Youth of UAE embraces the world of social media

Facebook recently reached the momentous landmark of having 500 million users. When you consider there are close to 7 billion on planet earth this means that 7% of the world’s population is on Facebook. In certain countries such as the United States, the UK much of Europe and Japan almost everyone between the age of [...]

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Middle East Netizens are on the Rise

Over the last couple of decades the Internet has become a huge worldwide phenomenon.  Latest global figures show that the number of internet users (also known as ‘Netizens’) now stands on the verge of exceeding 2 billion! Of that total a whopping 64 million of them are in the Middle East, accounting for a staggering [...]

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Project Launch: SmoothRed

MintTwist are proud to announce the re-launch of SmoothRed – an epic site that organises wine tours in France. SmoothRed offer bespoke, tailor-made wine holidays and trips. Whether you’re interested in a short break or a luxurious, 10 day tour – SmoothRed cover it all! MintTwist were tasked with redesigning the website and bringing a [...]

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The browser war continues

For those working in the web design industry, browser choice is often a topic filled with debate. For anyone who surfs the net browser choicer can also be a very personal matter and recent data suggests that browser choice is increasingly diversified. In the beginning there was Netscape Navigator. However by 2002 the browser had [...]

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Online shopping continues to flourish in the UAE

It was recently announced by MasterCard that online shopping is a growing trend in Dubai. According to the company, the percentage of people who use the internet to carry out their shopping grew from 29 per cent in 2009 to 42 per cent in 2010. The MasterCard study showed that the most influential group are [...]

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Dubai economy grows by 2.2%

The UAE has become an important financial location in recent years having attracted billions in investment from businesses around the world. Dubai is a key location within the UAE and projects such as the Burj Al Arab and the Burj Khalifa along with a host of other modern architecture projects are synonymous of the city [...]

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UAE competes in the World Summit Award

Since the internet was developed digital content has come a long way. If you look at web pages of the mid to late 1990’s you will find that they are much more simplistic, both in terms of appearance and functionality. Fast forward to 2011 and the internet, some might argue, has become the eighth wonder [...]

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My Technology hero – Tommy Flowers – The father of the digital age

The name Tommy Flowers probably means very little to just about everyone which is a shame because without Tommy Flowers it is more than likely I would not be here writing this blog. The genius of Tommy Flowers was obvious from a young age and he eventually earned a degree in electrical engineering from the [...]

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The Next Big Search Engine?

For a long time Google has been the undisputed heavyweight in search.  Ever since it was first launched more than ten years ago, it has won over fans with its simple interface and focus of returning the most relevant results in the quickest time.  Google has definitely helped the Internet’s association with the fast, almost [...]

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Project Launch: Gold Matrix

Gold Matrix launched in October 2010 to buy scrap gold and now sells gold bars, gold coins, silver bars and silver coins. The site also has a gold calculator, allowing users to work out how much their gold is worth before selling. Gold prices are updated twice daily through a simple admin system. MintTwist have [...]

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Why your website content shouldn’t be an elephant

You’ve spent months planning and talking about your new website.   Agencies have been interviewed and briefed, you’ve looked at designs and waited patiently for the build to finish…but one thing is missing.   Content. Content is often the last thought but it should be one of your first. Writing what goes into your website at the beginning: [...]

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Short Guide to SEO from MintTwist

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) should be an integral part of the planning, designing and development process for all new websites.  Similarly, if you have a website and it hasn’t been SEOed then you should think about starting. Search engine traffic should be the number one driver of traffic to your website.  The percentage of new [...]

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What to expect from web design in 2011

2010 was a difficult year for many people in many different industries. After the difficulties of 2008 and 2009, 2010 was never going to be a boom year. Many economic analysts had forecast 2011 as a year of recovery and maybe a bit of growth in the economy. However, with widespread government spending cuts due, [...]

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Top five tips for choosing the right web design company in the UAE

If your business is located in the UAE finding the right web design company is not a straight forward exercise as there is a big choice of web design agencies in the UAE. It is important to take certain precautions before selecting an Abu-Dhabi or Dubai web design company to design, build and test your [...]

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How to maximise the SEO juice from your Twitter page

Did you know that your Twitter tweets are ripe with search engine juice that you can put to use to get more marketing exposure? Of course, links you post on Twitter, including links in your bio, are automatically no-follow, meaning the search engines will follow them, but “link juice” (like Google PageRank) isn’t carried over. [...]

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Google To Display Tweets in Search Results

Google has signed a deal with Twitter and will begin displaying tweets in Google search results. The announcement is generating mixes reactions among SEO professionals and site owners. Google made the very brief announcement in their official blog about the Twitter Deal as part of their goal to “create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast [...]

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Bing Offers Link Building Tips

MSN’’s Bing search engine team published a list of issues related to obtaining inbound links that could either help or hurt your web site’s rankings. As most serious web site owners know, building good, industry-related inbound links is important to help a web site rank well in organic search results. There aren’t any new revelations [...]

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Review of Caphyon Web Ranking System for SEO

Advanced Web Ranking is a search engine ranking software application that helps check the position of a website in search engines rankings. The web ranking systems allows users to pick region specific search engines making managing international sites easier than ever before.  To begin users need to enter a list of keywords or phrases they  [...]

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4 Key SEO Tips For Website Redesigning!

by Kabir Bedi The world wide web is constantly changing and to make sure your business keeps pace, it is important to be up to date with the latest trends and technologies. And this is why companies decide to redesign their website. Of course, there are other reasons too like re-branding the business, updating the [...]

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SEO – Linking Strategies

Links to your site from other sites drive additional traffic. But since Google and other major search engines consider the number of incoming links to your website (“link popularity”) as an important indicator of relevance, more links will help you rank higher in the search engines. Google has a measure called PageRank that reflects the [...]

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SEO – Harness Traditional Strategies

Just because “old media” strategies aren’t on the Internet doesn’t mean they aren’t effective. A mixed media approach can be very effective. Include Your URL on Stationery, Cards, and Literature. Make sure that all business cards, stationery, brochures, and literature contain your company’s URL and see that your printer gets the URL syntax correct! In [...]

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SEO: ALS (Advanced Labelling Systems)

ALS have contracted MintTwist to help boost their natural SEO rankings for keywords which they are make currently spending large amounts of money on in AdWords.  ALS produce industrial labelling machines and systems for applying self-adhesive labels, security elements, tags and RFID inlets, to just about anything!

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SEO: Credau

This week we embarked on an initial 3 month long SEO campaign for Credau – a new contemporary menswear label which is 100% original, natural and recycled. Based in East London, the brand is dedicated to style and to supporting local industry with an entirely made-in-the-UK collection. The primary focus will be to drive targeted [...]

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SEO: Today Translations

This week we are embaking on a full 12 month Web Marketing campaign for Today Translations – a translation company offering language translation services in over 160 languages including specialist technical translations for the legal, financial and medical sectors.

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URL Rewriting – Worth doing or not?

Dynamic websites are becoming more and more common as companies and individuals are realising that the internet is the best way to do business these days, and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is becoming more of a widely used term by people who have joined the internet revolution are looking for ways to get the correct [...]

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