Author Archives: Louise Gorrie

Fashion web design gets practical

Todays hottest 100 website is home to the French first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Ok, so she’s an ex-model so it had to be pretty and she’s French so it had to be stylish, but as an ambassador for her country … Continue reading

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And your time starts now…

How much time do you think visitors spend at your website? I know most site owners like to think visitors will spend in excess of 15 minutes browsing pages in their website whilst sipping on a cup of tea. Jakob … Continue reading

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SEO for Bing

I’ve been ignoring Bing as a search engine, mostly because it’s made by the evil Microsoft. However, it’s now overtaken Yahoo for most of our clients sites as the second largest search engine referrer. That is no threat to Google … Continue reading

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Windows v Mac: The love hate relationship

If you feel like killing some time, this is a hilarious article published in the Guardian. Who knew Microsoft thought Windows was cool enough to have its own launch party for Windows 7? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/28/charlie-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows Of course the solution is Linux… … Continue reading

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I heart web design

I have a large collection of site’s I admire, either because they have a great look or really intuitive navigation or great use of colour. Either way, it’s a shame to keep them to myself and the sites deserve a … Continue reading

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Using Twitter for Business

I’m still sitting on the fence regarding the use of social media for B2B online marketing. However, Twitter have created Twitter 101, a guide to encourage you to use it for your business. They provide some novel examples of how … Continue reading

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Beware of Netregistry Traffic Accelerator SEO or other Mass Links Pages

This morning we had a client lose all of the hard work we’ve applied for the last four months. This client was making their way up the rankings for a number of competitive keywords and were sitting at page two … Continue reading

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Link Building Services

We are pleased to launch stand alone link building services. With Google finally admitting link building a significant factor in getting a high ranking, we thought it was time to offer these services to the general public, instead of just … Continue reading

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Google's Search Engine Rankings: Brand Bias

Aaron Wall has written an interesting post about the latest Google update and how the search engine giant is currently favoring big brands in the rankings. It sounds not particularly automated and more of a manual manipulation of search engine … Continue reading

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Understanding SEO | Choosing an SEO Agency

UPDATE: 9 Dec 2010 Matt Cutts, Google, has released this video to explain more about why we can’t guarantee a number one ranking. ____ ends ____ I think one of the hardest aspects of our industry is making the client … Continue reading

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