The Missing Link Link building has long been a contentious aspect of SEO. Black hat, white hat and grey hat SEO practitioners all have their own ways of cultivating links for their websites, and, because of this Google have always been cautious when discussing links and their importance in ranking a website. So, when John …
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Battling Instagram Bots
You’ve Got New Followers! If you’ve used Instagram for a serious length of time you will have seen bots making comments or following your account. For a casual user, this is nothing more than an annoyance, or quirk, of the social media platform. But if you’re using Instagram to promote your business, or sell your …
Explicit or Implicit Keywords
A Needle in a Haystack Picking the right keywords is always complicated. You might have an idea of what keywords work well for your business, but that doesn’t mean it’s right. So you have to find a way to test which keywords are used by your customers. But when you complicate things even more by …
Google’s 5 Pillars of Success
The Fifth Column Building consistent content is tough. Sometimes it’s good to get a refresher on what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, so when we saw that Google has outlined the 5 pillars of success needed to make a good app we were interested. But how can these pillars be applied to making …
Click to Message from Google Ads
Can You Text Me? If you’ve spent any time using Google Ads you should be familiar with Callouts. Callouts are extra bits of information that will be displayed when your ad is shown on a mobile, or desktop, device. A callout could be as simple as an overview of your products, or a clickable phone …
How to Caption a Post on Instagram
No Filter Instagram is all about the photos right? Well, yes, it is. But there is space for a caption below your photo. And the text in your bio. And hashtags… so maybe it isn’t all about the photos… Let’s take a look at how to optimize your Instagram posts AFTER you’ve spent 30 minutes …
Image Optimization – Get the Most From Your Pictures
More than Words Content optimization is something that we talk about a lot. How many keywords to use, what to put in the meta description blah blah. But what we don’t often mention is the other things you have on your website next to the text. Images. Image optimization is almost as important as text …
Is America Tired of Social Media?
Stunted Growth Social media has been something of an obsession since the days of MySpace but is America falling out of love with it? If the latest study from the Pew Research Center is right, then maybe so. Social media usage has been increasing year on year for longer than a decade, but have we …
Is Hyper-Personalization Possible for a Small Business
Small Talk Personalization has become more important as the world has become more homogenized. With every mall filled with the same chain stores, and every main street with a Starbucks the personal touch is becoming more and more valuable. So can small businesses use technology to enable them to speak to every customer like they’re …
Amazon Advertising Chasing Down Google Ads
Pay Per Click Online Pay Per Click advertising is big business. Three years ago the combined ad spend on Google AdWords was $72billion dollars. In the last year, Google has invested a lot of time upgrading their advertising platform (now known as Google Ads). Their platform had been in need of a refresh, so it …