User Interfaces and Bad Experiences

Few businesses really spend enough time on user experience. They think they do, but they don’t – they normally put their needs first and then are surprised when the response is different to what they expected. For smaller businesses much of what they do has to involve some educated guesswork, but it is encouraging that […]

5 Top Mistakes to Avoid in S.E.O.

The ‘art’ of SEO is discussed a lot… but the main issue that is often avoided, which is: ‘is it worth it?’ In this article we tackle this question and offer up the five biggest mistakes you can make when thinking about SEO. 1. YOU NEED HELP GETTING TOP FOR YOUR BRAND NAME As long […]

Gamification – You Know The Score!

Yes, it’s another horrible made-up word… ‘Gamification’  which already has a Wikipedia page, and is likely, in due course to enter one or more English language dictionaries. Why all the fuss? Well, it’s the use of gaming mechanics to make boring bits of life more interesting (to paraphrase the 1,000+ words on Wikipedia). So, if […]

5 Checks: Is Your Site Passive or Active?

A passive site is a website which doesn’t work in the content of the site to develop new opportunities for business growth. It lacks offers, calls to action, links and marketing messages and, as a result, gives visitors every opportunity just to walk away. Here are five quick tests you can take to find out […]

Old Media Fight Back, Or Game Over?

These are both exciting and challenging times as the print media still tries to make revenue out of its’ failings. You could see this as the 12th round of a particularly intense boxing match, with the old champ on the ropes, face bloodied… knowing that returning fire is the only option. The Case for Print […]

How to Value Search Engine Optimisation

One of the common concerns we have with Search Engine Optimisation is that few businesses are fully informed of how to measure the value of performing optimisation and the benefits. The ‘Con’ First Often you’re led to believe that getting to page one of Google is ‘it’ for a reasonably specific keyword phrase, and that […]

How to Spot an Adwords Hustle

This is the second time in as many months that we have come across this kind of activity. So we decided to post about it, just to forewarn visitors of this kind of activity. The Hustle ‘Search Marketing Agency X’ contacts you and says to you that they can get you ‘top of Google’ for […]

Generating Website Content = Slicing & Dicing

We all can see the way that the web is heading – towards relevant content. To a certain extent, this is a good thing, even if abused – because if a website is working hard to put out good content, then the chances are it’s is worth visiting. Rather like the SEO principle that good […]

Local Marketing – More Than Just Google?

On the face of it, it’s easy to get into the idea that Local Marketing for businesses involves either using local targeting in AdWords or ‘Google Local’ search results (where the map appears in Google when you search for something with a placename). However, this is just the tip of the iceberg, there is a […]

Effective Text Linking

One thing which is a constant surprise to us is that many websites don’t even do the simple stuff that well. This starts with the links in the page. The first mistake is that there aren’t any. What is the point of writing content on a site which has no relevance to other areas of […]

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