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Claire

Claire Taylor

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An Introduction to Google+

Google+ has been slow burn and as yet is a long way off taking over social platforms such as LinkedIn and Facebook, however, it’s not one to be ignored. There are some SEO benefits in adopting SEO and we will go over this in more detail in another blog post, for this one though we […]

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Negative SEO and Click Fraud- The Latest Weapons Online

Negative SEO is basically when various techniques are used to try and damage your online marketing campaign. We’ve been noticing an increase in this kind of practise, mainly because Google penalises sites for trying to manipulate the search engines. It opens up opportunities to damage your competitors whilst improving your own businesses success online. Personally […]

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Keyword Research – The key to success

Keyword research is so important, I can’t stress enough how much. Any kind of campaign online must never be attempted until you have a thorough understand of the things that people are actually physically typing into the search engines. All too often companies assume they know what people are looking for, but in reality it […]

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Designing Your Website’s Homepage

Your homepage is most likely the first page that people will visit, so when designing a home page for a website, it’s important to follow some tried and tested methods in terms of layout. Here are some tips for where certain elements should be placed on the page:

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Using Facebook to run competitions

Facebook is a great place to run a competition, research shows that they get a good response. But what do you need to think about before running one? Well the first thing is to understand your overall marketing aims, if you are looking to expand your customer reach and help build your brand then Facebook […]

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Using technology to keep your customers happy

Forget the whole fantastic customer service thing; we all know that that’s vitally important. But beyond that the thing that most people I know complain about is the lack of communication from their suppliers. It’s one of the fundamental rules of any relationship to keep the lines of communication open. Just think of all those […]

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Keyword Research – the beginning of the beginning

Sounds a bit melodramatic but Keyword Research is where it all starts out. If you are looking at lead generation and increasing traffic to your website then keyword research is a must. Before you do anything else you need to understand what people are physically typing into the search engines, you need to understand any […]

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Images on your Website – things to consider

The images you use on your website should be considered carefully, firstly make sure you have permission to use the image in the first place. If your business does not have its own images then using a resource such as IStock or Fotolia can help you get hold of photos that represent your business in […]

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Long Tailed Keywords

A long tailed keyword is basically a more descriptive version of a keyword, so instead of searching for ‘jacket’ you might search for ‘black leather jacket UK’. On an individual basis they do not account for a particularly large number of searches but they are far more likely to result in sales. In terms of […]

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