In a week when the EU clamped down on web security Microsoft have woken up to the shock that the EU competition commission have fined the global enterprise a record $1.4bn dollars for failure to end anti-competitive business practices

If you've just shelled out an uncharacteristically exorbitant amount of money on a new HD TV then you will probably be mortified to here that the Japanese have already developed new technology that is set to replace it.

Music downloads become cheaper as Amazon encroach on iTunes and Apple bow to EU law Online music downloads are set to become cheaper in the UK as Amazon sign a deal to sell tracks that lack copy protection and Apple announce they will cut iTunes prices.

2007 was the year of Facebook, the Apple iPhone and the Nintendo Wii. So what's in store for 2008?

Norwegian software firm, Opera, has filed a complaint to the European Commission against Microsoft for anti-competitive behaviour by bundling Internet Explorer packages with their programme. Opera have also said that Microsoft have refused to obey web standards making it impossible for browsers to be interoperable.

HMV have responded to predictions that the CD market set to decline by 10% per annum by embracing the gaming market.

Plans to unite the internet and telephone network are under way. Nominet the company that administer the .uk internet domain have begun work to interconnect the networks.

American web analysts Nemertes Research have predicted a bleak future for Internet users as high demand for bandwidth threatens to exceed Internet capacity.

The Apple iPhone has arrived in Europe 74 days after being released in the US where sales have hit 1.4million.

As people all over the country prepare let off fireworks to celebrate the execution of Guy Fawkes the staff at High Position have their own reason to cheer.

Bill Gates' right hand man Steve Ballmer has outlined the future of Microsoft as "advertising, advertising, advertising!".

On Wednesday (24/10/07) Mark Zuckerberg sold a 1.6% stake in his social networking site Facebook to Microsoft for $240million setting the value of the company at $15billion.

On the 8th of October 2007 the Google share price crossed the $600 dollar mark. It represented a landmark to traders and exceeded the expectations of market analysts. The company share prices have gained 41% this year.

The news is good for High Position as market trends demonstrate record growth in online advertising for the first half of 2007.

High Position are pleased to announce a working partnership with Pillar Data in respect of our search engine compliancy services. Pillar Data are based both in the UK and in the US and have offices also in Ireland and Japan.

Pagerank is also known as PR and has been around for much longer than most people think, in fact it has been around as long as Google itself, it has been responsible for driving sites up or down the rankings in Google and is obsessively monitored by millions of website owners and webmasters around the world.

Ever since the infamous Florida update in Google the corporate world has concentrated on pushing its marketing budget into paid search largely ignoring natural search as a driver for visitors.

High Positions partnership with Denby Pottery has continued to develop from strength to strength.

2006 was a year of growth and unbridled success for High Position. Their were a number of client acquisitions some large corporate clients and some not so large organisations, however they all wanted to expand their websites with the added benefit of being visible within search engines organic or natural listings and High Position is the ideal partner.

High Position has successfully moved to its new address. High Position House, Crispin Court North Hill, Colchester, Essex. CO11DZ Email: sales@highposition.net Telephone:(+44) 01206 544677

When evaluating a proposal from any company offering a CMS solution it is important to consider how flexible it is for SEO practice, it is imperative that this is established at the outset as it is not an enjoyable experience when a site is built to discover that it cannot perform in natural search.

Nowhere is the problem more acute than proprietary E-Commerce platforms, in many cases these facilities would be better if they were ring fenced so that the pages cannot be indexed by search engine spiders.

So what is the single biggest issue with the majority of CMS’s?

In a survey of fifteen high budget CMS platforms none were found to be truly SEO friendly, all are sold on a promise of SEO functionality and in the worst cases they would send a website into search oblivion within weeks.

The problems faced by Corporate Businesses in their quest for high natural search profile are immense, the lack of functionality in content management systems for SEO is usually terminal for search profile.

After an intensive year of achieving high targets we closed the door on 2006 with five huge client acquisitions. These new clients have tracked our success in natural search with other leading companies and have now placed their trust in High Position.

We have put a structure in place now to enable us to answer the questions more fully and we will publish these on a regular basis. High Position do not want to run an independent forum as we believe that the existing forums are a fantastic resource and so this will remain a strict ask an expert service that is managed in house.

It has been the leading issue for many UK businesses for some months – Google dropping the homepage on .com and .net websites that are hosted in the UK.

High Position is a Digital Media Agency that specialises in Organic SEO. Due to expansion it has now become important to control and enhance all client information through an analytical statistical programme and therefore an analytics manager is sort to fulfill this position.

During the .com boom of 1999 and 2000 there were huge sums of money invested into the Internet, much of which was lost. We are now in the middle of a far larger boom however this time it has been founded on real probability and detailed information.

The last year has seen great strides in new directions with the advent of the mobile, podcast, music and video demand from the worldwide population.

The advance of Google after the millennium had also been meteoric but Yahoo has always been fundamentally different, the Yahoo-ite is a member of a true community, a community that Yahoo has served and embraced for many years.

Overture and Kelkoo were also acquired by Yahoo with both becoming great success stories, Overture was to become Yahoo Marketing whilst Kelkoo was to become the jewel in the crown of online shopping portals.

The history of the Internet is littered with fantastic new innovations and new portals that are popularized by millions of users, every year some new innovation explodes onto the Internet and large search facilities then acquire them.

Over the next few years the Yahoo search engine and directory grew and gradually moved into a worldwide resource with versions for many countries from different continents.

Yahoo started life back in 1994, its humble beginnings were the confines of a university campus trailer, Yahoo started life as a collection of favorites put together by a couple of clever chaps called David Filo and Jerry Yang.

For a long time the leaders in search positioning have been shouting from the roof tops that their form of marketing far exceeds other sources for really introducing visitors to a company or brand.

High Position will provide a free and no strings attached compliancy check on your website. For more information on compliance services please phone 01206 835117

SEO has for some time now been the difference between a website actually working and disappearing into the black whole known as the Internet. You can have the best website in the World but if no one can find it then it may as well not be there at all! Of course the user experience must be good and efficient but it is the hardest thing to get the people in, in the first place.

Did you know that having your server set up incorrectly can prevent your website from getting listed in search engines such as Google?

Where did it all begin? Well for many of us it was back in 1996, although a degree of SEO was practiced in the United States prior to that.

Is the retail industry really missing the full picture when it comes to online visibility? As detailed in Technology Weekly

The decision by Google to comply with Chinese law and therefore operate within their censorship laws has made many an Internet savvy person raise an eyebrow towards what has always been a non compromising approach to freedom of speech.

The first question on any marketing directors lips when organic seo is being discussed is ‘what’s the prize’? In other words what’s the return of investment going to be?

Use the form above to verify the IP address of your domain (website). A handy tool to use when you simply can't remember which server your website is hosted on.

IP Address lookup, find out your computers IP (internet Protocol address).Your IP (internet Protocol address) is your defining address that identifies your computer connection to the internet.

Check your servers headers and verify its response status with High Position's new automated web server header checker tool!

Use the non-www checker to see whether your website is correctly set up to forward non-www requests.

The position checker automatically searches the top 100 results of the 3 major search engines Google, MSN and Yahoo to give you the precise positioning of your site for the key phrase of your choice.

Check to see your sites visibility with High Position's Search Engine Visibility tool. As you well know it’s very important to know your current positioning or your site.

This is the view of many webmasters and SEO companies who are trying to explain why their clients sites are vanishing from search results.

Gaining search positions in Google (or Google SEO as the industry now calls it) is quite straightforward, it's all about using an ethical approach and providing unique information that is high quality but from a website that is compliant to Google’s guidelines.

How to correctly set a 301 Redirect on your domain name Using IIS 6.00

By utilising the main online news resources you can maximise the potential of targeted traffic to your website, this article highlights the importance of targeted press releases and how to structure and then optimise them.