PC World and Currys staff abuse customers on Facebook
There have been some well documented and high profile mistakes recently using Facebook, such as the woman who was conned out of £2,500 on Facebook and the offensive shirt sold by Sports Direct which...
View ArticleHow important is backing up your website?
You’ve spent years developing your website, perfecting it. You’ve written on it every day and you’ve managed to get some great rankings in the SERPs through the use of regular content and SEO....
View ArticleShould you have a links page on your website?
While reading around some SEO blogs this week we noticed that some SEO companies are still advising clients that they feature ‘links pages’ on their websites. In some ways this is worrying, but in...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch wants to charge users to access NewsCorp websites
Rupert Murdoch and Homer Simpson Rupert Murdoch may be one of the most powerful men in the world when it comes to news publishing, but he’s proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that when it comes to the...
View ArticleHow the Internet really is an open marketplace
Despite the billions of websites on the Internet creating what would appear to be an extremely convoluted, competitive marketplace, the net is actually very open and accessible for anyone. Where it...
View ArticleHow to format content for SEO purposes
While reading around some SEO blogs this week, from some of the leading SEO companies in the UK, we came across a blog post advising how to write content for websites. The blog in question stated that...
View ArticleBuffy the Vampire Slayer’s guide to SEO
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, had seven glorious years on our TV screens battling the forces of darkness from demons to robots to gods, yet how would the Slayer and her Scooby gang cope with the arduous...
View ArticleHow many keywords should I SEO my website for?
The question of how many keywords you should SEO your website for is one that is faced by SEO companies and SEO professionals every day. Opinion is very much divided on the subject. Some SEO companies...
View Article7 Golden Rules for SEO
SEO is a rare combination of art and mathematics, meaning that a structured, ordered approach needs to be combined with a certain degree of flair and artistry. Even with something as organic and ever...
View ArticleHow to get your website banned by Google
Earlier this week we wrote the seven golden rules of SEO. These were rules that you should follow for a successful SEO campaign. What if you don’t want successful SEO though? What if you want to get...
View ArticleStereophonics crash Soccer AM website
One of the best ways to increase traffic to your website is to offer something for free. If you can marry this together with an announcement on television, you can guarantee that your Internet traffic...
View ArticleHow to optimise your Title Tag
We’ve written in the past about the importance of the Title Tag within SEO, but just how should it be optimised and how are some SEO companies optimising this tag? The Title Tag is perhaps the most...
View ArticleMurdoch to ditch Google in favour of Bing
As we first reported to you back on October 11th, Rupert Murdoch (the owner of News Corp) wants to ban Google from indexing the content on his websites because he doesn’t like the fact that his news...
View ArticleMatt Kelly knocks SEO then gets job running websites
Matt Kelly is the associate editor of the Daily Mirror and he famously knocked the entire SEO industry recently when he declared that SEO consultants should be knocked down a peg or two, and that...
View ArticleImproving conversions on your website
With 2009 almost over, many businesses will begin examining their advertising budgets for next year in relation to where they can cut costs, and where they need to increase spending. Internet marketing...
View ArticleWhat could be stopping your search engine rankings?
Having been in the Internet marketing industry for the last decade we have seen a great many websites. Some of these websites are well designed; some are not so well designed. Design aside though, one...
View ArticleA guide to bad reputation management
A few weeks ago we discovered something quite disturbing online. It’s disturbing for two reasons: firstly it’s an unethical thing for a company to do and secondly it’s incredibly naïve. What are we...
View ArticleWhy Web Designer / SEO is not a good job title
In the online job market, job titles, job descriptions and job roles have developed considerably over the past decade. There was a time when a job that involved building websites, incorporating design...
View ArticleSEO consultant or Salesman?
If you have enquired with an SEO company in the UK about using their SEO services, whether it’s in London, Birmingham or even on the Wirral, the chances are that you have spoken to an ‘SEO consultant’...
View ArticleA little SEO knowledge can be dangerous
Nobody likes to think of themselves as ignorant, but we’re all ignorant of some things. Perhaps it’s to do with cars, and when our cars go wrong we have no idea what the fault could be. Maybe it’s...
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