Avoiding common content mistakes made by small businesses

This is a guest post for our blog by Ruth Perrington about the content creation issues that small businesses or start-ups face when first building their online presence. As a small business or start-up, you likely already know the value of talking to your potential customers in the right way. And in this day and…

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Structuring blog posts for maximum impact

You need to think of the internet as a vast library or superstore. You don’t go to a store and find all the products jumbled up. They are neatly arranged by categories and by-product. The same is true of a library – when you arrive the shelves are not stacked in a random order. They’re…

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Write your meta description like it’s ad copy

Next on your list of things to check, whilst you’re carrying out your SEO Health Check, are your Meta tag descriptions. Just like your title tags they need to be unique for every page. There’s a trend going on here isn’t there? If you get the feeling that the search engines are very interested in…

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Optimal website structure

Following on from keyword research, you need to build your site architecture and navigation with your human visitors in mind. User experience and SEO have to go hand in hand; quite often, you will come across dilemmas where you need to make a compromise. The compromise should always be in favour of your customers; you’ll…

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The basics of search engine visibility

To have an effective online presence you need to satisfy a variety of audiences, the people who might decide to buy from you, the people that will help you to sell your service/product and the search engines. Today we’re going to look at your website from the perspective of the search engines.

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Search engine optimisation for the uninitiated

I‘m going to be hijacking the Idea Girl Media Facebook page today as part of the January Jig. A big thank you to Keri Jaehnig for hosting this event on her page and for bringing together such a wonderful group of people to share their expertise.

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