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Weekly internet update

With Search Engine Optimisation consultant Pascal Fintoni

News: Paul Wilson from iProspect wrote a couple of interesting articles about selecting the right search engine marketing agency, part 1 and part 2 are available online. Let me know what you think.

LookThemUp is a new online directory using customer reviews as core content for its business listings, still new and early birds may get a fair amount of coverage. Good luck to them.

Worldwide memberships in social networking sites are expected to reach 230 million by the end of 2007, but the growth in social networking will plateau by 2012. Find out more at marketingcharts.com.

Frequent online shoppers are becoming increasingly suspicious of reviews found on shopping sites following a survey of 1,000 online customers; read more in this report from Brandweek.

For many, retirement is an opportunity to start a business and become their own boss according to this report by marketingcharts.com – very US centric but you may find the stats interesting.

Story of the week: It’s always good to hear about people who are really making the internet work for their business and Deborah Brown in Sunderland has done just that. She’s already considering opening her second online store – just months after being named as a finalist in the YouTrade competition. Read more about her success at the North East Regional Portal website.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .