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LinkedIn: Social Media for Business

LinkedIn is a social networking platform for businesses. Today’s most popular professional social networking site has over 135 million members and, unlike Facebook, caters to corporate executives. If you run a business, it’s critical that you have a strong presence on LinkedIn. You’re losing out on important connections and growth if you don’t. The most […]

The Importance of Quality Content Creation

The manner in which businesses attract consumers has evolved dramatically. It is no longer enough to offer a high-quality product/service and advertise on television, radio, and in print. People have gotten adept at tuning out intrusive advertising. Consumers are increasingly turning to the internet to discover product and service providers, paying careful attention to the […]

How to Remove Unwanted & Misleading Links from Your Website and Add Positive Ones

When it comes to creating, renovating, or adding content to your website, you need to understand some basic search engine optimisation (SEO) guidelines so that potential customers have a better chance of locating your company online. Google’s Webmaster Guidelines are a good place to start. They contain much of what you need to know to […]

A Brief History of SEO

What Is SEO? Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the practice of optimising a website’s appearance in search engines. In his book, Rand Fishkin, founder and former CEO of Moz, defines SEO as “the process of increasing the amount and quality of traffic you receive through organic results in search engines.” The more optimised your website […]

Location Page SEO: The Complete Checklist

How visible are your company’s local search results? Are you having trouble reaching out to local customers? This comprehensive checklist for optimising your existing location page for search engine optimization (SEO) will help you advertise and increase the number of qualified visitors to your website. Don’t worry if you don’t already have a location page! […]

SEO Rules for Website Designers

There are times when web designers forget that SEO isn’t something you add on after the project is finished. To get the greatest outcomes, SEO should be incorporated into the design process from the start. Creating your new website is an exciting milestone in increasing your online presence. Designers previously may have only focused on […]

Machine Learning and the Evolution of SEO

The continual changes in SEO can be divided into two types: a shift from search engine optimisation to search experience optimisation, and the growth of user-generated content across the Internet. According to Business Insider, 90% of internet searches are done through Google, with over a third of all search queries resulting in no clicks! Due […]