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17 ways to improve your site search results pages
As site search users can be have a greater intent to purchase than the average, it pays to provide the best possible experience for these…
How to optimize your Google My Business listing: expert tips
A Google My Business profile is an essential for local SEO. It’s free and will enable you to appear in local search results for…
12 valuable marketing lessons from Snapchat’s success
Snapchat is turning into a very appealing platform for brands, while the engagement of its users keep increasing. How did it become the new…
Seth Godin: Nobody makes a purple cow by sticking with what’s safe
Yesterday’s over. Being different is what’s going to help you win tomorrow – not simply repeating your previous success. A century ago, Henry Ford…
The key ingredients of mobile design and UX methodology
Mobile projects can live or die on design. This column looks at the importance of design methodology, with a blow-by-blow account of the digital…
Is Google testing out green labels for PPC ads?
Google looks to be testing out a new colour of ‘ad’ label for its PPC ads in Europe today. I noticed this tweet in…
The top 100 most expensive keywords in the UK: new research
Back in the day, around 2003, somebody asked me a question regarding paid search: “Do you know what the most expensive keyword is on Google Adwords,…
How will online advertisers and retailers benefit from Google AdWords redesign?
In this mobile-first world, Google is continuously monitoring the growth of usage on mobile devices and looking for ways to improve advertiser’s ability to…
Mobile marketers are missing out on hyperlocal: report
Despite the opportunity to target customers based on their locations, just 22% of marketers agree that they are exploiting hyperlocal advertising to its full potential. It…
30 quick and easy SEO tips for small businesses
For the uninitiated, SEO can seem to be a complex and foreign landscape, but it doesn’t have to be too complicated. Indeed, there’s a…
Everything you need to know about natural language search
Search engines like Google, Bing and others are making efforts to bring searching for information in line with everyday conversation with a type of search…
Google manual action penalties were due to links for freebies
A month ago, we reported that Google had issued warnings to bloggers over providing links in return for free products to review. Now it…
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages and content: the need for speed
When Google launched the mobile update in April 2015, it was intended to reward brands with mobile-friendly websites. Even without the update, however, marketers…
Does the web really need any more content recommendations?
It has now become almost impossible to read news online without encountering recommendations for related content. In the main, it’s garbage. Consisting of clickbait…
Google Analytics: a guide to confusing terms
Google Analytics is a hugely useful and in-depth tool for measuring and monitoring your website’s performance, as long as you can learn its language.…
11 tips on how to optimise Pinterest pins for SEO
Pinterest has evolved during the past few years from a trending social network to a powerful visual search engine, and as with any other…
Why user testing is the most important part of mobile development
The sooner you find out your what is wrong with your *brilliant* concept, the easier, quicker, cheaper (and less embarrassing) it is to put…
Five tips for low-risk Google Display Network testing
So you’re a small or medium-sized business (SMB) and you’ve already hit a cap on how far you can go with search engine marketing…
The Joy of Micro UX: 18 delightful examples
What is micro-UX? Micro-UX refers to the tiny interactions with a website or app that are designed to delight the user, by making their…
WebPromo’s Q&A with Google’s Andrey Lipattsev [transcript]
We've partnered with WebPromo to bring you a transcript of their entire one-hour long Google Q&A, where its top three ranking signals were revealed.