Last week I posted about Website Design and SEO being hand in hand, the perfect match making the perfect website. The guys over at @roi_media posted this great infographic. It does a good job of showing the workings of the perfect website in it’s simplest form today. If you enjoy the infographic do hit tweet [...]
Continue Reading →It’s hard to believe that Stumble Upon one of the first real social bookmarking sites is still so popular. But statistics show that with a Facebook almost 400X that of Facebook and Twitter, Stubmle Upon is here to stay! Most people thought that Facebook links have longevity, they don’t – they have a few hours [...]
Continue Reading →One of the most common questions I ask is why I have used a certain colour for a certain logo of certain part of a design. The answer can be as simple as ” its what your style guide says i MUST do” but thankfully it’s more often the start of a communication that can [...]
Continue Reading →Back in 2005 social media was the new buzzword, MySpace was doing the rounds and so was Bebo, each taking on the world and sharing things with friends. There was whispers about this new network called Facebook! Fast forward a few years and MySpace and Bebo suffered a huge downfall following the rise of Facebook, [...]
Continue Reading →Pinterest is an online pin board for photos and graphics of things people love and are passionate about. What Pinterest is not is a marketing tool for self promotion, indeed point three of the Etiquette of Pinning asks you not to purely use Pinterest for self promotion. So in essence Pinterest is a social platform for sharing [...]
Continue Reading →How big is Google? Since February 24, 2011, the SEO world has been littered with mixed feelings about the infamous Panda Updates. There are several factors that need to be cleared up as I believe that the poor Panda got a bit of a bad rap. You already know good news is great and bad [...]
Continue Reading →Having spotted this easter egg yesterday I wanted to share it with the world today. One of Google’s little known tools is it’s ability to draw a graph from a search, but its quite a nice little utility if a tad odd to be used within search. Anyway @Google and @andykinsey love you lots, so [...]
Continue Reading →Working as a web designer and an SEO consultant one of my hobbies as been to try and educate other web designers and SEO’s that optimisation and design do go hand in hand. This was a topic covered in a post over 2 years ago by Aaron Irizarry (@aaroni268) called Hand in Hand – design for optimisation. [...]
Continue Reading →One of the ways I ensure my web design skills and internet marketing skills are always moving forward and are up to date is listening to podcasts. There are many of them, and maybe one day I will do a post about them. But today I was listening to The Big Web Show (podcast 62: Kristofer [...]
Continue Reading →One of my favourite tools for doing basic SEO testing of a website is Hubspot Website Marketing Grader, they also have some other neat tools. So today reading their marketing blog I was excited to come across what is possibly the worlds longest infographic about the history of marketing. A subject I intent to delve [...]
Continue Reading →Last year I posted about how to create an awesome business card design and recommended a few printers for business cards. I also posted 25 awesome business card designs. One of the printers I recommended and continue to recommend is Moo.com Moo.com offer what I can only describe as a luxury touch without the price [...]
Continue Reading →I received an email a few weeks ago from a regular reader of SEOAndy. The email asked the question posed in the title of this article: What is the best title and description for my site?. The answer I gave back was rather brief and included a link to an old post I wrote about meta tags. But [...]
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