How to grow a digital agency – a success story

January 18, 2010
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It’s a Saturday morning and I am reading the latest .net magazine. By the way, It’s a great magazine for all Internet enthusiasts.  I am reading an article about the digital agency Fortune Cookie whilst eating my fried egg breakfast.
.net profiles a digital agency every month and this month they were covering the agency fortunecookie.co.uk [...]

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Hype or reality: How is real time search affecting SEO?

December 21, 2009
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What is Google real time search and how is it going to change the rules of engagement when it comes to SEO?
Real time search is the big talk of the day at the moment. On December 7 Google announced the release of their real time search in this blog post Relevance meets the real-time web. [...]

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Top 10 SEO myths revealed

December 13, 2009
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Do you find SEO mystifying? I know I did when I first started. I decided to get to the bottom of it all and here is what I found
1. Keyword and description META tags are the most important part of SEO
This used to mean something a few years ago. Now days the Keyword META tag [...]

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How I got my first 100 Twitter followers

December 5, 2009

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7 easy steps to your first 100 twitter followers. For those of you who are new to Twitter (like me), here is how I got my first 100 followers. Tips for twitter newbies.

I am reasonably new to twitter. I opened my twitter account about four months ago and really started tweeting a [...]

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Top 10 SEO tips to help you improve your search ranking

November 10, 2009
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In the past few years I have helped many website owners achieve first page listing in Google. When I asked myself what are the top 10 most crucial elements that must be right to achieve first page listing, this is what I came up with. Without exception I have had to get every single element [...]

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Keyword Research 101

November 2, 2009
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Analyse and target the right keywords for your website in 2 easy to follow steps.
1. Brain storm keywords
If you are selling a niche product or service then your job is easy. You just list all variations of keywords for your niche topic and try to think of related words.
Here is what I would recommend:
Name all [...]

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