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…There can be no further doubt that it’s mainstream. Yes, a discussion around search engine optimisation has featured on never-ending Radio 4 farming-community soap opera The Archers. You’re probably wondering ...

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As a self-confessed grammar geek, I’m frequently dismayed by the sloppy standard of writing I am continually confronted with throughout the course of the seven days a week I spend ...

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Automating Google Adwords accounts using APIs is a great way to save time and improve efficiency on large and complex accounts. However in my opinion, the success of paid search ...

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In recent months I have found myself using the Google URL builder tool significantly more across a range of projects, including tracking emails and tagging PPC accounts. One of the ...

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As the importance of SEO becomes increasingly widely recognised, millions more marketers have started churning out press releases. Unfortunately, many seem less concerned about the potential media coverage than about ...

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The SEO company will put on a webinar every day from March 22-25, covering the gamut of SEO services. SALT LAKE CITY – March Madness usually brings images of basketballs, full stadiums, raucous crowds, and athletes cutting down nets. Now, it could also be synonymous with online marketing. For the second straight year, SEO.com is hosting ... Read more

Image credit:  Flickr Despite a tough economic backdrop and widespread fears over delivery times, this was another season of growth for UK online retail. It may seem a little early to be thinking about Christmas again already, but given that careful planning is often hailed as the key to success, what can you start doing [...]

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SEO.com releases whitepaper outlining a radical change in marketing spending across the country, and identifies the return on investment for search marketing.
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Today I presented at a4uexpo London on 40 Social Media Tools and WordPress Plugins. This was split equally between the two sections and I’ve shared the slides and individual links, plus provided a very quick summary for each below. a4uexpo – 40 Social Media Tools & WordPress Plugins Top 20 Social Media Tools Hootsuite – [...]

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This post is part of the #JUMPchallenge, a blogging competition designed raise awareness on how to join up online and offline marketing, launched to support Econsultancy’s JUMP event. Image credit: Flickr It’s essential that the different elements of your marketing reinforce one another if your budget is going to generate the highest possible returns. Search marketing, traditional marketing [...]

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Use Google Analytics custom segments to audit and improve search marketing

Anyone who has ever reviewed the keywords attracting visitors to a site will have seen that brand search terms usually dominate, often accounting for more than 50% of search related visits for well-known brands.
Every site has associated brands, but to paraphrase Morrisey, some brands are [...]

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This list is not meant for the average small business owner. These 46 CRO/Conversion Rate Optimization resources require web design, SEO and social media experts to implement, use or even understand them.
How do you find out whether your web designer, SEO or social media consultant or company has enough expertise to deal with [...]

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We all love case studies. Who is we? We in the SEO industry, we in social media and online marketing, we business people. Case studies show on real life examples, real websites, projects and campaigns that something works.
Good case studies are more than proof though. They also show you how to [...]

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Google have announced this week at SES New York the introduction of AdWords Search Funnels. The conversion attribution problem has been heavily discussed during the last year and this led me to think of a quote which was on Twitter a while ago, (I think it was from Chris Lake – correct me if I’m [...]

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Google Trends for Tumblr, Digg and StumbleUpon
Last year I made about 30 predictions on Web trends for 2009. Many of them came true, others, of course, did not. Still even in those cases the ideas from the Web trends list were useful. Even those trends that disappeared from the radar or haven’t got main stream [...]

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30 Web Trends to Watch in 2010

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Around 5 years ago I read the book Who Moved my Cheese. It’s a very simple, short story about the different methods of dealing with change. I’ve recently re-read this, (it only takes about an hour so I’d definitely recommend reading if you haven’t already) – but I realised that there’s a lot which can [...]

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7 Reasons Why You Need to Deal With Search Engine Marketing Change

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If you’re about to embark on an online marketing campaign, have you actually thought about what you want to achieve?
Last week, I was reading Patricio Robles’ excellent article 10 reasons people criticise SEO. Among the many comments left on the post was one suggesting that many clients don’t really know what it is they want [...]

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What do you want from your online efforts?

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To be or not to be
A recent statistic has opened my eyes. While I still somehow assumed to be an early adopter of social media in its still early days a Forrester Research study has shown that 80% of US Internet users use social media in one or more ways. While most of them are [...]

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Nowadays lowering bounce rates and increasing conversion rates are two or rather one (as both are closely tied together) of the main tasks that modern SEO is about.

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It’s obvious: Rankings and traffic do not mean much when the website visitors bounce off and you fail to convert them to buyers, subscribers or [...]

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Females aged between 35 and 49 are the fastest-growing group within social networks and blogging sites, according to recent research by Neilson. So how can marketers ensure they are effectively selling to women?

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Before I begin this post, let’s get a few things straight. I do not believe that women are completely different [...]

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Marketing to women on the World Wide Web

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Twitter just redesigned its homepage? You probably read about it but did you notice any changes? Probably not unless you don’t use Twitter at all.
The “revamped homepage” as some pundits put it can only be seen when you’re not logged in.
I already wondered what strange marketing tactic this is when StumbleUpon has done that, relaunching [...]

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Twitter Friday: Twitter Redesign – Did you Notice it?

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SEOptimise will be at the Online Marketing Show this week at Olympia in London, so make sure you come and visit our stand.
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Yesterday I wrote a post on Econsultancy about why not selling online can damage your brand. This does sound very obvious, but it’s surprising how many well-known UK brands and even high-street retailers do not manage to get this right online.
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A friend of mine recently told me that his new boss refuses to market the firm’s website because she thinks internet advertising is a ‘flash in the pan’.
When my poor friend eventually got a word in edgeways, he said he understands the value of the internet as a marketing platform but needs to explain this [...]