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A Penguin, a Panda and $18m
Published on 2012-05-04 10:53:37
What a few days it’s been in the world of SEO. Firstly, let’s start with the obvious – a massive funding round signed by SEOMoz which was described over at Forbes. Even more astounding is the fact that this is the largest single round that Foundry have ever invested which is something that shows both > read more
Growing Pains
Published on 2012-05-01 17:39:04
When you're running your own business it feels, pretty much constantly, like the biggest battle is with growing pains > read more
Standing Out
Published on 2012-03-31 06:49:29
As we all know, times are tough and everyone’s watching their wallet more so than they ordinarily would. I had a really interesting chat with Steve from Dog Friendly a couple of weeks ago at Crufts, and he’d noticed that a magazine offer that was just one single Great British Pound was no longer enough > read more
Reputation Management 101
Published on 2012-03-15 02:39:17
Reputation management is the process of “looking after” and “protecting” your brand within search engine results and social circles. This not only protects your brand so that you are active and ready to respond to questions and feedback, but also puts you in control of what people find when searching for background information on your > read more
3 Quick SEO Tips for Spying on Your Competition
Published on 2012-02-24 03:36:28
Ever since good ol’ Yahoo took away Site Explorer and left us with the lovely Bing Webmaster Tools, plenty of small business webmasters and business owners are probably scratching their heads about where their competitors are getting links from. Well don’t worry yourself grasshopper. There are still valid options for those looking for that linking > read more
The True Cost of ‘Free’ Content
Published on 2012-02-22 08:34:32
It can be a real challenge to come up with ideas and create engaging content for your website. Making sure that you have plenty of unique content on your website that isn’t duplicated anywhere else is very important when it comes to increasing traffic and where your site stands on Google rankings. The entire lifeblood > read more
5 Styles of Leadership
Published on 2012-02-20 05:30:40
People lead in different ways and different leadership styles can all be successful. Some lead from the back, some from the front. Some businesses have a public face such as Richard Branson, who does as much PR as actual business. Others are more secretive and are more interested in keeping a close eye on accounts > read more
Basic Unix Commands to Get You Started!
Published on 2012-02-08 13:55:08
If you’re just getting started with the the basic Unix commands there are a few key prompts that you’ll use again and again. These take a bit of getting used to but can hugely speed up the process of doing things like setting up wordpress, looking at error logs, and general day to day running > read more
Why I’m Not Making New Years Resolutions.
Published on 2012-01-03 13:39:06
I noticed a Tweet the other day from another SEO saying something along the lines of ‘New Years Resolutions are for people that talk about things but don’t do them’. My first thought was ‘Great advice’, shortly followed by ‘That makes you sound like a bit of an idiot’ (in the nicest possible way)… but > read more
TextWise – Semantic Checking
Published on 2011-11-23 12:44:36
For anyone who’s an SEO and technically minded, the TextWise API is well worth looking at. I’m going to write something more detailed about how to integrate properly, but in essence you do something like the following (php example): $xml = simplexml_load_file("http://api.semantichacker.com/". $YOUR_API_KEY ."/signature/odp_2010_categorization?uri=" .$URL_TO_CHECK ."&showLabels=true"); This gives you a big list of semantic keywords > read more
Dogs + Marketing = Winner
Published on 2011-11-10 12:39:31
I’m a massive fan of clever, visual marketing… and, as pretty much everyone knows, also a dog lover. Which makes this absolutely perfect > read more
SEO Basics: Anchor Text
Published on 2011-11-06 12:10:49
Over the past couple of months we’ve been working with a few people helping teach them to do basic SEO on their sites. One question that often seems to appear surrounds anchor text. What is it? What impact does it have? Why is it so important? In short, anchor text describes the words that appear > read more
Dan Wheldon
Published on 2011-10-17 03:25:23
As pretty much anyone that knows me is aware, I love motorsport – whether it be flying around a track in a go-kart, getting up at ridiculous hours to watch F1, or wasting time on YouTube watching highlights of series like Super 1 or IndyCar. Sadly the latter of those two is the inspiration to his > read more
A change will do you good
Published on 2011-10-16 06:19:19
I made a decision this week – not to take anything new on until my current, slightly too large, to do list is at least a little more manageable. Running 3 businesses really doesn’t lend itself to being able to do everything properly so piling more and more onto the list just ended up feeling > read more
Mr and Mrs Knight
Published on 2011-08-29 16:21:34
A few photo’s from the fantastic wedding of Mr and Mrs Knight > read more
World Superbikes 2011 – Silverstone
Published on 2011-08-15 07:01:58
We’ve been working with Leon Camier for the last couple of years and now have an annual excursion to Silverstone. Suffice to say that it was a fantastic weekend with great food, drinks… and the racing of course (although a shame about the result) > read more
Glastonbury 2011
Published on 2011-07-08 06:21:58
I’ll add to this post at some point, but wanted to get the photo’s published as soon as possible. Glastonbury 2011 was my 6th excursion to the big field in Somerset and was one of the best (although that certainly couldn’t be put down to the weather). I’d have happily swapped the downpour for the > read more