Brighton SEO is a digital marketing conference held twice a year. The conference has grown from a conversation in a pub about some SEOs getting together to the biggest conference of its kind in the UK. I, along with several of my colleagues, recently attended for the third time, hoping to boost our digital marketing skills and learn new ways of working.… Read the rest
Because no one likes waiting around. In this blogpost I am going to talk through Google PageSpeed Insights. I will discuss the new page speed indicator and best practices for optimization.
Ready? … Set … GO!
Page Speed is measured using the Chrome User Experience report database.… Read the rest
Recently, my fellow apprentice, James, wrote a blog on digital marketing apprenticeships. With an increasing number of young people choosing apprenticeships over higher education, I wanted to share my first-hand experience and explain the many benefits of a digital marketing apprenticeship.… Read the rest
Maximising ad visibility within a targeted audience is a crucial aspect of social media advertising. However, with so many users to potentially advertise to, how do you decide which cohorts of users to target? In theory, a Facebook advertising campaign has the power to reach 1 in 3 people – so hardly very targeted.… Read the rest
Despite the continued dominance of Google within the world of PPC, it continually surprises me how little the Display Network is used as part of a holistic paid strategy.
Seemingly viewed by many -if at all- as a throwaway, bolt-on campaign for retargeting; the Display Network has the capability to be so much more.… Read the rest
Rankbrain does what Hummingbird was supposed to do. Hummingbird itself replaced Caffeine. And Caffeine was built on the success of two other … OK I’ll stop. The point is that Google has a long history of rolling out algorithm updates that ‘promote or punish’ when it comes to content.… Read the rest
We conduct a lot of link profile management for our clients either as part of our SEO activity or as a one-off for agencies (via our Partner Programme) and SEO / marketing managers around the world.
One of the most common network of spam sites we see is part of what we call “The Globe Network”.… Read the rest
Here at Marketing Signals, there are two younger members of staff completing an apprenticeship in digital marketing, myself being one them. With the new academic year about to start and a lot of school/college leavers continuing their education into University or Sixth Form, perhaps it’s time you thought about the next step in your career?… Read the rest
In its simplest form, at a macro level, SEO can be broadly divided into two composite parts: link building/off-page work and on-page/technical changes. Often, when working with a medium or large organisation, the client will already have a development team in place who are responsible for making the technical on-page changes to the website.… Read the rest
