How Cute! Softer Panda Update to Help Small Businesses.

How Cute! Softer Panda Update to Help Small Businesses.

Google’s head honcho of “search spam” Matt Cutts has announced that his search team are working on a new softer Panda update that is aimed at helping smaller businesses do better. A lot of search marketers will no doubt hold their head in their hands and say “here we go again”, but let’s hold tight here as this new update could be the softest yet and could...

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How To Write The Best Google Ads

How To Write The Best Google Ads

I love a challenge and writing a compelling ad using only 25 characters for the headline and just 70 for the content can sometimes stretch your patience. But it is a skill that can benefit your online advertising in more ways than one… Cost you less AND increase sales! With Google Adwords advertising there are two ways to ensure that you are paying the least amount of money on your...

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4 Reasons Why SEO Is Getting Harder

4 Reasons Why SEO Is Getting Harder

Wearing my rose tinted glasses I was thinking the other day how easy SEO used to be a couple of years ago (obviously you had to know what you were doing!). But as the amount of websites exploded search engines, and Google in particular, have responded by applying increasingly complex algorithms, such as Hummingbird, to improve search results, creating a “level playing” field,...

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How Does Hummingbird Affect SEO Strategy?

How Does Hummingbird Affect SEO Strategy?

So Google begrudgingly admit that they have changed something! Throughout September forum chatter was offering their explanations and reasons for  SERPS activity oddities, but no-one could have foretold what was really happening… A complete overhaul of their algorithm, the first since the 2001, take into account it was also their 15th birthday and you suddenly begin to understand its...

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Adwords Enhanced Campaigns Help

Adwords Enhanced Campaigns Help

It’s been a busy start to 2013, three new clients on board, so firstly I’d like to say welcome to Jackson & Co Photography, Custodian Data Centre and Compass Moving Services.  But, this has led to a woeful neglect of my blogging. So here we are, Sunday morning, coffee, iTunes and looking at a PPC account which I’ve decided to give some Adwords enhanced campaigns...

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How To Get A Google Page One Rank – Here’s The Proof!

How To Get A Google Page One Rank – Here’s The Proof!

It’s the big question – how to get a Google page one rank. If you read my blog often, you should know by now that I don’t often blow my own trumpet. But after realising that my last 5 blog posts are on page one of Google (I’m based in the UK so the results are from Google.co.uk) I thought what the hell! So I got the brasso out and gave the old trumpet a good polish and now...

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