When Google made personalised search a reality by introducing Google+ results into Search, creating “Search, Plus Your World” (or Search+ for everyone outside of the Googleplex), the world went mental. To recap, when you do a search on Google.com now you don’t just get global results, you also get personalised results from your Circles on [...]
Continue Reading →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 →Selling online is not easy normally, and even less so in this economic down turn. But with the use of 10 simple seo secrets to online selling you can not just improve your online sales by a few percent but by a huge amount. It’s About The Product! Just because you spent hundreds or thousands [...]
Continue Reading →With the escalating competition in the web arena, it has become more important than ever to improve your SEO methodologies and take them to a higher level. The success of your website depends on how well you portray it before search engines and target visitor. Although there is a need to adopt new methods for [...]
Continue Reading →The pace of innovation over the past decade or so has been amazing. Do you recall 1999? Sure you do, when Google didn’t rule the world and Lycos or Altavista was the search engine of choice? Think of the mobile phone you had, did you even have one? If you did no doubt it was [...]
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 →Not so long ago the question businesses were asking was “Why should I waste my time and money on social media?”. The question they ask now is “Where should I invest my time and money on social media?”. That’s a dramatic change of attitude in a relatively short space of time – less than two [...]
Continue Reading →WordPress is by far an away the most popular of Blogging Platforms and come to think of it Content Management Systems (CMS) overall. Say “wordpress” to any website owner and they will usually turn around saying oh that’s for blogging – this means for the most part as an unscientific metric that wordpress is quite [...]
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 →Yesterday, Google+ released the long awaited Google+ Pages for Business … whoop! But it was more of a damp squib than a celebration, as people began to create them we soon realised that something wasn’t right. The pages were being created but they look exactly like normal profile pages. Here is my own Google+ Profile [...]
Continue Reading →As you may suspect during the run up to and during the holiday season website traffic (across the board) increases fairly dramatically. This again as you may guess is down to people looking for and buying gifts. But one question I am always faced with is how best to leverage this extra traffic, both at say [...]
Continue Reading →Many of my recent discussions have been about SEO Local Search. This in turn lead to my recent post about best practices when setting up Google Places for your business. But one of the more contentious and rapidly more talked about factors in local search is our lovely friends at the Yellow Pages and Thomson Local. Dont forget [...]
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