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Every time someone visits your website, there is the opportunity for them to become a customer, an influencer, a brand advocate, and a natural promotional tool. Are you providing the visitors to your website with these opportunities? One way to accomplish this is to offer visitors the chance to register using a social media sign-up. No doubt you will have seen many of the larger sites offering Facebook and Twitter sign-ups, but it is also an option which can be extremely fruitful for small to medium enterprises. In fact, many small businesses have grown rapidly because they have made themselves more accessible to larger numbers via social media sign-ups. Let’s look at the advantages of this form of customer registration. Continue reading
Recently there has been more news coverage about companies who have been found to have ‘fake’ followers on their social media accounts. It seems that despite the dangers of being discovered and tarnished as cheats, brands still believe that high numbers of followers, even if they are fake, are better than just a few real connections. Don’t believe it! Paying for fake followers can seriously harm the health of your brand. And more importantly, the Google bots will spot it. Fake likes on Facebook, Twitter and other ways to fake it, do not generate natural traffic. And since the arrival of Google Penguin, it is natural traffic that the bots are attracted to. Fakes will not help build a trusted relationship with your customers either. Although the site of many thousands of followers on a page may attract more followers initially, once they realise there is no real activity going on, and that all these ‘people’ come from the same geographic location, they will be much less impressed. In fact, a recent survey indicated that most customers severed ties completely with brands they found to be cheating or behaving in a dishonest way online. Continue reading
The Festive season is upon us so it’s time for another round of Top 10/20/50/100 breakdowns of the year. Yahoo has published a range of top ten charts this year, including top searches, top news items, top male and female celebrities and so on. Many of them are just for fun, but some of them can contain useful information, especially for content creators and SEO professionals. While not all of us are particularly interested in the latest developments from the Bieber/Cyrus universe, there is value in keeping an eye on the top trending topics and searches. This is especially true if you are a content creator, a website owner, or involved in SEO in any way – which is most of us these days. It matters, and this is why: We’re not sure if this is the official term for it, but we believe it’s like ‘surfing on the crest of a wave’. Here’s an example – Continue reading
How often do you change your website content? If your website has not been updated or changed since the day it was built, you need to seriously dedicate some time to it, today! As far as the Google bots are concerned, they are looking for websites with regular activity, clear and regular indications of two way communication, and natural traffic flows. If you are not updating your site and constantly attracting people to it, the bots will not pay as much attention to it and your rankings will not go up. There is no point having a beautiful website, if no one is visiting it. And why would your customers visit your website if you do not give it the daily and weekly attention it deserves? A company website is a reflection of that company’s brand, objectives and ethos. It should be a true reflection of the dynamic, hardworking nature of the business, not a static, dusty old virtual brochure. Continue reading
The posting of images for commercial use is big news this week. It is a hot topic amongst photographers, the creative industry, SEO professionals, marketing experts and website owners. Recently, a Photographer was awarded $1.2 million in compensation from companies that took his pictures from Twitter, and then used them for commercial purposes without his permission. The website owners and content creators amongst you will already know the importance of using Copyright free images, or images with the loyalties paid to their owner/originator. However, we are aware that many people are not fully aware about this area of copyright law, or what constitutes a copyright free image. Continue reading
SEO and content marketing are closely linked and dependent upon each other. So it always surprises us when we see business brands that employ SEO and content tactics which do not complement each other and operate separately. One of the best and most effective ways to influence your rankings on SEO is to create and share the right content. In the past, SEO professionals and content marketing specialists were separate entities, never speaking, or working with each other. Not so long ago, blog writers, website administrators, marketing managers and content creators all worked individually in their own areas. On occasion there may have been some overlap, but in most cases, these different tactics were being delivered without following any over-arching content marketing plan. Continue reading

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