By Chris Soames 27 Jan 2011 Link Building Techniques : Competitor Link Analysis As part of my series of blog posts on link building techniques I have decided to look at how we can use tools and build a process to analyse a competitors backlink profile to help create a list of target sites for you …..
By 27 Jan 2011 User Testing 101 – Should we go guerilla? From lead generation and e-commerce websites to web applications and intranets, user testing is one of the most powerful, insightful and actionable techniques you can use. You move beyond thinking of your website/app/intranet from your own perspective to seeing how people who aren’t involved in your business browse, experience and interact with it…
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By Dave Chaffey 24 Jan 2011 Qwiki – a new visual search and learning engine Importance: [rating=5] Our commentary: Here we’re alerting you to an exciting new information-sharing and learning technology. It’s very early days for the service – it’s in a closed alpha and launched around November 2010. But it’s already getting rave reviews …..
By Dave Chaffey 21 Jan 2011 Are you asking your customers this question enough? The question in question is “Tell us what you think!”. Surveying customers has always been popular, but the new opportunities for gaining feedback from customers is one of the most exciting aspects of engaging customers through digital channels for me. …..
By Dave Chaffey 21 Jan 2011 2011 Customer Engagement report summary This report contains useful perspectives from a range of engagement specialists which are useful to review. There are also statistics from over 1,000 client and agency side respondents. Here are the main results from the research: Email newsletters (72%), presence …..
By Danyl Bosomworth 20 Jan 2011 5 Lessons For Email and Social Integration We know that email subscribers, and now social media followers, are so valuable since they’ve given permission to receive communications. The problem is that vanilla flavoured, promotional messaging en masse will fail – the different audiences in those channels most …..
By Mark Brownlow 20 Jan 2011 Are your marketing emails truly valuable? Approachs to increase the value of your email messages Part 1 Emotional value Subscribers give you an address, attention and access to the inner sanctum that is their inbox. And they expect something in return. Some kind of value from …..
By Chris Soames 20 Jan 2011 SEO for markets with low search volume No keyword searches to build a strategy off? No problem! Or an opportunity at least Value: [rating=5] Our commentary: A recent blog post from Rand @ SEOMOZ really caught my attention this week. In many markets for natural search there …..
By Annmarie Hanlon 19 Jan 2011 Online press release websites for e-PR A list of services to use for DIY press-release submission for small businesses While many large companies use a PR agency to manage their press-releases, it’s now easy to do-it-yourself and go direct to an online service for distribution. There …..