SEO... What's that got to do with the price of fish?
Money, that’s what. Like so many other resources where rapidly surging demand has meant that supplies are dwindling, you may have noticed that the cash we’re being asked to pay for our favourite form of waterborne protein is doing the exact opposite to sinking out there in the shops these days. And precisely the same principle applies to those deliciously appetising, but oh-so-overfished, big keywords – we’ve regularly seen up to £40 a click and often considerably in excess of this.

Martin Miller, Websmart Design

Help your user to love your website.
It's not easy getting that page rank you've always dreamed of, but by adding helpful information for your user can help you get there.

Stephen Stanbury, Perfect Pixal

End of week 1 in 2013
Survived the end of the first full week back at the office after the holiday season and what a busy week it has been.

Lisa Spann, ISSL Website Designers

To SEO or NOT to SEO that is the question
SEO or Search Engine Optimisation and Website marketing are two different elements that co-exist together in a symbiotic relationship. Or something like that.

Geosync, Geosync

10 Top Tips for Website Readability
In this article we provide ten useful tips for website content and how to make it effective and engaging for your online readers.

Netbiz Group , Netbiz Group

What are Facebook Ads?
Facebook ads are useful as Facebook stores all personal data and with the right knowledge each ad can target a specific audience depending on location, age or even profession.

Netbiz Group, Netbiz Group

Always read the small print.
Just three months after its acquisition by Facebook, Instagram released a new intellectual property policy an 18 December 2012 that allows the company to sell users' photographs without paying or notifying them.

Jon Hurley, Switch

Are you packed?
Why do so many businesses go with a packaged website company, only to find the "professional website in minutes" doesn't materialise?

Andy McGregor, McGregor Media Web Design

Copywriting Tips
How many times do you see “Welcome to our Website” as the main heading – what a waste! How many times do you discover inward facing text when you start reading? “Welcome to our website” is not only an SEO sin, but also an insult to your reader too. You would never see a magazine article with a heading that said “welcome to our article”, so why is it OK to put it on your website?

Peter Efford, Mushroom Internet Ltd

Advertising Standards Authority - ASA and your website
The Advertising Standards Authority govern what you can say on your website, Facebook and Twitter pages and of course E marketing shots. I thought I would write a short article about this to help more people become aware of the ASA and link to a couple of examples.

Lisa Spann, ISSL Website Designers

Top 5 Tips For Surviving 'Empty13'
It's here: 2013 is upon us. In the marketing industry we're calling it ‘Empty13’. Here's why, what you can expect and how to navigate through an unfamiliar void in the shared agenda this year.

Paul Beard, Attain Design

Get Google Bots to Crawl Your Website Frequently
Not many website clients appreciate the need to enhance crawl frequency. Most SEO managers who redesign or re-launch websites usually monitor page crawl rates after the site’s release, yet their clients are left lost as to why this is important for optimisation.

Alex Faiers, Addictivity

Make Your Website an Experience to Remember and Share
People remember experiences, no matter how big or small. Remember that one bad cup of coffee you got from that one place? Of course you do. And because you remember it, you haven’t gone back for more. Websites are no different. With more and more people piling onto the web, more and more experiences are being had and shared. Is your website one of them? Let’s look at some common experiential aspects of a good website and plan yours accordingly.

Alex Faiers, Addictivity

Shopping Online & It's Future
If you are a retailer and you’re not selling your products online you are missing a trick.

Amy Smart, Alpha Design & Marketing

Small Businesses: Are you making the most of social media?
Social media is an effective marketing tool and a lot of the time it is a tool that can be used for free. Some businesses utilise social media effectively and see positive results from it, with hundred sometimes thousands of followers or likes, making more people aware of their brand.

Netbiz Web, Netbiz Group

Maximising your website with great content
Ensure you have great content which will ultimately drive sales and enquiry conversions.

Gareth Handa, Advanced Web Designs Ltd

Is Pinterest a useful marketing tool?
Pinterest could be useful as a marketing tool as you can ‘pin’ certain pictures to your board. You can have numerous boards and so cover a range of different topics. You follow different boards or users and they can follow you back and similar to twitter, you can “repin” a post or leave a comment.

Netbiz Web, Netbiz Group

Search Engine Marketing - there's no such thing as 'free'
A look at different types of search engine marketing

Matt Riley, WebCreationUK

Wombat Expands
Things have been getting rather busy at Wombat over the past few months so we thought it was time to take a natural step and find a new member of the team! After exploring serveral options we eventually found what we were looking for in the form of Nadene - our new apprentice:

Jason Savage, Wombat Creative

Beginners Guide to SEO (Part 2 - Keywords)
What are keywords? Keywords are the search terms that you type into a search engine whenever you want to do a search. They can be a single word or a number of words, depending on what you are looking for.

Fraser Hannah, Wombat Creative