Business owners around the world often think that a domain is just an address for their website, they think they can pick anything and it won’t matter because it will work out well for them. But a domain is so much more than just an address. A domain is the first thing your potential customers see. A domain is on all of your business cards,…
SparkScore the New FREE Tool measuring Twitter Influence
Measuring influence on Twitter has never really been that easy, and tools such as KLOUT were always a bit hit and miss, plus they never told us much about how they did it – and Klout could be gamed. Earlier this year, after a fairly long lived life, Klout (which measured all your social media influence) died… bye Klout. Recently, founder of MOZ (the SEO…
Gadgets to Survive RSI
As someone who suffered with RSI, I look for the easiest ways to reduce the strain on my wrists all the time when working. Over the past few years I’ve found some really handy gadgets for the office that I wanted to share, most of them are affordable and all available on amazon for quick delivery. RSI is something for me that now comes and…
Google Speed Update rolls out for everyone
Earlier today Google began it’s full roll out of the Google Speed Update (having quietly updated this blog post from January). Google Speed Update only affects websites that deliver the slowest experience to web users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all web pages, regardless of technologies in use on the website or server. Google has made…
How to advertise Sex Toys on Social Media – Is it even possible?
It’s understandable that Social Media and Search Engines are somewhat squeamish about advertising and promotions around the adult category. In particular for Sex Toys, but as a digital marketer working for a media agency, I constantly but up against the challenge (and not just in this category) of ‘what can we do for the client’ whilst also a) not breaching the rules of a platform…
Happy Independents’ Day 2018
Celebrated alongside the US Independence Day, Independents’ Day is all about celebrating Independent businesses that ROCK! In my case I am not only celebrating my own business, but the business I work for Smithfields a Paid Media Agency who also now offer SEO in Manchester. In addition I am also celebrating all the fabulous Indies that I love to support, folks like Paper Tulips, Gracies…
Five Simple SEO Tips for Photographers
The fundamental building blocks of search engine optimisation haven’t changed in many years, there isn’t a single Google update which has changed them. In this article are five golden seo strategies which will not only see your rankings increase today but also going forward into 2016 and beyond. These are evergreen and easy to remember. 1) Only The Best Content Content is King, as someone…
Why Big Data Can Be A Big ZERO
23% of you will hate what I am about to say, 13% will be ambivalent, 55% will will agree with all you have (and 6% of those will be violently passionate about what I am saying) and very few of you will have noticed those numbers are made up and don’t add up to 100%… Now I have your attention for a few more seconds,…
SEO Questions Answered, Honestly
Answering common SEO questions honestly…
Top SEO Trends for 2018
We are just at the end of the first week of 2018 and it has struck me that 2018 is going to be a little different for SEO and the web world.