company

Twitter is buying a location tracking company called Mixer Labs. Mixer Labs, was founded a couple of  former Google employees, who currently make the application for Twitter under the name of GeoAPI. Twitter  said the deal would allow Twitter users to show people where they are when they post updates to the site. The application

The first Monday in December is thought to be the peak and one-day sales are expected to be in excess of £350m, analysts say, and the busiest hour is between 1pm and 2pm GMT. Online signs look good. Sales are up 17% on last month compared to the same month last year, the British Retail

Live search is here – google search results will now include information from news organisations, blogs and platforms, such as Twitter, as soon as it is published. Live Search will also be available on phones, like the iPhone and handsets running the Android operating system. “Our users will get the results as they are produced,”

Twitter will charge a commercial fee to give users access to extra data such as analytics a bbc interview has revealed. Watch it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8369459.stm

What is it? A new web based operating system from Google – they’ll keep all your data on their servers though. The idea is to have a web based op system where all the apps are under a seperate tab and there is no software to download or install. They have said they wanted it to

Google has agreed a deal to purchase mobile advertising company Admob. The deal has cost Google £449m in stock allowing Google to take advantage of opportunities in the booming market for mobile devices. Admob’s platform focuses on adverts for small devices such as iphone and blackberry. Google has the android phone and may well plan