The Silkstream Blog

In Europe the right to privacy is a highly developed law. The European Commision (responsible for consolidating EU laws) will tomorrow unveil new proposals for data protection. This being one of 2012's key pieces of legislation.

Search engines such as Google have an extremely difficult job. They need to find that one needle you are looking for in a haystack of literally billions and billions of webpages.

In May 2009 Google introduced "rich snippets", enabling micro-formatting for sites containing structured content such as reviews, recipes, products, video content, business listings and more. Now schema.org allows you to mark up a wider range of items on your website.

Many businesses large and small nowadays operate a Facebook page. But how can you tell if you are running your Facebook page well, engaging effectively with your fans and reaching the right audience?

Following on from our first SEO seminars, we would like to answer some post-event attendee questions...

In 2010 Google integrated their local search algorithm with their main algorithm. This means that dependant on your location your search results will more than likely vary.

Last week we saw some serious changes in social media with the launch of Google+ going public coinciding almost simultaneously with some of the biggest changes Facebook have made so far to their user interface.

For those of you that may have missed the news, we have moved to a new, larger office. Located at The Maltings, Locks Hill in Rochford, Southend-on-Sea.

Creating and distributing content has become an important marketing strategy for most businesses. However its difficult for many e-commerce website owners to understand the bigger picture when creating content and how it can be, if used correctly, a major tool for aquiring new clients.

With almost one in three mobile phone users now owning a smartphone, our thirst for knowledge does not stop when we walk away from our computers.

Over the last few weeks many of you may have noticed another button appearing all over the web. Let me introduce you to Google '+1'.