I’m always interested in fresh statistics & obscure metrics. Yes yes, everyone pretty much knows Facebook is massive – but how is it affecting business, particularly in the B2B & B2C sectors? Hubspot released this useful slideshow titled: 12 Essential Facebook Stats [Data] 12 Awesome Facebook Stats, Charts & Graphs View more presentations from HubSpot Internet Marketing Should your business become active in...

SEOmoz today released the industry crowd-sourced SEO ranking factors for 2011. To do this SEOmoz surveyed 134 SEO professionals (including a couple of my close friends) on what which particular factors have the greatest effect on search rankings. SEO professionals are also invited to collate their thoughts on where they think the industry is heading. 2011 SEO Ranking Factors: Versus 2009′s SEO Ranking Factors: The key take...

A little birdy, who will remain unnamed, tells me that from Oct 1 2010 all Facebook ads leading users away from the Facebook platform (e.g. – to external websites) will not be able to use “like” functionality on their adverts. Only ads leading to Facebook pages can use the “like” feature moving forward. So, does that mean a higher CPC for Facebook PPC marketers? I think so. Facebook uses a quality score type system,...

Its true! You can block anyone on Facebook except Mark Zuckerberg (Creator of Facebook). Try it you’ll get a message saying “General Block failed error: Block failed.”! This kind of thing is funny, and adds a little personality to the site. But why would Mark Zuckerberg do...

AddThis is a social media sharing toolbar that many websites use to let their visitors share information with social space. It’s small, easy to install & even has it’s own analytics feature. So why do I have a problem with it? When checking the outbound links for some rather large sites, I noticed that clients who used the AddThis toolbar were linking through a followed link on every page to the www.addthis.com website....