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What visuals accompanied your latest big campaign? Were there beautiful people doing beautiful things with your beautiful products? Probably. Were those people around the 18 – 30 age group? Almost certainly. And did anyone have a visible disability? Probably not. Marketers are coming under fire as the spotlight has turned on the lack of diversity and inclusion in the industry. With these issues a ‘trend’ for 2018, it’s only natural that the wider community demands we become...

Search presents an ever-changing landscape, offering new challenges and a diverse set of opportunities on a daily basis. In this research piece, we consider the latest trends in relation to lead generation using Google AdWords. What changes do you need to make, in order to stay multiple steps ahead of the competition? The importance of mobile Right now, if you’re not getting mobile right, then you’re losing out on business. Back in May 2015, Google announced that the...

Do you want your business to be the next Coca Cola or Google? We love it when clients think big, but we’re also endlessly encountering businesses that are finding success targeting sectors that appear to be small. Creating a leading search engine, or an incredibly popular soft drink that can be sold to the masses, certainly provides one route to success. But there’s a lot to be said for being a big fish in a small pond....

SEMrush is a tool that is marketed as offering competitive data for digital marketing professionals. It's a piece of software that we've used regularly in recent years and have come to know pretty well. We're not big on doing long-winded reviews, but we thought that you might be interested in receiving some insight into how SEMrush works and whether it could be useful to your business. So let's start with the basics: Subscription costs You can access a very...

How much of an impact is e-commerce having within the UK economy? How many millions of pounds are being spent online each year? They say that a picture is worth a thousand words and we certainly believe that this image tells its own story: Follow our series on the growth of e-commerce within the UK to get insights into what the future may hold....

More is bought and sold online in the UK than in any other nation in Europe. What’s the secret to the UK’s e-commerce success story? Over the coming weeks, we’re going to be taking a closer look at the history of online sales in the UK. We’ll examine the key businesses at the forefront of the digital sales charge and we’ll also look at what the future may hold. In preparing this series, we’ve relied upon a...

Does your Adwords account currently rely on showing the same ad (or set of ads) for every single keyword? That's probably bad news for a number of reasons, including the fact that it's unlikely that you ad will appear to be the most relevant one that's being presented to many searchers. Why should that be a concern? Primarily because you'll be faced with a low Click Through Rate (CTR), which may in turn lead to a low...

Conversion rates play a central role within online marketing, but why are they so important? In this blog post, we'd like to take a look at the meaning of the term, together with some practical examples of why you should pay attention to your conversion rate statistics. What does it mean? So, what is a conversion rate? In essence, it provides a way of measuring the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. It represents the proportion of website visitors...

Before launching into this article, it might make more sense to begin by asking: do you know who Matt Cutts is? He's the head of Google's webspam team and is increasingly seen as the public face of Google, when it comes to providing information about SEO. His blog contains notes on what you should be doing, as well as techniques that should be avoided. As a result, he regularly issues guidance on a broad range of issues. There's...

If you're having SEO work carried out, then does it really matter where you chosen provider is located? Given that we market our services for local businesses on many occasions, it's safe to assume that we think that local knowledge really matters, but we would say that, wouldn't we?! The question is: why does it matter? Why is it more useful for a small business in Hampshire to use an SEO consultant in Winchester or Southampton, rather than...