Archive for the 'General' Category

Internet - Rural vs City

Map of Britain showing online shopping useAn intersting article on the rural versus city debate on use of the web…..

New Hitwise data indicates that people living in Britain’s rural areas tend to out-participate city folk when it comes to online shopping and social networking.

For four weeks, Hitwise UK Research Director, Robin Goad looked at how many Internet users in a given geographic area went to shopping sites and found that city types are the least likely to visit an online retailer, while rural residents in Wales and the South West were most active. “A similar picture also emerges when it comes to social networking.

Google Search Tips

How to get the most out of searching using Google and other search engines. A short interview with Matt Cutts - Senior Engineer with Google - who explores some of the best methods for searching.

I will also bet you a £1 that there is at least one tip that you didn’t know you could do via Google!

Dave

What are UK Internet users searching for?

A new survey reveals what the UK’s internet users have been searching for, by studying which sectors are receiving the most visitors from search engines, and which sectors receive the greatest proportion of traffic from search.

The Nielsen/NetRatings study found that web users in the UK clicked on more than 1.3bn search results in July this year, which equates to 29,000 per minute.

The travel sector received the most, with 41.6m clickthroughs from search engines, which accounted for 4.7% of all clicks. Next was the social networks sector, with 40.2m clicks, followed by research tools, such as Wikipedia, with 39.3m clickthroughs.

Business Link South East Launches

Well, the Business Link regional website for the South East region went live yesterday - all according to schedule.

We have been working as technical project managers for the site since the beginning of April - so it has been a major project for us. We were contracted by Business Link Surrey to manage the implementation which consolidated the existing six websites run by the Business Links in the South East (Berkshire, Hampshire & Isle of Wight, Kent, Milton Keynes Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Sussex) in to one new Regional website.

Welcome to the new Key Multimedia Blog

Welcome to Key Multimedia’s new blog. We finally managed to find a couple of hours to get it set up - and we hope you find the content useful.

It is powered by the fantastic WordPress blog tool - which is a breeze to manage and add content.

We will be adding regular posts on what we have been up to and commenting on some of the experiences of our clients as we continue to help them make the most of their online and website presence.

We will also be highlighting best practice, useful tooles, resources and links along the way.