This video is genius and you should watch it all because it backs up stuff I’ve been saying about business coaches, following innovators and trying to beat the odds by seeing how others do it.

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As the election race heats up, we can begin to see how the party leaders are using social media or being used by it like never before. This must be the most analysed election in history due to the sheer number of people monitoring every breath of all involved.

But does this help us decide on a winner?

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Want to get your site indexed in super-quick time? Yeah? Think submitting to Google is the way ahead? Nahhh, here’s what you need to do…

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There was a time not long ago when we were telling companies that they needed Facebook fanpages. They told us they were not going to go on facebook because it’s for kids!

Slowly but surely, more and more people have started to understand how Facebook can be an integral part of your marketing. The question we hear now is ‘how do I get more fans onto my fanpage’. Read the rest of this entry »

I hate bad news. But I have some for you anyway.

It is becoming increasingly harder to get ranked high in Google these days.

Google has become the ever changing beast. Just when you think you know the best way to get your site to number 1, they tweak or change the goalposts and the algorithms. Also, the truth is that no-one really know 100% how Google works. If they tell you they do, walk away quickly. Read the rest of this entry »

When you first decide to do a bit of ‘SEO’ on your website, the initial thoughts of “oo, this is a bit easy” when you’re adding a bit of text here and updating the odd meta-tag there soon gives way to fear and loathing when you discover that there’s a lot more to it than that.

SEO is an on-going task and there’s so much to it that many people get hung up on the preparation without actually doing anything towards the promotion of their site. I’ve always believed that doing something is way more beneficial that doing nothing but it can still be difficult to work out what to do first, so here are some ideas.

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Doesn’t it amaze you what people call things these days? You can moan all you like about parents naming their children after a particularly nice bottle of red, but that’s surely trumped by Microsoft’s naming policies.

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In the first of our question/answer series, Paul Lacy asks about links to your website and is it all about quantity? Surely quality and relevancy matter too? Well, here is a detailed answer to probably one of the most difficult questions about SEO and link building, hopefully it will help others who have been bogged down by this very question.

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Groughghghgh. It happens every few months and the same questions keep popping up, usually “Yay! My Page Rank has gone up!!” or “Booooo, my Page Rank has dropped…” I have only one answer and I’d like you to tattoo it on your retinas:

It doesn’t matter.

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