Today we spotted Google testing Half Page Site Previews on both standard website listings and mega sitelinks. Personally, I think they are an improvement on the current previews as they are much neater and less disjointed, but we shall see how they fair over the coming weeks.

Google Half Page Site Preview – Single Listing

Google Half Page Site Preview – Mega Sitelink Listing

In a continuation of our growth into one of the biggest digital marketing agencies in the UK, we are delighted to announce our appointment by Ringtons Beverages.

Ringtons Beverages is the wholesale and UK supplier division of Ringtons Ltd supplying tea, coffee and machinery nationally to cafes, hotels, restaurants, offices, conferences and banqueting facilities.

Mediaworks plan to assist in improving Ringtons’ online presence with a tailored search engine optimisation campaign aiming to achieve success through a vast selection of vertical searches, including wholesale tea & coffee.

Established in 1907, Ringtons is a family business that started out as a doorstep delivery service in the North East.

Now a fifth generation family business, we are hoping to help Ringtons to continue to grow by increasing their online revenue will the full force of our online marketing expertise.

Now that it’s March and the darkness of the winter months has lifted Mediaworks are pleased to announce they will be assisting the British public in getting back out into the world via their new partnership with leading outdoor clothing specialists, Cotswold Outdoors.

As part of this new affiliation Mediaworks will be providing a bespoke SEO campaigns to help Cotswold Outdoor climb to the heady peaks of Google’s search engine result for a myriad of competitive phrases. That means complex bespoke link building strategies, fully optimised on-page content and a raft of other in-house specialist services to help them compete online as the UK’s #1 outdoor clothing specialist.

Cotswold Outdoor was founded in 1974 and has since grown into one of the UKs leading outdoor clothing specialists. With Mediaworks on board we know we can take them to the next level. So make sure to watch this space as our specialist team eagerly begins work on this wonderful campaign.

The staff at Mediaworks have dusted off their running shoes and trained muscles they never knew existed in preparation for the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile – a UK charity event helping change lives across the UK and in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Sport Relief 6-Mile Run

On Sunday, 25th March, 2012 a team of Mediaworks employees are aiming to raise a tonne of cash for Sport Relief by partaking in the Sport Relief Mile 2012 and undertaking a sponsored 6-mile run across Newcastle & Gateshead.

What makes this all the more special is our Sport Relief Mile team include non-runners and gym-shy individuals willing to put themselves through a 6-mile run in order to help others who are less fortunate around the world.

Although we will be training hard, we need your help to make a difference on this Sport Relief Mile!

Sponsor The Mediaworks Team

We would love it if you would sponsor us to help us raise money for Sport Relief.  Sponsor our team today at https://my.sportrelief.com/sponsor/mediaworks/donate or sponsor an individual.

Who Will You Be Helping?

In the UK, Sport Relief supports young people, old people, local communities, refugee and asylum seeking women, victims of domestic and sexual abuse and people with mental health issues.

Internationally, Sport Relief supports people living in slums, people affected by conflict, street and working children, people affected by HIV and Aids and many other people in desperate situations.

Just £5 could buy new clothes for a child living or working on the streets of Napal and £50 could feed 100 vulnerable street children in India for one day. £500 could provide a young carer in the UK with one to one support for a full year, to help them cope with their huge responsibilities at home and help them to keep up at school.

Want To Help?

We would love you to share our sponsorship attempts to help us make as much money as possible for Sport Relief, so to help you we’ve enabled you to easily share it on your favourite social networks using our share buttons.

Thanks for helping support our Sport Relief Mile 2012 fundraising attempt.

Emma Adcock will be joining us as a Customer Relationship Manager, where she will be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with our clients as we develop online marketing strategies. She previously worked for Black &White Advertising as part of their marketing team.

Joining our copywriting team is Katherine Weir, who recently graduated from Sunderland University with a Masters in Magazine Journalism, and Emma Pearson, who recently graduated with a Masters in News Journalism, also at Sunderland University. Their role within the company involves optimising website content and writing informative content for our clients.

Jonathan Birch is our new Online Marketing Executive, who will be liaising with journalists, publications and news sources to develop and promote the online presence of our clientele. He recently graduated from Northumbria University with a Masters in Cultural Management, focusing on marketing techniques used by different sectors.

We also welcome Marty Hayes as our new Senior Digital Strategist. Marty graduated from Newcastle University with a degree in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies, and since graduating has worked primarily in Ecommerce at Ethical Superstore, Berghaus and Fashion Union. In his new role he will be working closely with Daniel Hoggan, our Head of Search, to maximise the impact that Mediaworks can make across our key accounts, resulting in increased traffic and revenue for our clients.

As well as the above, we also welcome Michael Finnigan to our SEO Copywriting team, David Winn as an inhouse developer, Marc Cranston to our sales team and William Cook as a new SEO Executive.

The latest recruits will be on hand to help us expand the business even further, continuing our success and hard work for the unbelievable portfolio of clients we have. Now seen as one of the largest digital marketing agencies in the UK, it’s never been a better time to join Mediaworks.

Managing Director of Mediaworks, Brett Jacobson, won Young Business Executive of the Year 2011 at the 28th North East Business Executive of the Year Awards, run by The Journal and the Evening Gazette, which took place at the Newcastle Marriott Hotel, Gosforth Park on Thursday, 17th November 2011.

Shortlisted alongside Sarah Gregory, MD of Springhill Farm Accommodation and Will Ryles, founding director ofDovcor, Brett was pleased with the win just four years after starting the North-East’s leading search engine optimisation company, Mediaworks.

Speaking of the win, Brett said “It’s an honour and a great achievement which I’m very proud of. To be honest though the credit needs to go to the team at Mediaworks as without their fantastic support and determination this wouldn’t have been possible“.

Being named Young Business Executive of the Year 2011 comes on the back of the biggest year of growth and success for Mediaworks; Nominations at the prestigious UK Search Awards for Best SEO Agency and Best Use of Search: Retail, the appointment by several leading companies including Viking Direct, Alfred Dunhill, Regus, Deuter and Grainger Games and the continual expansion of the business into a multi-million pound success has made 2011 a memorable year for Brett and the staff at Mediaworks.

Winners of the North East Business Executive Awards 2011 including Brett Jacobson, MD of Mediaworks (3rd from left)

Create an Open Site Explorer Bookmarklet

To create your Open Site Explorer Bookmarklet for Firefox, simply follow the steps below:

1. Right click on a blank Toolbar or your existing Bookmark Toolbar
2. Choose “New Bookmark”
3. Choose a Name.  We chose ‘OSE! Links’
4. Decide on the version and paste the relevant code into Location:
   - Same Window Version:  javascript:location.href='http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/'+location.host+'/a!links'
   - New Tab Version: javascript:(function(){ window.open('http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/'+location.host+'/a!links');})()
5. Add additional descriptions, keywords or notes you require and click Save.

You now have access to Open Site Explorer’s inbound link count direct from any website that you are visiting at the click of a button.

Additional Open Site Explorer Sections

You can also change the location in the bookmarklet above to access the additional sections such as:

Linking Domains:  javascript:location.href='http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/'+location.host+'/a!domains'
Anchor Text Distribution:  javascript:location.href='http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/'+location.host+'/a!anchors'
Full list of Link Metrics:  javascript:location.href='http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/'+location.host+'/a!metrics'

It appears that so long as you are logged in with your SEOmoz account you should be able to access to the full 1,000 (free) or 10,000(PRO) links straight away. If you haven’t used Open Site Explorer yet, we would highly recommend it.