Archive for March 2013

Is User-Generated Content THAT Great?

Regardless of what industry you are in, what type of goods you sell or what services you offer, there is one rule every business should follow: tell the customers that you care. Let them know that you value their opinion—that they are more than just another e-commerce transaction that will be stored in the depths [...]

Seven highlights for Twitter’s 7th birthday

Twitter was 7 years old yesterday. I’ve personally been on Twitter for almost all that time. As I write, I’ve been on there (as @maxormark) for 6 years, 3 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes, 22 seconds! I got on to it after another SEO colleague mentioned it, and thought it was going to be [...]

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Content

You’ve spent hours slaving away to create your content: redrafting paragraphs, rephrasing sentences and, if you’re anything like me, hesitating over the placement of a comma. So why is nobody reading your article? Or worse still, why is no-one commenting on it, Tweeting it or Facebook sharing it? Whether you’ve experience this dilemma first-hand or the mere [...]

The First Point of Conversion

Writing Meta tags and Titles is one job that normally gets given to the most junior member of an agency team. It’s a ball-ache and too menial to be carried out by someone senior, and besides, it’s good practice for SEO newbies to get to know all about keywords and how to pack them in [...]

Social Media: The Star of the Catwalk

As another fashion show season has sashayed along the catwalks it was impossible to miss. Regardless of whether you are a follower of fashion or not, there are key names that you will have come across New York, Paris, London, Milan, Vivienne, Tom, Victoria, Kate, Cara and Anna. It was impossible to escape from any [...]