News stories from August 2008

59 News Stories
Stories 11 - 20

Expert: Ensure websites meet customer requirements
26 August 2008
Companies creating a new website or undergoing a redesign project should concentrate on meeting the needs of the customer first, according to Gerry McGovern of Customer Carewords.The web experience ex...
Category: Web Design,
B2B company websites 'need to be persuasive'
26 August 2008
Websites belonging to business-to-business (B2B) organisations should be as persuasive and professional as possible, an expert has advised.Speaking to SmartCompany.com.au, Phil Hare of software firm S...
Category: Web Design,
Microsoft unveils Photosynth
22 August 2008
Microsoft has launched a new tool for use with digital images.The Photosynth service allows users to turn their photos into 3D 360-degree shows and look up or down, pan from left to right, zoom in and...
Category: Rich Media,
Good content, link baiting recommended for SEO
22 August 2008
Businesses should review their website content to see if they can improve it to boost inbound links.This is according to research firm MarketingSherpa, which has published a number of tips on how to t...
Category: Internet Marketing,
Web 2.0 marketing 'on the rise for SMBs'
22 August 2008
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly looking to Web 2.0 as part of their marketing campaigns, a new study has suggested.Two-fifths of those responding to a survey by The Kelsey Gr...
Category: Web 2.0,
Consumers rank Volvo site as best for usability
21 August 2008
Volvo's website offers the best user experience compared with other car manufacturers, a new study has suggested.The research, carried out by Global Reviews based on elements such as data availability...
Category: Web Design,
Yahoo!, Intel unveil web app channel for TV
21 August 2008
Yahoo! and Intel have previewed a new web application platform that allows consumers to use internet programs while watching television.These applications can be used on televisions and other consumer...
Category: Web 2.0,
Low-volume keywords 'offer more for less'
21 August 2008
Low-volume keywords may be more beneficial for paid search marketers than their more popular counterparts, it has been claimed.Yahoo!'s Noah Belson said on the company's Search Marketing blog that whi...
Category: Internet Marketing,
Americans undertake 8bn searches in July
20 August 2008
Nearly eight billion online queries were made by American search engine users last month, a new report has shown.This is three per cent more than recorded in July 2007, Nielsen Online said in its rese...
Category: Search Engines,
Internet shopping spending hits £4.8bn
20 August 2008
Spending on internet shopping reached £4.8 billion in the UK during July, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.The research showed that online sales increased by 11.3 p...
Category: E-commerce,

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Britons are spending significantly more time surfing the web every day, rising from six minutes a day in 2005 to 24 minutes last year (2007), with internet ads rising by almost 40 per cent to £2.8 billion last year.

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