Ever wondered what each American State searches for the most?
The housing blog Estately recently combed through 11 years of Google search data and rounded up the most frequently used terms state by state. Continue reading
Author: Simon Day
Which WordPress platform should you choose?
WordPress has dominated the global blogging market for many years. If you have decided you want to use WordPress for your platform you have two choices. You could choose to host it on your own server or you could use the servers on WordPress itself. But what does that mean and what it right for you? Continue reading
How to start on Social Media
How you get started on social media can be quite bewildering for many. There are lot of choices on which platforms to choose, how to use it, when to use it and so on… Continue reading
10 types of content that will earn links
Struggling to get better rankings on google? Links have had a nervous and shaky life. Many websites abused it and paid the price by dropping off the Google cliff. A safer way is generating good content that people will share and link too. But what type of content will people want to link too? Continue reading
9 ways to avoid being demoted on Google Panda
On July 18th Google did a slow roll out of Google Panda. First released in 2011 this algorithm roots out poor quality sites with little content and moves them down the rankings. The reverse happens to good quality websites with good content… Continue reading
Facebook analytics: 10 metrics you should be tracking
Facebook provide everyone with free analytic so you can see how well you’re posts are doing. If you are having to report to others the growth of your Facebook page then there are 10 metrics that could be showing…
7 important metrics for analysing Twitter stats
While impressions and re-tweets are important they are still only a part of the overall understanding of what your audience likes and ignores. The best times to tweet will help but understanding more of the metrics will help even more… Continue reading
The best times to tweet on Twitter
Do your tweets not seem to reach out as far as you thought it would? It could be that your content isn’t as engaging as you had hoped. Is it also possible that you’re tweeting at the wrong time of day?
Getting the time right is important. Targeting the age-group at the right time of the day (or night) will help you reach the people you’re hoping to attract. Continue reading
9 Steps to Help You Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking
My first web design job meant travelling across Europe and giving presentations about the websites I had created. I had to stand up in front of many leading scientists and if they could see my hands they would have seen them shaking like crazy. I was young then and very nervous.
There are ways to tackle these fears. The following infographic by Entrepreneur gives really clear tips and steps you can take to help fight back the nerves. Continue reading
50+ Ways to improve your search engine rankings
Does your website some more web traffic? Do you need some help getting your site higher on the search engines?
Search engines like Google require the HTML/structure to be set out in a way that will make sense to the user. Even when that’s all done you then need to build upon that initial work with new content, social media promotion and so on… Continue reading