Picture This: Image-Laden Social Sites Gaining Soaring Success 
According to an infographic on State of Search Pinterest reached 10 million monthly unique visitors in the US faster than any independent site in history, with daily users increasing by more than 145% since the start of 2012. It’s been used by more t...
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Surveys Show: Google Still No.1 Despite Most User’s Aversion to Personalised Search
Alongside these positive statistics though, the Pew survey revealed that of its 2,000 respondents the majority 65% viewed personalised search as bad and limiting to search results one sees. An even larger 73% agreed that search engines keeping track ...
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Have a Laugh with Google’s 2012 April Fools’ Roundup
In an effort to somehow give users top-notch imagery of the Australian outback similar to those of the Amazon that Google Maps gave recently, Google announced via their Australian blog that they would be launching Google Street Roo, a project wherein...
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3 Facts about Social Media’s Role in the Arab Spring
With events continuing in Syria, it’s going to be interesting to see how social media effects the freedom of information and therefore the freedom of specific countries populations. Also as governments become better and better at cutting people’s acc...
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3 Golden Rules for Tradie and Plumber web design and SEO
This morning my hot water heater burst. As someone who works in SEO in Sydney I naturally went to my smart phone and typed in “Bondi Plumber”. What followed next was 20 frustrating minutes trying to contact a plumber using my smartphone, which I wr...
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Apple, Foursquare: Goodbye Google Maps, Hello OpenStreetMap
Unlike Google Maps, OSM can be freely edited by users, so information and directions are more updated. According to an article on news.com, it “closely follows the non-profit Wikipedia model.” “Anyone can go to the OpenStreetMap website and add or ed...
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Conversion Rate Optimisation at The Web Showroom
Unless you are a multinational (or in a seriously creative industry) users don’t want to be “amazed” “blown-away” or “wowed” by your website. Yep that’s right, they don’t want to see a self-indulgent 30 second video upon arrival, they don’t want to s...
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Website Anatomy at The Web Showroom
All habits are hard to break with web habits being no different and even though the Internet has only been around for just over 20 years, that's more than enough time for us to forge those habits, apply them to other sites we visit and judge their us...
Search Engine Market Share at The Web Showroom
As an SEO and web design agency we are often asked about which search engines have significant market share in major territories around the world. I thought I would collate some of the data that we have come across recently, to provide a snapshot on ...
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Shopping Cart Abandonment: 13 Ways To Reduce E-Commerce Abandonment Rates
Shopping cart abandonment occurs when a website visitor arrives at an online store, adds goods to a shopping cart with the intention of purchasing and then fails to checkout for a particular reason(s). This posting looks at practical steps that a web...
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