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 →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 →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 →I love Pandas, and a recent visit to @edinburghzoo did nothing but make me love them even more! And well erm, unlike most SEO’s I love the Panda Updates from Google! No seriously its removed so much crap from the web and ranking factors that actually life feels a little freeier, its like a things [...]
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 →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 →Lets you and I take a imaginary trip, on this trip you are the owner of a small business with an e-commerce website looking to improve and maintain the growth of website traffic and ultimately revenue. You want to really push the company forward but are unsure where to start with optimising your website to put it [...]
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 →Have you ever signed up to one of those online dating sites? It took me a couple of hours one wet Sunday afternoon to complete the profile, and in the time it took me to run to the loo, the site searched for my closest matches. Much to my disappointment, it found only one – one match in [...]
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 →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 [...]
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