Gary Eckstein Internet 1 advantage, bing, blogs, competitive advantage, google, Internet, page load speed, search, Search Engine Optimization, seo, SERPs, web, web design, website, websites, yahoo, yslow
Google announced a few months ago that Webpage load speed now has a small bearing on ranking in relation to SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) i.e. it is better to have faster loading Pages. There was quite a vocal reaction to this news by various Webmasters and Web designers. Google, Bing and Yahoo have always [...]
Gary Eckstein Management 0 Australia, australian websites, business, competitive advantage, google, internode, malcolm gladwell, mba, michael porter, service, service strategy, strategy, telstra
Malcolm Gladwell is a fantastic author and I have been reading the Tipping Point where he discusses what creates a sudden and large change in people’s activities. One of the recommendations Gladwell offers is to create ‘stickiness’ where the provider creates a product or service which consumers perceive as preferable to an alternative (Gladwell illustrates [...]
Gary Eckstein Search Engine Optimization 2 competitive advantage, firebug, firefox, google, page load speed, page speed, Search Engine Optimization, search engine results, seo, serp, SERPs, yahoo, yslow
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gurus and Website developers take note; Google may soon be including Page Load speed into its ranking algorithm for organic search. This certainly makes sense and has been coming for a long time. Google values its very fast page load speeds and views this as a significant competitive advantage. If Google [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 backflip, blog, blogger, blogging, blogs, bookmarking, competitive advantage, delicious, facebook, gaia, Internet, linkedin, mister wong, myspace, myyearbook, Nielsen, product differentiation, sharing, slashkey, social bookmarking, social bookmarking sites, Social Media, social networking, social networking site, social networking sites, tagged, twitter, web
Nielsen this week released comparisons showing the enormous growth in the amount of time spent on the most visited Social Media sites from April 2008 to April 2009. The numbers are truly astounding. The Social Media / Social Bookmarking / Sharing industry is still in its infancy. We’ll definitely be seeing consolidation and / or [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 4 competitive advantage, foaf, google, meta data, microformats, relationships, rich snippets, search engine consultant, Search Engine Optimization, semantic, semantic web, wolfram alpha, WordPress, xfn, yahoo
The use of Microformats and RDFa is becoming more commonplace among search engines. Yahoo has been indexing and using RDFa and Microformats meta data for a short while and now Google has ‘come to the party’ (although Google use of the data will be limited for now – and calls RDFa ‘Rich Snippets’). Microformats and, [...]
