SEO Manchester

Over the past month some of our SEO guys have been involved in setting up an SEO book club. We wanted to read more and, in turn, improve our copywriting skills. Last night we got together at Font Bar before the Manchester SEO meet, sat down with some drinks and discussed 'Into the Wild' by Jon... read more

Congratulations to Crain's, which yesterday put on a fantastic event at the Ramada Hotel Piccadilly. It was really well organised, and everyone from the I-COM team had a great time. Unfortunately I-COM, nominated in the 'Big' category, didn't win, but the fact that we reached the final is a... read more

Yesterday was the first (annual) SASCon (that's #sascon if you want to see what people were saying on Twitter about it) SEO Conference, held at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and the first major SEO event in Manchester. For an inagural event I must say I was impressed with the quality of the... read more

Following the startling news that Apple's iPhones and iPads actually make you more attractive to women, the SEO team at I-COM decided to conduct their own research into the unsupported but long held theory that a well SEO'd site actually makes male business owners more attractive to women.... read more

Here at I-COM we’re never happier than when clients are happy with the level of success they are receiving from our online marketing and SEO services. So we were really excited when we received this fantastic testimonial from the MD of one of our long standing clients: "I can honestly say... read more

An SEO copywriter writes all the textual content for a digital marketing agency. This can mean anything from website content to blog posts, press releases to articles on a given subject specific to a client's business. It’s a creative position within one of the UK's few boom industries, and is... read more

In my first post on link building I mentioned in some detail how you can find your online competitor's back-links using a free, simple tool from Yahoo! Now it's all well and good having a list of competitor back-links, but how do you know which ones are good quality back links and have been given... read more

I've been looking at the Twitter feed of a fairly comprehensive list of UK SEOs this morning and I noticed something. Of the most recent 140 tweets in the feed at the time I was looking (about 11:45am): 13 people plugged their own content 27 people plugged random sites such as... read more

There are many changes afoot in 2010 at Google. Citations are becoming a major force, real-time search is available, personalisation is up and running. However, even as Google strives to be as local, inclusive and relevant it still likes adding exceptions. Following the furore after... read more

Those of us in the online marketing industry, in fact in any industry which relies heavily on the internet to generate revenue, are waiting with baited breath for the introduction of Google Caffeine. In fact, we’ve already blogged about it here. If you’re a client of I-COM, I had some... read more