What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)? SEO is a marketing discipline focused on growing visibility in organic (non-paid) search engine results. SEO encompasses both the technical and creative elements required to improve rankings, drive traffic, and increase awareness in search engines. There are many aspects to SEO, from the words on your page to...
Responsive Web Design Explained!
You’ve probably heard the term but what does it actually mean? What is it? Responsive web design is a modern approach of creating a website which provides an optimal viewing experience no matter what the device. For example, if a responsive website is viewed on a mobile phone, you as the will not need...
Simplify your Online Marketing Campaign
Online marketing can seem like a blur when you’re used to more traditional forms of advertising. We’ll admit, it probably doesn’t help that we use so many acronyms such as PPC, SEO and CRO. It makes online marketing seem endlessly complicated, when, in reality, there are simple steps you can take to streamline your campaign...
The Importance of Business Blogging
Effective content marketing is all about the pull, not the push. Business blogging is a great way of achieving this. In fact, marketers who implement a strategic blogging game plan generate up to 67% more leads than those with no clue as to what they are doing, which is why you need to keep...
2017 Top Tips For Marketers
Successful content marketers experience 7.8x more website traffic than businesses that don’t produce quality content While high-quality content is difficult to produce without the skills and knowledge, the outcomes of it can be very rewarding. People who succeed at becoming leaders in the world of content marketing are producing compelling and engaging content. The...
Ways to Optimise your Content for the Web Reader
Imagine you pick up a book – it’s a single piece of content that you’re very likely to read from beginning to end. A newspaper – there’s more variety, but you’ll probably read three or four articles in full. What happens though when you get to the internet and are swamped by choice? With...
How To Use Twitter For Your Business
In 2008, a small ‘micro-blogging’ platform, Twitter, was slowly starting to gain momentum. Limited to only 140 characters. Fast forward to 2016 and whether you love it or hate it, you’re probably on Twitter too. It’s found a firm seat in the top three most popular social networks in the UK, with a global audience...
‘The Agony Of Trying To Unsubscribe’ – James Veitch
Here at Give The Dog A Bone we’d hate to bombard you with unwanted emails! We thought you’d appreciate this short clip of how to deal with pestering email campaigns! It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company...
Producing Quality Content
Content is what inspires, educates and compels your users. It inspires them to try new things, educates them to take action and encourages them to come back for more. It also helps search engines to pick up your website for certain search phrases and terms. The challenge is that now your users are expecting...
What Is Google Adwords?
Google Adwords is the single most popular PPC advertising system in the world. The AdWords platform enable businesses to create ads that appear on Google’s search engine and both Google properties. AdWords operates on a pay-per-click model, in which users bid on keywords and pay for each click on their advertisements. Every time a...