Articles in Social Media

• Google Plus Lowers Age Limit

  When Google+ first launched, there was an 18 age restriction on having a Google+ account. Now that Google+ continues to expand, Google has reached out to the younger users that…

• Google Search Plus Your World

  If you're signed into Google.com when you search, you're going to start seeing a new message on your search results page. A message like this: If you see that above your results,…

• Twitter Criticises Google For Google+ In Search

  The recent announcement regarding Google's integration of Google+ content with search results, (as discussed here in our article on Google Search Plus ) has produced some…

• Google+ In Search Engine Results

  In what's only the latest indication that Google+ will be a factor in the search engine rankings, it seems that Google has started to deliver + results in its SERPs. According to…

• Users Resist Brands In Social Media

  We've been suggesting it for quite a while already, but thanks to the latest report by TNS Digital Life , there's finally some compelling evidence that social media marketing…

• Google+ Launches Brand Pages

  Google+, Google's fledgling social media platform, with around 40 million users, today announced the roll-out of Google+ Pages, a new feature that allows the creation of brand…

• Social Media Marketing Drives Little Traffic

  In today's online marketing environment, social media marketing is a big buzz word. everybody is a social media expert, and everybody has a strategy to leverage your social media…

• Few Referrals From Social Media Marketing

  Social media marketing is still set as one of the important things to do when it comes to online marketing. However, thanks to a recent report released by Outbrain , it looks like…

• Twitter To Serve Promoted Tweets

  According to recent news reports, Twitter announced yesterday that they will begin placing advertisements in users timelines, in a long anticipated attempt to effectively monetise…

• Twitter Announces Advertising Via Tweet

  In a post on the Twitter Blog yesterday, the popular micro-blogging service announced that they will be serving ads, or “promoted tweets” in the timelines of users who follow the…

• Twitter Trends South Africa

  Ever popular, socially revolutionary, mind-numbingly boring, information overload. No matter what you think about it, Twitter has become a pervasive feature of the information-age…

• Blogging In South Africa

  By now, we suspect that pretty much everybody on the internet knows what a blog is. If you don't have one yourself, the chances are that you're at least reading somebody else's.…