In 2006 Google bought YouTube for $1.6bn. At first this made a lot of sense: the largest text search engine purchased a major video host. Google are very quiet about the fact that YouTube has yet to break any major profit which leaves the obvious question – why would Google own YouTube if their motivation isn’t profit? […]
Sniply Review – Drive Traffic From ANY Website
I have saved reviewing products until I found one which I could really put my backing behind. Snip.ly is a great way of driving traffic to your website and building a social following. Snip.ly takes full advantage of social media. It allows you to share any website while linking to your own page – with call to actions – […]
Textual characteristics infographic
I have a concussion so I am keeping this nice and short. Yesterday I created an infographic on textual characteristics to go with my user engagement guide. Feel free to share it – credit is built in. I understand the wording is very basic but the visual is the important bit. Bloggers be colourful :) […]
Patreon can make your hobby a job!
I have just launched my Patreon page. For bloggers Patreon is a great way of building traffic, even if you don’t get funding. This post explains what Patreon is but also how to use it as a marketing platform, rather than a funding platform. I’m sure a lot of my readers will already know what […]
SEO Strategy Template – Keyword Planning Secrets For 2016
Good SEO strategies don’t need to be complicated. In this post I take advantage of 3 very simple ranking factors. Anybody with a website should be able to follow this keyword planning template to get more search traffic and high rankings on Google. This template doubles as a case study into the efficiency of this keyword planning strategy. SEO is a long […]
Google plus circles explained – the best network for SEO
Google didn’t just create Google+ to compete with Facebook as a social network. They also created it to make their search results more accurate and personalised. The posts you write can appear above your followers organic Google listings. If you aren’t using Google+, or if you aren’t taking advantage of Google plus’ circles your SEO is also missing out. […]