by Jo Dodds Admin on 2011-10-26
In your business blogging you need to bear in mind that consistency is going to be the key to driving steady traffic to your website, but also as a way of engaging with your readers. People will come to expect a certain style from you from your writing and even down to the font and [...]
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[ 2011-05-21; 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ] How to Get Free Website Traffic Using Blogging, SEO, and Social Media Like Facebook, Twitter and Linked-In
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2011-03-18
I have just read an excellent post on the Hubspot website about how to optimise your website page and blog posts. I have followed these basic rules for a long time – one reason why I can maintain a reasonably high level of traffic to this website without daily (or sometimes even weekly!) blogging.
Optimise your [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2011-02-02
A business associate sent me a message the other day where he remarked, having seen the website of one of my clients, “I think these style of sites for one man businesses are becoming the norm”. The style he was talking about was a WordPress site with dynamic content, including social media and a blog [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2010-12-01
Blogging with your Website
Google’s aim is to provide searchers with the information they want. When somebody puts a search into Google all the algorithms behind the scenes work to find the best possible information available relating to what that person is searching for. And one of the things Google particularly likes is fresh content. Obviously [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-08-19
Hubspot have recently published some interesting research and observations that they have made from their customer base about blogging and whether it is useful for small and medium size businesses.
Commenters (or is it commentators?!) on the Hubspot post ask whether the results are just correlation rather than causation, i.e. are those companies that are blogging [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-07-28
So, we’ve established that one of the best things that you can do for your web presence is to create regular fresh, relevant content and post it onto your website and potentially in other places online too. Today we’re going to look in more detail at how to do that.
We use WordPress
We’ve already explained [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-07-22
This is only the fourth of our series of articles about online marketing for small businesses but so far there has been one particular topic that we have mentioned each time as being an essential part of marketing your business online. And that is about regularly creating and publishing fresh, relevant content on your [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-07-07
Do you use the internet to search for information? And do you search for local products and services online. I thought so. Most people do nowadays. Only a small percentage of people regularly buy online but, as we’ve said before, many people buy offline after searching online.
“Google it”
Most of us use the internet [...]
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by Jo Dodds Admin on 2009-06-27
How exciting! My first article has been published in the Kent on Saturday today.
It’s entitled ‘Life is tweet, with a little technological know-how…’ (the headline wasn’t mine!). The article talks about how useful Twitter can be for small businesses as well as how to use it.
You can get to it using the link above but [...]
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