Category: Advice

  • Has Your Business Missed Out This Christmas?

    The UK is the world leader in e-commerce, the internet economy is expanding at a healthy rate despite the economic downturns of the last few years, and more and more people are turning to the internet for shopping, yet STILL some businesses continue to scrape by ‘offline’ when they could…

  • Yahoo Clues, The Newest SEO Tool?

    Yahoo! are currently in the process of testing out a new service to once again try and take on the might of Google. Currently in its Beta stage, Yahoo! Clues is Yahoo’s attempt at providing a useful SEO tool. Although it is currently only using US data for its results,…

  • Web Accessibility For The Disabled

    The Internet is now such a huge part of life that it is widely thought of as something everyone should be able to use, regardless of age, sex or race, and whilst it may initially seem overwhelming to a person using the web for the first time, a majority will…

  • Is Your Website Smartphone Friendly?

    With the rate at which modern technology is developing and advancing, it can be easy to take your eye off the ball for a few minutes and then find yourself with out dated versions of pretty much everything you own! Smartphones are at the forefront of these technological enhancements with…

  • Getting Links From Your Users

    Link building can be one of the most tedious and time consuming parts of SEO, finding relevant, credible places to post your link to, then waiting for a response, can take more time that it is seemingly worth. However, there are more interesting ways in which you can get your…

  • Blekko – Looking To Defeat “SEO Spam”

    Earlier this week, a new search engine under the title of ‘Bleeko’ was launched to the online public. CEO and Co-Founder Rich Skrenta claims that Blekko offers a real alternative to the search engine giants, as it uses a unique blend of Twitter and Wikipedia style result delivery. The main…

  • Google Places, Will it affect you?

    Search engine giant Google is currently in the process of rolling out their newest feature ‘Google Places’. This follows the unveiling of Google instant, however whilst Google Instant is simply a cosmetic change which see’s results displayed as you type, Google Places could have a real impact on search results…

  • The Demise Of Business Link & The Rise Of LEP’s

    As previously revealed in June, Business Link is on its way out, it is being scrapped and it was today confirmed it will be gone ‘by the end of 2012’. The £154m a year service which was lauded by some and loathed by others has been deemed ‘unfit for purpose’…

  • UK Internet Economy On The Up!

    Figures recently released by Google have shown that the UK’s internet economy is in excellent shape, reportedly worth £100 billion per year, and making up 7.2% of the UK’s gross domestic product (GDP). Despite all the doom and gloom of budget cuts and very limited economic growth throughout the country,…

  • Google’s Caffeine update is LIVE

    Caffeine? Ain’t that the stuff in my coffee? – Yes it is, but its also the nickname given to Google’s updated indexing algorithm. It was first rumoured back in august of 2009 that Google would be making some fairly heavy changes to its indexing algorithm, and with the changes bought fresh hope…