Search Engine Optimisation is about increasing the natural or ‘organic’ ranking of your website in search engine results for specific keywords. When someone searches online for the products and services you offer, you want to appear above your competitors, or at least ensure your business is highly visible. A good SEO strategy will involve keyword optimisation, link building and measures to keep your content fresh, new and relevant.
Ever feel like you’re floundering in the digital seas? Like you’re just treading water when other businesses are thriving online? If you feel like a fish out of water with everything digital, we’ve got 3 essential beginner strategies to help you start to make waves on the web. Consumers are Evolving! But before we look […]
Google does not willingly share too many of its own search metrics but a data survey by Jumpshot with analysis from Rand Fishkin of Sparktoro (SEO legend) revealed a thing or two. In the first quarter of 2019, Google in the US had more than 150 billion searches, the majority of which were solved without […]
If you’re here, you’ve probably seen the vast swathes of blog posts, videos, podcasts, email mailouts and other such online content proliferating the business/marketing sphere. You may well be wondering something along the lines of: ”What’s that all about, then?” Alternatively, you might have a new website in the works and you may be wondering […]
SEO isn’t just about directly selling products. The objective of brand SEO is to create a network of STUFF that supports a customer’s decision-making process. Customers searching for your brand should find a whole lot of places in which your ethos, services, products and reputation are explorable. Getting your brand name onto page one of […]
We can all get a little over-confident that we know our customers’ journey by heart. They click an ad, come to the website, read some copy, add a product to the basket and buy. In reality, things are a lot messier than that – but User Explorer in Google Analytics can help. What is User […]
Voice-operated AI assistants like Google Home or Amazon Echo seem to be the latest niche tech trend to creep into mainstream usage, with 6.6 million people in the UK owning a smart speaker device (Source: YouGov 2018). What Voice Assistants Are Out There? But what does this development mean for small business owners looking to […]
Did you know 59% of senior executives said that if they were given text and video on the same topic, they’d rather watch the video? (Source: Digital Information World, 2016). And I don’t blame them! Personally, I find that watching a video about a tough topic often serves to embed the information in my mind […]
Anyone keen on shopping (both my hands are raised, somehow, as I type) may have noticed that retail apps like eBay and Aliexpress now offer visual search. Visual search isn’t new. Google’s been offering reverse image search for years, as the MTV show Catfish has been teaching us over and over for seven seasons. What […]
Google+ has about 2.2 billion user accounts and even up to a year ago Google+ was making updates to their platform, so it may have come as a shock to some regular users that it will be closing in April 2019. Even though Google+ has a high number of user accounts it is estimated that […]
Every year, search engines get smarter and smarter. Search algorithms remain a tightly kept secret but they move rather rapidly with the times. And for good reason. The past few years have completely changed the SEO landscape. The explosion of mobile internet use and the growing trend of voice operated assistants particularly spring to mind. […]