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4 Easy SEO Wins for E-commerce Websites

SEO is an ever-evolving beast but one principle remains the same: if you want to have a successful eCommerce business and run a website that people actually visit, then you need to make sure you have a world-class SEO strategy. In order to make sure that you have the best possible SEO strategy there are … Read more

Link Building Strategies for eCommerce Sites

Link Building Strategies for eCommerce Sites

How is link building different for eCommerce sites? While the basic process of building links in itself works the same whether for eCommerce sites or any other sites, most SEO experts agree that eCommerce can be more difficult for one particular reason: It’s hard to get people to link to pages that have high commercial … Read more

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Google Penguin Update

UPDATE: According to Google the last manual update of Google Penguin started on Friday 23rd September 2016.  So far, I have not seen any effect in any Irish websites or SERPs that I am tracking, it may take a few weeks for the full roll-out of the integrated algorithm. After many years of waiting for … Read more

Email Marketing for Accountants

Email Marketing for Accountants

Exactly 50 years ago, a technology that will disrupt the way we communicate was invented. Apart from being convenient, email marketing has a very strong return on investment – for every pound you invest in it, you can expect to earn £42, which makes it one of the most cost-effective marketing approaches for accountants. And … Read more

What is content marketing

What Is Content Marketing and Why It Matters? 

Long gone are the days when you could promote your business and attract new customers by means of traditional marketing methods such as TV commercials, newspaper ads, and spam emails. Modern customers can now fast-forward your commercials, ignore your newspaper ads, and send pushy emails directly to spam. Banner blindness can render your marketing efforts … Read more

Online marketing for accountants

Online Marketing for Accountants

Digital marketing has the highest ROI, and yet many accounting firms still mainly rely on the outbound approach and its traditional marketing methods. Although you can still attract new clients through newspaper ads, TV and radio commercials, and billboards, digital marketing has become indispensable for the firms providing accounting services. In this post, we’ll discuss … Read more

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Cheap SEO – Is that what you want?

First off, no I don’t offer cheap SEO and this is not an ad for cheap services.  In fact, I have a philosophical problem with any business that brands their services as cheap. Recently a client told me that their current SEO provider was cheaper and that they had various quotes that were also cheaper … Read more

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SEO Competition Research

Before starting to target your particular area online it is important to perform competition research first to find out as much information as possible.  These are the main areas I need to have information about: Is there traffic Who are your competitors? How much will it cost to compete? How long will it take to … Read more