Over the past few years I’ve been lucky enough to guest blog around the web, on a variety of subjects related to design, seo and marketing. Last year I opened the doors to let my child out to play and offered the chance to guest post on SEOAndy. From my experience of writing and being [...]
Continue Reading →Search Engine Optimisation is a fickle business, I hear moans all the time from “seo experts” and website owners that Google did this and Bing did that and subsequently they have no visitors … oh this is the hardest year ever to be an SEO … etc. Whilst not denying this year and the previous [...]
Continue Reading →Trends are something that can and do make a huge difference to our every day lives. Each year more and more retailers take advantage of trends, to the extent that we now are seeing (and sometimes complaining) about the continual seasonal products stacked on the shelves of supermarkets. For example in early September, John Lewis stores were [...]
Continue Reading →In the world of the web the navigation of a website is paramount to getting users to where they want and ultimately where you want them to be. Navigation is an essential tool in the arsenal of a Website Designer and Internet Marketer. Navigation is like a map, it directs people to pages of importance [...]
Continue Reading →This post is the product of a recent spate of enquiries I received, in essence each wanting to know How to optimise Google Places. However, my experience is that Google Places is pretty hard to optimise, this is because Google wants all businesses to supply the same data (great) and it will then bring your result [...]
Continue Reading →When writing content something we are all guilty of is “second guessing“, if you don’t understand what I mean think about this – When you blog about something you think people will want to read, you are second guessing the wants of your audience. Second guessing can be good and bad, it depends how well [...]
Continue Reading →With Social Media booming, the world of Personal Branding on the web has become something of a hot topic for myself when talking to some clients. Indeed, lets just say there are some interesting thoughts and experiments coming out of these discussions. Today I want us to think about Personal Branding (or public relations) and [...]
Continue Reading →The name of your company can decide it’s future, if it’s a shop it can mean people will walk past or walk in, if your an online business it can instill trust or fear into a user – whatever your brand name it is the most important of any business and choosing the perfect brand name isn’t [...]
Continue Reading →Lots of questions stock piled, so I will attempt to answer as many as I can over the next few weeks and months. I can’t promise they will all be answered but I will do my best. Details on where to send your questions are below this post. Question 1 : Mark, Birmingham Having read [...]
Continue Reading →Now… I’ve neglected design for a while, focused on the “development” of existing sites. And its not just me that has been doing this, and there is a valid reason… there is less money in web design & development so less people are willing to spend money on a new site when a few changes [...]
Continue Reading →10 Simple things to avoid during your SEO process.
Get a more detailed view of things that destroy your seo chances here: http://andykinsey.com/top10-destroying-seo/2009/
Ok over the past few weeks I’ve been chatting to a few people about the make-up of a URL. From use of top-level domains to use of special characters in a domain. From these chats I’ve come up with my “top 10 rules for designing urls” list.
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