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Mother’s Day: Woodlands Junior School strikes again
March 16, 2010
A couple of years ago we highlighted the extraordinary case of Woodlands Junior School, the best optimised school website in the UK. It appears high up on the Google SERP for popular seasonal terms such as ‘mothers day’, ‘pancake day’,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:58 AM
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In Categories Education | Fast moving search terms | Paid search | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Is Fairtrade growing in popularity?
March 12, 2010
Another guest blog by Jonny Steel, Insights Manager, mySupermarket-Insights.co.uk Fairtrade Fortnight is an annual event which aims to raise the profile of fair and ethical trading values. The supermarkets have been keen to get on board for the past few... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Economy | Food | Guest posts | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Coffee wars: Flat White vs. Cappuccino
March 11, 2010
Hitwise was started in Australia, and there remains a strong Antipodean influence in our London office. The most recent manifestation of this is a fashion amongst my colleagues for flat whites – a style of coffee that, like the pavlova... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:20 AM
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In Categories Demographics | Fast moving search terms | Food | Local | Retail | Search
The dotcom bubble: 10 years on
March 10, 2010
Today is the tenth anniversary of the bursting of the dotcom bubble, so I though it would be interesting to see how the Internet landscape has changed over the last decade. Below is a list of the top 20 websites... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:45 PM
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In Categories BBC | Economy | Google | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | TV | Travel | Video
Travel sites show improvement in the latest IMRG-HITWISE HOT SHOPS LIST
March 03, 2010
Yesterday saw the release of the sixteenth quarterly edition of the IMRG-HITWISE HOT SHOPS LIST, which ranks by popularity, as indicated by visits, the top 50 UK e-retailers selling goods and services within the IMRG Index Classification. Click here to... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:42 AM
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In Categories Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Supermarkets | Travel
Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?
March 01, 2010
Another guest blog from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. In the table below we can see where in the UK financial aggregators are most used. The representation shows the areas which over-index compared to the UK population. In... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:38 PM
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In Categories Financial Services | Insurance | Postal Area | Postal Areas data | Richard Seymour
Chatroulette: a posh webcam?
February 15, 2010
This morning I stumbled upon an article in Guardian profiling Chatroulette, a new webcam site that, as its name implies, connects users with random strangers for live video chats. According to the article, the site “is proving a sensation around... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:54 PM
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In Categories Dating | Demographics | Experian | Gambling | Mosaic lifestyle | Social networks | Video
Top websites in France
February 09, 2010
Bonjour! It’s a very exciting day at Experian Hitwise towers today because we have announced the launch of Hitwise France! The Hitwise France service will provide clients with data on website industry and category rankings, Clickstream traffic activity, search behaviour... Continue reading...
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In Categories Demographics | Email | France | Google | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Travel