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"As Google has become an increasingly unavoidable behemoth (as this video points out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30), it is easy to overlook the number of smaller search engines that are offering some real changes.  Here are three of the broad types of threat that may emerge a long time in the future:

This week our very own Deputy MD,Emma Slater turned 40!

Recent research carried out by Dollywagon, a media sciences research company and other lines of enquiry for the RAB was set to measure the amount of browsing time a sample of people spent after hearing 23 radio advert’s.

We’ve been in a great position lately, merrily recruiting some of the UK’s rising SEO stars. So first-off, a big welcome to the guys that have joined us over the last few weeks and months: Tahera, Mike, Carolyn, Noel, Matt B and Matt H.

With the vast growth of the SEO team, now running at 10 SEO’s (and still looking for more Manchester SEOs), we wanted to make provisions to ensure that the quality of learning and professional development is maintained.

As such, we’ve been hard at work of late building a new training scheme for the raft of SEO’s that have joined the Mediaedge:cia SEO team: the MEC SEO Academy.

The inaugural MECsconi Cup took place at Riley's on Deansgate on the 15^th October contested by several of Mediaedge:cia Manchester staff.

MEC entered 4 teams to the BBC Radio Times Quiz and all ended up finishing in the top 5 positions out of 21 teams that entered.

Today is the day 100,000 lucky individuals get to try out the developer version of Google Wave. And as if they aren’t lucky enough, they will each get 5 invites.

So what is Google wave?

Search engine optimisation has moved on somewhat since the ‘golden age of keyword usage, where a few keywords in your meta tags would work wonders.  Now though, the golden age is long gone.  If you’re working with on-page SEO / on-site SEO you now need to ensure your website targets a range of semantically related keywords across a range of ranking factors to promote a deeper level of relevancy to the search engines.

The effective integration of PPC and SEO is a subject that is currently widely discussed in the industry.

According to Google blog search there are over 5,500 blog mentions of this topic!

To avoid making this post, number 5611 on the same subject, I thought I would take a slightly different view and discuss the 5 key challenges to actually integrating PPC and SEO.

Twitter was launched in 2006 with Chairman Jack Dorsey sending the first tweet “just setting up my twttr”