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SEO Scotland, It’s a growing communtiy

Posted September 12th by Colin Boyd in SEO

I’ve been back in Scotland (Ayrshire) for slightly over a year now and I must say that when I arrived back I never expected there to be as much SEO/Online Marketing activity as there is.

Firstly when I joined Equator in Glasgow around February I had the great pleasure of meeting the techie geek Michael Briggs, [...]


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5 Tips for Protecting your Brand Online

Posted August 3rd by Colin Boyd in Business, Google, Ring Fencing, SEO, SEO Guide, Travel SEO

Are you losing your own business?
Many businesses don’t consider their position on search engines below the number 1 spot. Out of the 10 listings on search engine pages most businesses presume that people searching for there businesses will click on the correct URL. How does a new customer know which is the correct URL?
A while [...]


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10 Tips for Local Business Search Engine Marketing

Posted August 2nd by Colin Boyd in Ayrshire, Business, Google, SEO, SEO Guide

Here is a simple list of tips you should consider if marketing your website locally.
1. Get listed in local online directories.
Examples for Ayrshire: http://www.browseayrshire.com, http://www.ayr-web.co.uk
How to find more: Search Google for Region or City plus directory
2. Join your local Chamber of Commerce.
Most UK Chamber of Commerce websites have an online directory of members and there [...]


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Flock, I’m loving it

Posted August 1st by Colin Boyd in Blogging, SEO

So, A while back I was messing around with some stuff and I downloaded Flock, the social media web browser. At first I didn’t know what to do with it but now I’m getting the hang of it.
This is my first post from Flock to my Blog and is simply a test to see if [...]


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Is Yahoo Site Explorer Gone?

Posted July 12th by Colin Boyd in SEO

This morning I visited my favorite SEO website siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com only to find that it is no longer there and has been replaced by Yahoo’s advanced search.
Has it gone for good?
UPDATE: It’s back….:)
Most have been any update or something


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Ayrshire Web Design Companies

Posted July 6th by Colin Boyd in SEO

Google the well known search engine growth massivly in terms of popularity due to the fact that the seaqrch results it returns where of better quality then the other search engines existing at the time.
So when I had to find a Web Design company in the Ayrshire area I was amazed to find that Google [...]


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SEO Reporting Top Tips

Posted July 5th by Colin Boyd in SEO

For most people that either own a web based business or promote there products or services via the internet the task of online marketing and search engine optimising is never that far away. For many search engine marketing seems daunting, as it is. For other “have a go” heros it’s provides the perfect balance of learning [...]


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Mini Jetcleaner and Dodgy SEO

Posted July 2nd by Colin Boyd in SEO

Tonight I was having a look around some local web design and online marketing companies.
What I found was that none really had a good client list or proof of there skills. Then I discovered what can only be described as a ‘good con”
I found a new website www.dynamic-webs.co.uk 
oh what a way to show off your great seo achievements, [...]


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