Article archive of posts tagged “Small Business”

So I was doing a bit of research this morning in Google under the query "affordable health insurance." I got the following result: Enlarge image in a new window Now, bearing in mind that I'm searching on google.co.uk, I've been given 3 American sites in the top 5 - although on the whole... read more

Well before the current credit crunch, 36% of managing partners responding to a CLT survey said that Marketing and Practice Development was the number one priority - ahead of financial management, technology developments, HR activity and general management. Even in the current downturn, a... read more

I've just read with amazement an article in today's Crains about a Liverpool search firm CL5 that has been awarded a grant by North West Vision and Media to set up an office in Manchester. To be quite frank I can't believe it - search is one of the few parts of the market that are really... read more

Small businesses looking for their first professionally designed and developed website do not usually have a internet marketing expert on staff - or a web developer - and very often don't really know what things should cost. They may have a rough idea based on what friends or business... read more

I feel slightly better for having had my rant on so called search engine optimising companies sending out spurious crap by email. The real cause of the rant was not the email - that was merely the final straw that put me over the edge! I had a meeting with an excellent company... read more

I was reading an article in Crains this week about how the number of business start-ups in Manchester increased by 10% in 2008. It seems that despite the economic doom and gloom, and perhaps because of the challenges that the recession presents such as the growing level of redundancies,... read more

Yesterday I taught a training course for a new client about basic SEO. During the course, the company's web developer wondered if I found it frustrating having to spend 3-4 hours answering very basic questions about SEO so another business could decide what aspects of its optimisation to... read more

Matt Cutts, Google's spam cop and chief PR blogger posted a response yesterday to an article about "sponsored" blog posts. According to Cutts, paid blog posts are fine - as long as they don't pass page rank. Simply put - if someone pays you to review their site/product/service you have to add a... read more

I was interested to read today that William Hill was having problems because of the recession. I was very surprised to see that this wasn't the type of trouble you might expect in such uncertain times, their business is still growing and profitable. The issue it seems comes down to the... read more

When searching for "mattresses" on Google, I noticed this for the first time ever this morning: Enlarge image in a new window For this particular term, both when logged into a Google Account and when searching while logged out, Google is asking me if I want to refine my search further by... read more