How Titles and Pictures Can Make (or Break) Your Blog’s Success

You’re reading this sentence for one reason: because the headline caught your eye! That is the secret to copywriting for the Internet, after all: to attract attention first and to keep attention second. When you publish your own blog, there are a lot of ways of doing this. But perhaps […]

Clair Trebes Interview – Taking Your Local Business To The Next Level

Blogging is becoming much more important for both online and offline businesses.  Many local businesses are having to get online to find new business and raise their profile, particularly now that competition is so fierce on the high street.  I thought that it would be good to chat to someone […]

Choose Your Blog Niche Carefully – Don’t Make The Same Mistake I Did

Back in January, I started a new blog. Now, if someone was to ask me what exactly it was about, I wouldn’t know what to say. Neither would any of my friends or my actual blog visitors for that matter.  That may sound strange, but I think you will find […]

Mobile Marketing: Using Foursquare & Location Data

The results of a good social media marketing campaign can result in reaching millions of people online, resulting in increased referrals and brand recognition. One of the most frequently overlooked portions of a social media marketing campaign is mobile marketing and local search engine marketing. Potential customers are using their […]

4 Reasons Why Your eCommerce Store Shouldn’t Rely On Google

If you have a need to boost traffic and increase the number of people coming to visit your website, you may think that the only way to do this is to rank higher in the Google search results. Over time, this might become a large part of your marketing strategy. […]

How To Get Traffic Via Your RSS Feed

An RSS Feed does not really hold enough SEO (Search Engine Optimization) power to warrant you paying it any extra attention. However, the RSS Feed as a tool is a very powerful one if you have one set up for your site. It has the potential to drive repeat traffic […]

8 Top Tips To Help With eCommerce Website Design

Each and every one of us has, at one point or another, been on an eCommerce website.  We buy clothes, food, entertainment, furniture, holidays, etc. all via an online shopping portal as it is seen to be easy to do.  It is only easy due to the design of the […]

How To Plan Out and Write a Blog Post

Today, I thought I would share how “I” write a blog post for my site.  Now, there are many different types of posts (be it; tutorials, reviews, interviews, top lists, etc.) that you can write, but I find that I tend to plan out and write them all in a […]

Rome Wasn’t Build In A Day: 4 SEO Tips For Newbie Bloggers

Firstly, I’m not even going to suggest for a second that I’m an SEO expert and I won’t try to pretend… BUT, I have been in the game long enough to have made my fair share of mistakes and realise what works and what doesn’t (especially after the Panda and Penguin updates last year). I have […]

Local SEO: Going Beyond the Directories with Link Building

Ever since Google rolled out the local results in their search engine result pages (SERPs) everyone has been trying to find out ways to get their businesses site to show up in the local listings since it appears above the natural rankings. Most of this was done by focusing onsite […]