Well we have been talking about the SES conference in Chicago
where SEOhosting.co.uk was an exhibitor. We had a great deal of interest in the
SEO hosting services that we provide as many companies and individuals were not
aware of the benefits to SEO hosting.

Below you will find some pictures from the conference and also a
video presentation on SEO hosting will follow in a later post.

Below you will find a list of the winners:

Best Integrated Campaign

Fast Web Media – Coors Light – Closest To Cold

Best Local Campaign

Adido – The Colbornes Group Dominance of Google Locally

Best use of Search – Retail

Fast Web Media – Bravissimo

Best use of Search – Travel

Further Search Marketing – Richardson’s Boating Holidays; ‘Book Direct’

Best use of Search – Finance

Koozai – Payday Power Organic Search (SEO)

Best use of Search – Leisure

Further Search Marketing – Richardson’s Boating Holidays ; ‘Book Direct’

Best Mobile Campaign

Found / Autoglass – Smashing the Glass Repair Market on Mobile

Best Blog

SEOptimise – Search Marketing & SEO Blog

Innovation

Stickyeyes – Stickyeyes Search Dashboard

Best PPC Management Software

Marin Software

Best SEO Software

Majestic SEO / Receptional – Majestic SEO’s Site Explorer

Best PPC Campaign

Fuse8 – Intelligent Internet – Landing Pages with Brains

Best SEO Campaign

Verve Search – SEO services for Yale Door

Best In-House Team

www.just-eat.co.uk

Best Agency

Fast Web Media

Search Personality of the Year

Lisa Myers

Grand Prix Award

Fast Web Media – Bravissimo

Here are some pictures from the award ceremony:

“Don’t Panic in association with Manual Link Building and SEMPO, are launching the UK Search Awards, a national awards competition celebrating the very best in SEO and PPC as well as the talent that the search industry has to offer. Entries into this competition are now closed.”

There were 17 free to enter categories and some of the biggest names in UK search on our judging panel. Below is the Short List:

Best SEO Campaign

Recognition of a campaign that has achieved outstanding results in search engines in natural, free or organic listings

Fast Web Media – Bravissimo
Guava / talkSPORT – Re-tuning online identity to deliver natural search success
Just Search / Euro Car Parts – Best SEO campaign for increasing online sale
Koozai – Payday Power Organic Search (SEO)
Met Office – Met Office Events Calendar
Tecmark – Icelolly.com Search Campaign
Upstream Connections / eHarmony UK – Finding love online
Verve Search – SEO services for Yale Door

Sponsored By: SEO Hosting

Best PPC Campaign

Recognition of a campaign that has achieved outstanding results through PPC advertising

Adido – Overhaul of PPC campaign for Postgoldforcash.com for second quarter 2011
Fuse8 / Persimmon Homes – Intelligent Internet Landing Pages with Brains
iProspect – AA Travel Insurance Restructure Back to the basics
Just-Eat.co.uk – Supply and Coverage campaigns
Lakestar Media – A successful PPC campaign for Parcel2Go
LBi/bigmouthmedia – PPC campaign tastes good for Tastecard
Steak – Debenhams Christmas Spectacular
Tecmark – Sunsave PPC Campaign

Best Integrated Campaign

Recognition of a campaign that has achieved outstanding results through an integrated campaign using a variety of both online and offline activity

Auto Trader – Automotive Search Excellence
Fast Web Media – Coors Light – Closest To Cold
LBi/bigmouthmedia – integrated campaign is spot on for Redspottedhanky.com
Tecmark – 8Ball.co.uk Internet Marketing Campaign

Best Local Campaign

Recognition of a campaign based around a specific geographical location that has delivered outstanding results or visibility in search engines

Adido – The Colbornes Group Dominance of Google Locally
Branded3 – LA Fitness SEO, Google local and PPC
SEOtastic – Estate Agent Dominates City

Best Mobile Campaign

Recognition of a campaign that has successfully enhanced the visibility of a website or web page in mobile search engines

Found / Autoglass – Smashing the Glass Repair Market on Mobile

Best use of Search – Retail

Recognition of a campaign that has successfully enhanced the visibility of a website or web page in the retail sector

Blueclaw – A hole in One SEO Strategy for Direct Golf UK
Fast Web Media – Bravissimo
Found / Red Letter Days – Driving a Unique Experience
Interflora / Branded 3 – Interflora’s Retail Search Strategy
Mediaworks Online Marketing – Leisure Lakes Bikes
Receptional – Putting Vertbaudet First
Tecmark – Fawkes Cycles Campaign
theMediaFlow – BathEmpire Organic Search Campaign

Best use of Search – Finance

Recognition of a campaign that has successfully enhanced the visibility of a website or web page in the finance sector

Greenlight / Santander – How to launch a high street Financial Services brand
Koozai – Payday Power Organic Search (SEO)
MoneySupermarket.com / Branded3 – Financial SEO

Best use of Search – Travel

Recognition of a campaign that has successfully enhanced the visibility of a website or web page in the travel sector

Branded3 – SpaBreaks.com SEO
Further Search Marketing – Richardsons Boating Holidays; Book Direct
Real Web SEO – Experience Nottinghamshire Tourism Campaign
SEOptimise – SEOptimise for Audley Travel
Stickyeyes / SkiHorizon – Multilingual site development
Tecmark – Icelolly.com Search Campaign

Best use of Search – Leisure

Recognition of a campaign that has successfully enhanced the visibility of a website or web page in the leisure sector

Branded3 – SEO Campaign for LA Fitness
Further Search Marketing – Richardsons Boating Holidays; Book Direct
Guava / talkSPORT – Re-tuning online identity to deliver natural search success
Real Web SEO – Experience Nottinghamshire Tourism Campaign

Best Blog

Recognition of an outstanding industry blog

Branded3 – Blogstorm
SEOptimise – Search Marketing & SEO Blog
Tecmark – 8ball.co.uk Blog

Innovation

Recognition of search innovation in the development or use of a campaign or platform

Branded3 – Competwition.com
Stickyeyes – Stickyeyes Search Dashboard

Best PPC Management Software

Recognition of the development of an outstanding management software package that successfully manages and enhances pay per click marketing campaigns

The shortlist for this category will be announced soon

Best SEO Software

Recognition of the development of an outstanding software tool that successfully manages and enhances an organisations search engine optimization efforts

Analytics SEO – Analytics SEO Software
Majestic SEO / Receptional – Majestic SEOs Site Explorer
Screaming Frog – SEO Spider Tool
Wordtracker – Wordtracker Strategizer

Best Agency

Recognition of an outstanding agency that demonstrates consistently great understanding and use of search and / or PPC

Branded3
Fast Web Media
LBi/bigmouthmedia
Mediaworks Online Marketing
SEOptimise
Tecmark
White Hat Media

Best Client Side Team

Recognition of an outstanding in-house team or practitioner that demonstrates consistently great understanding and use of search

Auto Trader
Just-Eat.co.uk
Met Office

Search Personality of the Year

Recognition of a talented and inspiring practitioner who has revolutionized the UK search industry
The winner of this category will be announced on the evening of 3 November at The Emirates Stadium, London

Grand Prix

We will also be recognising the best of the best with a grand prix award to be selected from the previous categories.

The awards dinner takes place on the evening of Thursday 3 November 2011 at the Emirates Stadium in London in the spectacular Dial Square Suite with its amazing pitch views.

Tickets for the awards are priced as follows:

£125 +VAT for individual places
£1200 + VAT for a table of 10

To book your place please contact Rowan Jamieson at Don’t Panic, call 01706 828855 or e-mail rowan@dontpanicprojects.com

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The protection services that are offered for. Xxx domains is to test the sites by reviewing all the possible malicious code, critical vulnerabilities like SQL injections, to identify phishing sites and more.

It was in an email interview conducted by Search Engine Land in December last year with Google and Bing by journalist Danny Sullivan was able to answer the question that many asked themselves over a long period; Has social media any impact on SEO? The answer he gets from both Google and Bing is that they include and use Retweet in Twitter and “likes” into Facebook to read social cues and what’s popular content. Matt Cutts makes shortly after Danny Sullivan’s interview is also a YouTube video in which he publicly and in plain language confirms what was said in the interview.
The U.S. side SEOmoz is a kind of news site and forum for SEOs around the world during the middle of 2011 made several separate investigations into how much influence that social media has actually been on the actual rankings in Google. The first test was that one of the users urged other users on Twitter to share a link to a non-profit organization that among other things, worked to reduce hunger in Sierra Leone. After that before did not exist at all on the home page of Google when searching for “ending hunger in Sierra Leone” and took only a few hours first place – this, after exactly 522 of them shared the link to the page on Twitter. Many similar tests were made by others on SEOmoz and several interesting results were painted up in which the result was a much better place just because of tweets containing the link. The more number of followers as the tweets page’s URL was, the stronger the effect seemed to have – something that Google also confirmed in the interview. In the interview by Danny Sullivan as told Google also has several interesting points regarding how much influence where and how it was calculated. Among other things, tell Google to use and read the links shared by pages (pages) on Facebook and does not use shared links, some of the current situation is not available.

To build on the information that Google has released publicly through the interview with Search Engine Land and the Youtube video Matt Cutts published so should companies who wish to give an impetus to its website to share them both on Twitter and their Facebook page. By getting such followers on Twitter to retweet tweets containing a link to its site so this may therefore result in a higher position in Google and Bing. Interesting will be to see if Google chooses to give any more information regarding the influence and perhaps it might be that the search engines in the future also will read the personal divisions that are made in Facebook – something that surely would do good.

Being responsible for the enterprise backup may not be the most interesting thing in the IT department. It may end up really bad when something crashes and the backup is blank. Here’s a guide on how to avoid common mistakes.

“Loss of data is a disaster scenario for all businesses and a very costly one as well -
Ramjar Tayefeh, Technology Manager – Crystone AB “

Backup means much more than implementing a tape robot and schedule backups. The first thing you need to implement is to collect all information about what data and systems to be secured. This should be done very carefully and by more than one person to get different perspectives on what should be backed up.

After the mapping of business systems is the time to categorize. how critical is the recovery time!? The print can surely be down for weeks, while the mail server in nine cases out of 10 sets to big problems if it fails to respond within minutes. All in = more focus on recovery time and less on the backup.

Freedom to choose

Today, companies have big challenges to deal with complex storage infrastructures and to meet the requirements of the data security. For increased availability requirements and storage for it really to be selective in its approach to enterprise backup. Among the smaller companies it is very common with so-called file-level backup, which means that the backup server only retrieves files from the server / computer from certain directories. It can mean much longer up-time after a crash when the operating system and applications must be reinstalled before the restoration of data can begin. There are of course quite a long time and not to forget, the backup must be restored. It takes different lengths of time depending on the amount to be restored. Large amounts of data = long time.

A much better solution to backup as many medium and large companies working with today’s incremental backup. The difference is huge. As previously mentioned, the focus should be more recovery time than the backup. With incremental backup to backup an entire environment that is The operating system, your applications and files. This form of backup results in a much shorter recovery time. In a crash the server / computer you only need to run the restore to get everything back exactly as it was before the crash.

So whether you are a sole trader or a listed company with business-critical data, incremental backup is a good investment.

“Marketers and search engine optimization professionals attend SES Chicago each year to network and learn about topics such as PPC management, keyword research, SEO, social media, local, mobile, link building, duplicate content, multiple site issues, video optimization, site optimization, usability and more.

The conference offers 70+ sessions, intensive training workshops, and an expo floor packed with companies that can help you grow your business. While you’re at it, network with peers and leading industry vendors. Programmed by the SES advisory board, you can be assured – SES content really is king!”

SEOhosting.co.uk is taking SEO to a new level by offering country specific C-Class IP hosting via our Dedicated Servers & VPS solutions. The basic idea behind SEO hosting is that having your websites on unique IP’s may give you an advantage over your competitors SE rankings. We offer the option to host all of your websites on one physical server at a single geographical location, but on different C-Class IP’s. This creates the impression that your domains are operated by unique entities and this helps to pass along the link juice when interlinking sites.

You can view our listing here,

The Internet World Trade Show is an annual event based around social media, eCommerce, hosting and connectivity as well as digital marketing of all types. It receives around 12,000 attendees per year, making it one of the best shows to attend for companies that have an internet presence. Top name brands like American Express, Microsoft, Sony and Land Rover participate in the world class show, drawing more onlookers every year. Internet World is the only event of its type in the UK and is the largest internet trade show in Europe.

Each area of the trade show is hosted in a separate zone of the showroom floor, allowing attendees to check out the companies that relate most to their interests. For example, SEO hosting can be found in the hosting section. This makes Internet World unique in trade shows. There are also seminars available to help attendees learn more about specific topics related to using the internet for business.

SEOHosting.co.uk provides flexible hosting services and has several locations available for European SEO hosting, including Germany, UK, Spain, France, Sweden and several others. This allows clients to purchase packages of IPs from different areas, with differing C class IPs and use them to create websites that appear to be completely unrelated. For organic search engine optimization purposes, this can be very useful and is a service that is very much in demand these days.

Crystone is the parent company behind SEOHosting.co.uk and provides a range of hosting and SEO services, including pay-per-click management, domain name aid, VPS & Dedicated Server SEO hosting. The company also has branches in other areas, such as content creation and offsite SEO, providing a wide range of services to their clients.

For more information on SEO Hosting, visit www.SEOHosting.co.uk.

Microsoft recently agreed to pay $ 7.5 million dollars for a batch consisting of 624 IPv4 addresses. The deal applies addresses from the bankrupt Canadian operator Nortel. The deal is done through a bankruptcy court in Delaware and is not yet fully understood.

If the deal goes through, so it means that Microsoft will pay $ 11.25 per address. The price of IPv4 addresses, which are slowly running out, then shoot through the roof. Based on the proposed price, the total value of all remaining IPv4 addresses remain on the $ 48 billion, according to IDG News.

Recently announced by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization has done away with the last IPv4 address. The stores are still with regional registration authorities are also about to end.

According to ICANN the remaining addresses will go to organizations that have a strong and immediate need. The issue is wheter or not Microsoft’s purchase is of character. The deal has led to speculation that Microsoft bought the addresses to be able to resell them.

An analysts wondering on a blog how Microsoft could buy the holding, although there are rules stating that the addresses have not been used by Nortel would be submitted to a common pool.

As a result of the shortage of IPv4 addresses, the American registration authority Arin, American Registry for Internet Numbers tightened the rules for distribution. Organizations claiming the new addresses must anticipate their needs in the three-month basis, from the previous one tolvmånadesårsperiod.

Arina CEO, John Curran, suggests that the organization may explain their rules to court to give a clarification to the application.
“Arina enforces existing rules and is prepared to explain them in a number of court rooms”, Curran said in a blog, but if he really actually is behind the statement has not been verified.

Nearly 470 000 of the addresses are available immediately for Microsoft, when the deal is completed. The rest are placed in line with Nortel’s bankruptcy proceeding, according to the documents filed with the court. Microsoft has not commented on the deal.

Should we be on facebook? Should we work with apps? Should we work with Twitter? If so, how do we make money on it. Take a shortcut to understanding and learning from those who know.

SEO hosting will be exhibiting at the Internet Expo & Digital Marketing fair where you can learn how to make money with Facebook advertising, how to increase your visibility on Google, and how you should think about whether you should make a mobile site or apps. Topic and discussions are many and you will get it all at the Internet Expo & Digital Marketing fair. The fair is for everyone who works with digital communications and transactions over the Internet. So Welcome!