Author Archive for Clive
News From The Front Line
Basic SEO and SEM versus Social Media? It’s not one or the other it’s a combination of the two. Heather Dougherty of HitWise adds her 2 cents re this tricky area
Twitter For Business Marketing
Most people either get Twitter or they don’t – Janet Street-Porter recently called Twitterers “Twats”! – so how might it possibly used in marketing your business?
Back up Wordpress Blog – Good Housekeeping
Want to know how to back up your Wordpress blog every which way? Here are my suggestions for daily. weekly and monthly back up tasks to make sure that if Your Wordpress blog is ever compromised you have everything you need to get it back up online fast.
Poor Advice Can Get You In A Bad Place
There are times when, in hindsight, you might wish you’d done things differently, gotten a second opinion! Maybe those ‘black hat’ techniques weren’t such a great idea when I think back.
Ever feel like people just don’t want you around?
Maybe it’s the fact that your site only gets 20 visitors a day ( and the suspicion that half of them are search engine bots and not real people) is the reason you think that this web ‘lark‘ isn’t all it’s cracked up to be…
So Do You Feel Lucky Punk? Do Ya?
It used to be that, if you were lucky, you could throw up a web site, optimize it with some basic coding and BOOM! your site could rank for your chosen keyword or phrase. There’s no such thing as luck in SEO today!
One Hit Wonder Or Perennial Favorite?
The world is fickle, we can’t even remember our favorite ‘one hit wonder’ can we? But we have no problem reciting lyrics from our favorite Beatles tracks. Another bad analogy from SEOptimum!
Ever Feel A Little ‘Lost’ (does Google know you exist?)
You don’t know where you are in Google or even if Google knows your site exists! So how can you tell? What are the basics of getting your site indexed by Google and, stage #2, ranked well? Hmmm, let’s address that…
There’s Gold In Them Thar’ Hills
Is the web a new Klondike Gold Rush, everyone sees it as the new source to exploit. Are you going to try and grab your stake? But what if you’ve found where the gold is, how will you mine it? By hand or with a shovel?
How To Dominate Your Market
Understand your customers’ searching behavior. Walk in their shoes, and understand the dialogue the searcher is having with the web. Most customers are researching or looking for a problem to solve.
