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Map Analytics session data to list of crawled URLs

If you want to determine how effective/valuable each URL is on your website in terms of SEO authority, quality of content and conversion opportunity, this guide can help you gather the data you need, which can act as a nice supporting document for an overall content audit document. In this guide I specifically look at how to map Analytics…

Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Introduced to Search Results Pages

Just last month my newly acquired mother in law proudly showed off to me her first ever smartphone. Hardly a momentous moment for most people but for Barbara this was a big deal. She was, until this point, the person least interested in mobile phone technology I had ever come across. In fact she kept…

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New In Shopping: Google Moves to Make GTINs a Required Attribute

Until September 2015 Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) had always been just a recommended attribute within the Google shopping feed – with merchants able to select 2 of the unique identifiers (brand, gtin and mpn). In September Google released an update that started to require GTINs for products in a merchants feed; the initial introduction…

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Google Removes Ads from Right Hand Side And Introduces A Fourth Advert Above The Organic Results

So they’re at it again. With a swipe of their mighty finger search giant Google has once again put the search industry into a spin with its latest update to the search results pages. On Friday the 19th February 2016, Google removed the ads from the right hand side of search results pages. This change…

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The 7 T’s For Instagram Success

What You Need to Know to IG Your Business Instagram, the photo-sharing app set up in 2010 which is still free-to-use, released figures in September 2015 showing over 400million active monthly users, a figure that’s hard to ignore. With such a huge audience available to small, medium and large businesses alike, and at minimal expense,…

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Top Social Media Predictions for 2016

With more advancements than you can shake a selfie stick at, here’s our predictions on which trends will make the difference to your business in 2016. Social commerce With 2016 the year Pinterest and Instagram finally launch their ‘buy’ buttons to UK businesses, one-click social purchasing will firmly move into the spotlight of your paid…

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Top tips for marketing small and local businesses within Google – presented by Ann Stanley at the Business Show Olympia

Ann Stanley presented her top tips for marketing in Google for small and local businesses at The Business Show in Olympia. With all the recent changes in Google + and the local results, Ann is predicting that the local listings or map results will become ads by the end of next year! The presentation included:…