Digital Marketing Blog

What’s happening in the world of digital marketing?

The latest news from the world of digital, along with insights, opinions and practical tips.

  • Yahoo! and bing are now officially bed partners in the US

    Yahoo! to be powered by Microsoft by September 2010? But will the new partnership be a match for Google? Read on to see what we think.

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  • The ‘slightly broad’ concept rolls out across the globe

    It wasn’t very long ago at all that we were talking about the ‘slightly broad match’ concept, but it appears to have been a winner and Google has just announced that it is rolling out the feature acoss most languages globally. As a general rule, we stay clear of broad match in our PPC campaigns, […]

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  • Does white hat SEO work for competitive industries?

    White Hat SEO and competing with the big boys – is it possible without black hat arts? Matt Cutts asks if your tactics stand the test of time

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  • Google introduces the ‘slightly’ broad concept

    Some promising looking news over at the Adwords Blog today… If you have managed PPC campaigns on Google’s adwords platform before, you should be familiar with the concept of exact, phrase and broad match. As a general priniciple, we tend to avoid using broad match as it can lead to some VERY broad ‘matches’ and […]

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  • Want a career in search engine marketing?

    If you are looking for a career in SEO, then we want to talk to you! 2010 has been very busy and we are now looking for more members of our growing team. We believe that we are small but perfectly formed – this is your chance to join a growing business and work on […]

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  • Google’s contribution to the UK election

    2010: The Internet Election. Conservatives dominate YouTube & Lib Dems fail during old school TV debates. Is this the future of UK Elections?

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  • Express Group caught with their trousers down

    Buying links for SEO. Express Group were found to be selling links at £1,000 a pop – we look at the impact this will have on their sites.

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  • Get up to speed with Google

    Google factors in page load speed when determining organic rankings. Page load speed is now officially important for your search engine rankings.

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  • The secret to reducing AdWords costs

    The official Google Adwords blog is always a useful resource for keeping up to date with new innovations and general tips and tricks for the platform. A new post entitled “Three ways to control your AdWords costs” caught our interest and offers the following video explaining how to ‘control’ your advertising costs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIihfzBiyrA   Whilst […]

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  • Yahoo! is the latest to integrate with Twitter

    Earlier this week Yahoo! revealed its latest move in the ‘social game’ and announced that just like Google and Bing, it has also struck a deal with Twitter to integrate real-time tweets with its search engine results, something that Google has been doing since the end of 2009. However, unlike Google and Bing, Yahoo! will […]

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  • Who would want to work in online marketing?

    We all should! Online marketing, although competitive, provides a great networking platform and really, we’re all in it for the greater good

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  • How should businesses use social media?

    Perhaps one of the questions that we hear most these days is how businesses should embrace social media. We have migrated from “We need a website” to “We need to get more people to our website” and are now firmly into “crikey – can you help me make sense of all this social media stuff […]

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