By Dave Chaffey 20 Jan 2012 Google’s new anti-ad algorithm update Page Layout Algorithm update to affect a small proportion of sites Value/Importance: [rating=2] Recommended link: Google : Page Layout Algorithm improvement Our commentary on the Page Layout Update A minor update compared to the major announcement last week of Google …..
By Expert commentator 19 Jan 2012 Briefing a new marketing agency Life’s A Pitch (Part 2 of 3): Writing a decent creative brief Most people find writing a creative immensely difficult and more often than not, people make a bad job of it. This is designed to be helpful advice for all, …..
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By Rene Power 19 Jan 2012 Eight ways to seed your business blog posts and stimulate inbound traffic How to promote your company blog to reach a larger audience Writing a blog doesn’t end when you hit the publish button. Far from it. In this third part of our series on business blogging, René Power reviews the best …..
By Danyl Bosomworth 18 Jan 2012 Ask better questions of your marketing Our framework for owning marketing success Thanks for your comments and shares for our new Marketing Growth Wheel, it was good to see that many found this useful. We’ll be going into more depth on how to apply this in …..
By Mark Brownlow 18 Jan 2012 5 ways to improve your email marketing in 2012 My ideas on how to deal with unpredictability in email marketing in the year ahead As your local Greek philosopher never tires of telling you, the only constant is change. Many industry experts devote the occasional post or two in …..
By Dave Chaffey 18 Jan 2012 How long does a Facebook Post Live? What are the implications for posting updates to brand Facebook pages? Value/Importance: [rating=3] Recommended link: Edge Rank Checker And the answer is… “The average Post Lifetime for a Facebook Brand Page Update is 3 hours and 7 minutes” This nugget …..
By Dave Chaffey 18 Jan 2012 How can small businesses can sell more on Amazon and eBay? Tips on Marketplace Conversion Rate Optimisation from Matt Ogborne We all know that Amazon and eBay are the powerhouses where almost everyone now shops at some point or other. I’ve no data to support that, but I imagine, every web …..
By James Gurd 17 Jan 2012 Testing page titles and meta descriptions to boost SEO Part 5 in James Gurd’s website optimisation series In Part Five of this SEO series, I’ll show how to improve page titles and meta descriptions to increase traffic from natural search. This type of testing should be an integral part …..
By Danyl Bosomworth 17 Jan 2012 The Marketing Growth Wheel Infographic Our framework for marketing success You may remember our strategic RACE framework which we created to provide a means to contextualise digital marketing tactics. We’ve developed this with a new visual to show a planning and management process to use …..