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Many people dream of starting their very own online store. The chance to make $1000’s by becoming the next big online retailer.
That dream quickly evaporates when they start looking into the complexities of setting up an online store. With website design, ecommerce platforms, merchant accounts and payment gateways to sort out – it quickly becomes too hard and too…
As is often the case, security is an afterthought, normally once you’ve already felt the pain of your website being compromised.
This blog post is testament to this fact. It was inspired by the fact one of my clients websites was recently hacked.
Many people don’t stop and consider the impact of having your website hacked. It can be compromised…
So you have a website, and you’re getting traffic – but the sales aren’t rolling in. Or maybe they are, but they’re not setting the world on fire.
All too often websites are built with little or no consideration given to their usability. And this is often the critical difference between good and great websites.
For those of you unfamiliar…
Why is it that so many local businesses keep ignoring SEO?
It continues to baffle me. SEO is proven to work, and with a local focus, is a really cost effective way to drive customers to shops and businesses. Yet business owners continue to throw money away at antiquated marketing strategies and ignore SEO.
I can only put…
Normally we give you a tips on how to improve your rankings, but sometimes it’s just as important to know what you shouldn’t be doing.
So this week I’m giving you a list of the top ways to KILL your rankings. Obviously this isn’t your goal, so avoid these tactics at all cost!
1. Cloaking
It’s the process…
We all know content is king for SEO, but sometimes it’s hard to get inspired. This infographic gives you 22 great ways to get your content juices flowing. Thanks to the Marketing Tech Blog for creating the image:
The interwebs has been abuzz over a “newly interesting” web based pinboard service called Pinterest.
I say it’s “newly interesting” as Pinterest is hardly new, having launched back in 2010 – but it’s definitely been generating a lot more discussion of late. And this is probably because the service has moved from being just a novel web pinboard…
Are you monitoring what people are saying about your company and products online? Is anyone even talking about your business?
Without the right tools, it can be a nightmare trying to keep tabs on who’s saying what and where they’re saying it.
And if you can’t see what they’re saying and where they’re saying it, how are you supposed to…
What a great little infographic to help explain the myriad of changes made through Google’s Panda Updates – and some tips on how to improve your sites performance in light of the changes.
Thanks to the team at Singlegrain for creating the infographic.
We found this nifty little infographic this morning. The clever people over at Flowtown and Column Five have put it together.
While it misses a few obvious networks (e.g Linkedin), it’s a great primer for small business owners getting into social media.
Enjoy.