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+1 your business with Google Plus

Google Plus (or Google+) is the search giants own social media platform which was launched in June of last year. It is estimated to be getting around an additional 625,000 new users each day and is changing the way Google works and how businesses are promoting their goods and services.

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If nothing else, the arrest of the Tchenguiz brothers on the 9th of March illustrated just how deeply digital communication has become embedded in the property sector. One of my abiding memories of MIPIM 2011 will be the astonished conversations that morning, most of which seemed to start with the passing of a smart phone and the question: “Have you seen this?!”

Warning: Google targets “low quality” websites.

In the past week Google, the world’s favourite search engine, has made some “pretty big” changes to its search algorithm in a move targeting “low quality” websites and punishing them by reducing their search engine rankings.

Online search – the biggest business story of the next decade?

The BBC's Rory Cellan Jones suggests that the battle between the old and new models of online search "is going to be one of the biggest business stories of the next decade". If so - what will be the impact on the marketing of commercial property and the services offered by property profesionals?

The ups and downs of online search

The volume of online searches conducted on Google that relate to commercial property in the UK have leveled out in recent months - but do undelying trends within the figures point to what the market is doing?