Starting Something New

September 23, 2009

From what I’ve recently read in the media, more and more people are starting up or thinking about starting new businesses after redundancy, no doubt because they want more control over their own future. When it comes to setting up a new online presence, there’s a few key things to do to make sure you [...]

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Blog Talk Radio Interview

September 15, 2009

Yesterday afternoon I was interviewed by Louise Barnes-Johnston of Frontline Results on her Blog Talk Radio show. The subject of the show was Bing and SEO (Bing is the new Microsoft search engine). I speculated on what impact Bing may have in the future and the future of SEO, plus a bit about Google and [...]

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Give People What They’re Looking For

September 11, 2009

We all want to attract lots of visitors to our website in the hope that they’ll be interested enough to buy from us, or at least make an enquiry. We research our keywords, find the ones with good volumes of traffic, target our pages etc etc, and hope that we’ll soon have visitors flocking to [...]

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Creating Trust with Prospects

September 4, 2009

Having been working in the SEO industry for quite a long time, I’ve come across many businesses who have had their fingers burnt by ‘SEO’ firms or find it difficult to find someone they can trust, particularly as there’s so much conflicting information out there.
For larger businesses who have significant budgets to spend with a [...]

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Forty First Re-Launches Website

August 19, 2009

I expect you’ve noticed that we now have a brand new website! I’ve been planning this for a while, mainly because our web presence has been somewhat fragmented and I decided it was about time it was all brought together.
For the last 5 years or so, I’ve been maintaining 3 sites; the main Forty First [...]

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Yahoo! & Microsoft Sign Deal

July 29, 2009

Yahoo! and Microsoft have finally signed a deal which they hope will mean they can compete with Google – in fact I would say that it allows Microsoft to compete much more with Google.
Yahoo! and Microsoft have been having talks for quite a while, at least a year, about joining forces and today those talks [...]

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