How many pages should your website have?

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When we help clients to set up their websites we are often asked how many pages it’s best to have, whether they should keep things minimal with a handful of pages, or add lots more information with ten or more! There’s really no sure-fire answer to how many pages your website will need, but there…

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Social Media activity boosts search rankings

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There’s been a great deal of debate among SEO professionals over the past few months about just how much search engines pick up on “social signals” when determining the authority, relevance and most importantly overall rankings of websites.

Maximising your SEO for Mobile Search

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In the space of just three years, mobile’s proportion of web traffic has grown by more than 1,200%. If you take into consideration that this figure doesn’t include the use of tablets (therefore it realistically being significantly higher and on the rise month on month) the importance of these figures speak for themselves. If you…

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Tag Clouds: All you Need to Know

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When you visit a website, do you see a list of seemingly random keywords and phrases in different fonts and colours?  That is what is known as a ‘Tag Cloud’. A Tag (according to Wikipedia) is“a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (e.g. a picture, article, or video…

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How to Get the Most from your Landing Page

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Its a tough time out there, financially speaking. Campaigns are cut, budgets belted, and “money management” seems to be on the tips of everyone’s tongues at the monthly meetings. In the past, websites were built, and clicks were sent directly to the homepage of said site. Nowadays, companies invest thousands of revenue into tailored and…

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How To Set Up a (Successful) Company Blog:

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Everyone you know probably has one, and everyone you know is probably talking about one in particular. Even you will have one you like to peruse from day to day. But what  makes a successful Blog? And how do you apply this success to your company’s online presence? There are many do’s and don’ts on…

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The Impact of Voice Search on Your SEO

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With over 4million iPhone 4s’s sold in the first 3 days of release (and iPhone 5 just around the corner) Siri and Voice search is now in the hands of a huge base of your clientele. Siri and similar are expanding onto other platforms and devices at an alarming rate, so with Voice Search being…

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The Art of Successful Link Building:

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When talking with Online Marketing Agencies, two words continually crop up amidst the jargon and tech talk, two which are seemingly otherwise overlooked and undervalued when preparing an ongoing strategy: “Link Building”. But what does this elusive term really mean?