New Twitter Highlighting
+Twitter have added in new blue highlighting for hashtags – check it out, super helpful: New hashtag highlighting on Twitter URLs: URLs also highlighted in blue and Twitter handles: Blue highlighting for Twitter Handles Post By +duncan colman
Ecommerce thank you page ideas
Nice purchase confirmation page @odeoncinemas #ecommerce twitter.com/Spike_Digital/… — Duncan Colman (@Spike_Digital) December 18, 2012
Mitt Romney SEO
Mitt Romney SEO
Using the Amit Singhal 23 point checklist
Firstly, do have a read Amit Singhal’s ‘More guidance on high quality sites’ [cite: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html] Google SEO advice sometimes is like ‘how do I become a millionaire’ advice. Be great and you’ll be right. However, I like this list from Amit Singhal because it attempts to pull you out of the old 2 dimensional world […]
Search Engine Optimisation in 2012
A top line diagram of my perception of progressive, brand led,content led search engine optimisation in 2012Infographic by Duncan Colman
LinkedIn PPC advertising basics
Big Cheese PPC For companies working in B2B sectors that are heavily influenced by personal recommendation, a narrow digital marketing mix that focuses on search marketing alone has limited scope for success. Display / social media advertising has its place but is wasteful if you are judging any said traffic source purely on ROI. LinkedIn […]
Why Internet addiction will only go one way
We are past web 2.0. Post PC world is where we are at, which is in the process of completely transforming TV, video, data storage/sharing, telecommunications and even currency in the longer term. As multi device use is now mainstream there are more Internet worlds out there than ever before. Having recently gone on holiday, […]
Google updates – Local gets a push
Further to the growing awareness in SEO circles that Google have boosted the number of page 1 results with 7 listings (see this article from Danny Sullivan) I have seen in searches related to local retailers / businesses a growth in 3 listings on page one with a ‘big foot’ type result for Google Local […]
In-page Analytics guide
Basic usability analysis with Google Analytics Following on from my last ‘It started with a click’ post on page loading speed, this post is about your website’s usability and what practical steps you can take to address any glaring issues from how people are navigating around your website. Applications like Crazy Egg have helped give […]
Privacy Lost: 13 Million Facebook Users Not Using Privacy Controls
13 Million Facebook Users Disregard Privacy Controls Consumer Reports recently stated that 13 million Facebook users do not utilize the site’s privacy controls or are not aware of their presence. Knowing and unknowing victims Facebook is attracting more and more users each day. Sadly, while the company continues to develop sophisticated privacy controls to ensure […]
Google I/O (Android) 10th May Google tear up the mobile phone market
Having watched some of the Google IO (streamed live via Youtube today) I was overawed by their progress. Google.com have today announced that they have had 100 million android activations, supported by an astounding 450,000 developers! 200,000 android apps – with an emphasis on quality, 4.5 billion application installs which is partly such a high […]
Facebook marketing tips
Increasingly social media and SEO are being pulled together as online marketing disciplines. AS documented on earlier posts, location based marketing the two long term could well merge into one overall best practice methodology. In chronological order, here are my 6 favourite facebook marketing business page tips: 1) Before you go ‘public’ (tip: you can […]