ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a best-selling children’s books author but it looks like what she will be remembered for is for using social media to bring her unruly daughter into line.
A new RJ Metrics study is revisiting the old “Google Plus is a Ghost Town” chestnut alongside the “weak user interaction metric” which has them cover two bases rather than one.
I have lost count of the number of times I have been in meetings where I have been introduced to junior staff as “the troops” (the implication being that their bosses are then, generals). The marketing strategy then has been referred to as “our plan of attack”, the competition as “the enemy” and the marketplace as “the arena”.
Traditionally, hosting, has always been an afterthought in the webmaster’s SEO planning. Because hosting is extremely technical (even more so than SEO as a matter of fact) few people feel competent enough to critically assess it and...
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It is just six days ago that I questioned whether Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype would make the latter a better social media tool and now it has gone and crashed, locking millions out of connections with loved ones...
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The content you put on your website should always be intended to help human visitors first and search engine bots a far second. The Google Panda update has made sure that unless your website is a leader in its field...
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One of the practical questions I was emailed recently asked me to explain multi-level backlink building. Well, link building is quite an old SEO technique. At its simplest form think of it like a recommendation for your site (through a...
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It’s been a hectic week so if you have not yet had the chance to catch up with what’s important here is a quick digest with links to all the relevant posts.
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One of the most frequently asked questions a business asks itself is ‘How do I increase the market share of my business?’. I have seen enough businesses in action in different types of economies to know that the problem is...
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When it comes to great ideas I have had the privilege, in my professional life, to come across hundreds. One of the most poignant ones in terms of potential which came across my path was floated by a Texas entrepreneur...
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Google instant, the instant suggestions made by Google which are designed to save us time, is also an instant source of trending issues on the web. Because the suggestions are based on a combination of factors one...
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Every time I attend an SEO convention, give a talk on SEO or discuss search engine optimisation in a business environment I am asked the same question: Why is SEO work so difficult? I am going to be disingenuous...
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