With some interesting news from the internet this week we at the Cozy Digital Blog look into how the last five days of news have shaped up. As well as looking into the news from around the web, we've also provided some interesting stuff ourselves. Read this article >>>

You may have notice a new addition to the blog in the last few days – the right side column has had a new poll section added. This allows us to canvas the considered opinions of our discerning readership!
The current pole is about Google Shopping. Do you use it? Read This Post >>

Yesterday Matt Kelly, associate editor of the Daily Mail, claimed that chasing high rankings in search engines and following SEO advice has lead to the dumbing down of news and suggested that online news outlets need to change their approach and begin putting high quality journalism back as their primary focus.

New features for Google Analytics are set to go live this week with an array of advancements on current features. What further insight into website traffic and browsing patterns will these advancemant to the application have for marketers and SEO’s?

Yesterday Google announced that they are going to allow content providers to limit the number of pages that searchers can view for free.  After these free views have been utilised searchers clicking on headlines in Google will be presented with registration pages.  In this article I consider whether this will have a positive or negative impact for  Google, its users and the news providers.

Google’s image results feature is undergoing an overhaul and the results are expected later today. Will the changes constitute an improvement to Google’s frontrunner search engine?

With the release of Bing Shopping’s related promotions, Google have thrown their hat into the ring with some promotions of their own. How will each fair in the competitive market during the busy christmas period.

During the busy holiday season, businesses look to make their biggest profits and Bing Shopping looks to take advantage of this.

For years Google has functioned on the principle that if more sites point to one site for a particular search, that site is probably the most highly thought of for that topic. It’s a system that has served them well for years and as a whole works well to improve the ease of browsing the internet. However, the internet is a haven for free speech and expression and some popular issues can spark controversy.

Over the last few months you may have noticed that Google has been testing a new form of expandable advert on its search results pages.   These adverts, which offer searchers direct links to products with images and prices, have been gradually tested and Google are now ready to make the service available to all AdWords advertisers.