Time was when WordPress was a four-letter word in business. No longer. Not only has the platform become scaled scaled so that it powers 22% of all websites, it also has a maturing ecosystem of developers and tools convenient to business. As with any technology you put to use in a business, even if it’s...Read More
“Oh, you run an SEO firm? So…what exactly do you do?†This is one of the most frequently asked questions I receive. I often give the simple and short answer “We help companies get business from search engines,†but this always leads to the follow up question “How do you do that?†I then explain...Read More
Photographs by Harald Franzen/ZUMA (Jobs); Pete Marovich/ZUMA (Schmidt)Behind this week’s cover Steve Jobs wouldn’t appear to have been an emoticon guy, but history will show that on at least one occasion, when words failed to convey his delight, he resorted to one. It was March 2007, and Jobs had received an e-mail from Eric Schmidt,...Read More
Congratulations! Your new WordPress site is live — but this is not the end, trust me when I say this is just the beginning. Now that your site is live you need to know where you go from here? What is left to do for your site? How do to track success? How can you...Read More
In September 2013, I wrote a post where I predicted the top 7 online marketing trends that would dominate 2014. Now that we’re reaching the midway point of 2014, I thought it would be helpful to take a look at where we’re at, particularly in terms of SEO. Google has been busy over the past...Read More
Google has fleet of Lexus SUVs retrofitted with lasers, radar and cameras The fleet has done 700,000 accident-free miles (1.1m km) on motorways Google has been focusing on improving city driving for the past year So far, tech giant has focused street driving in Mountain View, California It predicts that the public could get hold...Read More
This blog post is based on a presentation given at last week’s BrightonSEO entitled ‘Cool shit you can do with WordPress’ but to call it that I’ll have to check if we’re allowed to say it first. Depending on what the headline above says right now will let you know the outcome of that little...Read More
Have you ever overheard something at a conference, or read something on an industry blog and thought to yourself, that can’t possibly be true? Or do you keep hearing something inaccurate being repeated over and over even though you know it’s definitely not true? Well, Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts also keeps hearing some of...Read More
An overzealous lover? TED 2014/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The relationships human beings have with brands are little different from the relationships they have with lovers. Some are keepers. Some are one-night stands. Some grow on you. Some are merely friends with benefits. Some, though, just don’t take the hint. They bombard their lovers with...Read More
If you worked for an SEO agency and got leads on literally thousands of websites, spanning across hundreds of brands, markets, target audiences, and countries, you’d surely be very excited—and probably overwhelmed with the sheer size of the task that lay ahead of you. That’s exactly the daunting task my (in-house) Enterprise Capabilities and Services...Read More
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