Book Review: Inbound Marketing Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs

I decided I should start reading some of the books that have been recently published to see what advice is being given about social media.

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Thoughts on: Survive and Thrive – How to manage your business in tough times

Today I attend an inspiring event hosted by IoD YDF & Business Link Yorkshire at Gandhi Hall, Leeds Met Uni.

Andy Chapman, IoD YDF Committee collaborated with the team at Business Link to put on an informative event. Which aim was to give practical tips for business owners in Leeds about how they can manage their businesses in tough times. (more…)

Google Merchant – are you making the most this growing channel?

Back at the end of September Google announced the split of Google Base. Google Merchant is an account where you can submit your product based feed. This information drives the data in Google Shopping. Google Base remains in place but for non product information such as houses or cars. (more…)

Noded Working – a change for the way agencies work

Gone are the days of the traditional web or creative agency
With the changes in the economy over the past 2 years and the accelerated changes in technology and internet it’s time for change. Traditional creative, development and web agencies face a change in the market. With people being made redundant and others growing increasing disillusioned with their current employers there is a seas of change. In my experience (from my own network of contacts) more people have gone freelance if they have left or been made redundant. (more…)

Noded Working – collaborative working

Last week I was on holiday in Scotland and on a rainy Thursday I decided to spend the morning on the WIFI catching up emails, blogs and twitter. It was Hull Digital week last week. There was an event on the Thursday 15th October that a lot of people I follow were tweeting about. So I happily kept reading the tweets whilst I slurped my coffee and visited the links that were being sent. (more…)

Where have all the Black Hat SEO Guys gone?

I was reviewing inbound links on a website as the webmaster had paid for some inbound links to be generated (alarm bells should have been ringing already). So I look at some of the links and found the next generation of inbound link spam. So after a rant, I then started looking for other next generation spam techniques the wondrous black hat people have come up with…..and what a can of worms that was. (more…)