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The first day of the 2 day A4UExpo event in London starting off on the 13th of October at the ExCeL Centre London is kicking

My colleague, Nick Andrews pointed out to me that one of the largest sites in the UK car industry recently updated its design - Auto Trader. Of course, being an SEO type, I couldn't help but cast a professional eye over it, to see how well they'd incorporated search optimisation techniques. A new design or development should be the perfect opportunity to embed best practice SEO, and gain additional traffic as well as improving user experience. I say should, because it seems to have gone horribly wrong on the on-page side in this instance.

While link building is an important part of any website, there are plenty of myths and misconceptions when it comes to what works and what doesn't.

At the moment, I'm seeing some strange quirks in Google's sitelinks display, most noticeably, odd replacement of English characters with (at a guess) Japanese characters, e.g.

Here at Receptional we like to keep up to date and current with all the recent news, information and networking opportunities in the field of digital and Internet Marketing.

Some of you will remember the previous 'Teens Don't Tweet' Blog post from last month, although something

This certainly isn't the most advanced topic I've ever discussed, but it is a grey area to many out there who are new to link building or don't have an in-depth understanding of it.

Link exchange appears to be a dying trend in the link building industry, at least according to Google Insight fi

With the global financial crisis that has seen many businesses go under, many redundancies made and that holiday to New York you were dreaming of go out the window, it is no wonder some people arou

It's later in the month than expected, but we're pleased to announce round two of free Yahoo Analytics accounts for August.

It has been reported from the very mouth of Co-Founder of Twitter Biz Stone that Twitter is in the stage of being able to produce commercial acc

Latest news of the intrusive advertising being used on iphone applications got me th

This is something that gets brought up again and again, usually due to the fact that 'Twitter-phob's' can't see how this is possible.

A regular issue to owners of new websites, and even a worry to some owners of older websites is when their internal pages and sometimes even their homepage are not being indexed by search engines.

Who says social networking campaigns are better for B2C campaigns than B2B campaigns?

Is the Content Network Cost-effective? The key question is how cost-effective is the content network in comparison to standard

As most people who are active users of Twitter will know, the options for uses are endless and having lots of followers is an exciting prospect but how can you make sure that you are not going to g

It has been announced yesterday that the largest social network in the world, Facebook.com has bought the growing social media start-up FriendFeed.

Manual Directory Submission vs Automated Submission

Reading this you could be forgiven for thinking that 'this sounds like a title from a University Essay' but I was sent this interesting principle today by a colleague who pointed out how this princ

Now one of the top trending topics on twitter today was 'teens don't tweet' and after investigating what all this was about I see that this has to do with the stories that have been surfacing recen

Three-way link building has been highly popular in recent times.

Link building can be a difficult task for anyone with a lack of knowledge in this area, with the search engine algorithms becoming increasingly complex.  You shouldn't hold back on your link b

I was interested to read the document (below) today which comes from the ‘Cabinet office blog’ a guest post by

Google Adwords has just announced that it is lowering the threshold for using conversion optimizer from 30 to 15 conversions a month. This will open up the system to a broader range of advertisers that were previously only generating 15 to 30 conversions in a 30 day period from their AdWords activity.

Social bookmarking has grown rapidly over the past couple of years and some might say that it is now at its peak.

I have just been reading how Google plans to monetise its Google voice service and wondered if this would be the end of listening to wonderful hold music that am sure we have all grown to love!

It is not uncommon for clients to ask us what the difference is between these and why there is a discrepancy between the AdWords and Analytics conversion figures, so I thought I would explain why.

Now this was a little thing which I came across this morning thanks to Mashable’s always interesting blog!

Fresh on the heels of the link building basics blog I posted last month, comes part 2, with more sim