April, 2009


How old is your web site using the Wayback Machine?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Google places value on the age of your site  - for more information on this, visit the Google Help page.  So, how do you find out how long your site has been live?  There is a tool, called the Wayback Machine, that not only allows you to see the age of your own site but [...] Read More

What is Google PageRank?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Further to a previous blog post, we have been asked to explain Google PageRank.
It’s a strange thing that Google do not appear to provide a simple and suitable answer to the question “What is Google PageRank?”.  However, Wikipedia has a great description, simply search for “What is Google PageRank?“.
In summary, “PageRank is a link analysis [...] Read More

How do you find out where a site is hosted?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

As you may know, the country in which a web site is hosted is often (not always) critical to whether that site achieves Google ranking.
For example, we have been doing some SEO work for a client.   We went through some initial On Page Search Engine Optimisation (title tags, content, description tags, etc) and we would [...] Read More

New Google AdWords Interface

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

As you may know, Google is currently in beta with it’s new AdWords interface.  They have been testing it for some time with a view to global rollout.  So have we! So, is it any good?  Let’s have a quick peek.
By the way, if you want to simply lash over and try it out, jump [...] Read More

Google Page Rank - Is it Important?

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Google Page Rank is a value that indicates the importance of a web page on the internet. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page - this is how they calcuate the Page Rank. The more links (and therefore votes) that are pointing [...] Read More

DMI Assessment Guidelines

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Create a Digital Marketing Plan for a Company (or Product or Service or Division of a Company) of your choice. Should you not have a Company (or Product or Service or Division of a Company) to represent please then contact me to discuss further options.
This highlights some pointers as to what a typical Digital Marketing [...] Read More

Selecting Keywords for your AdWords campaign

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

In the previous blog, I wrote about Setting Goals in Google AdWords.  In this blog, we move onto discuss how you go about selecting your keywords for use in the campaign.
There are 5 main steps required:

Create an initial list by “brainstorming” with others (clients, colleagues, friends), writing down all the words that you think are [...] Read More

Goal Setting in Google AdWords

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

There are 6 main activities in Google AdWords that require your attention after you get up and running with a Google AdWords campaign.   The following six activities will help to improve your ad performance over time:

Setting Goals
Selecting Keywords
Developing Ads that Work
Creating Destination Pages and Sites
Tracking Your Results
Optimising Once Again

In this article, I will look at [...] Read More

How to target Multiple Countries

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Google and the other search engines do not like duplicate content as it gets in the way of showing searchers the most relevant pages.  This is a problem if you are targeting multiple countries from the same site.  When Google’s index includes multiple URLs that all lead to the same page,  Google uses the Duplicate [...] Read More

How to Set Up Conversion Tracking in Google AdWords

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

The principle behind Google’s Conversion Tracking is that you “track” the number of visitors that have “converted” after they come to your site via an AdWords campaign.  To find out how many have “converted” into a sale, lead, etc, all you have to do is track the number of people who land on a particular [...] Read More

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