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Category Archives: SEO

Targeted marketing

This post is all about how you can increase your sales and enquiries, by using a targeted approach to your marketing. A great product or service, with an excellent marketing message, will still fail to generate sales – unless that message is reaching a targeted group of prospective customers.  That’s why it’s so important forContinue Reading

Google and me!

As any of my regular readers will know, me and Google have a very strange relationship!  I decided to write this blog exclusively for people and develop it’s readership via ‘social media marketing.’  As a marketing professional, I wince when I see blogs, which are clearly written primarily to score SEO points; with the actualContinue Reading

Unsexy blog posts can be valuable too!

A blogger recently told me how his analytics software was unavailable for several days. He went on to say how much more he enjoyed blogging and social networking his business during that period; without the pressure of checking ‘the numbers’ after everything he did. Freedom to blog and connect He kept saying how he enjoyedContinue Reading

Link love, Google and spammers

The results are in and I can now let you know what’s happened since I started this exciting marketing experiment! As many of you already know, jimsmarketingblog.com offers everyone who comments here a special reward; something called a do-follow link.  This is great for my readers, as it means when you comment here, your linkContinue Reading

Chunking it down!

Isn’t it strange how people think about money? There are people who happily spend £3 a day on a coffee at Starbucks, but who wouldn’t dream of investing that same £60/£70 a month on SEO for their website / blog or even a private health plan or gym membership! For those of us involved inContinue Reading

Internet marketing experiment update!

It’s almost 2 weeks since I started an experiment on jimsmarketingblog.com.  I wanted to see what REALLY happens when a blog offers a valuable, ‘do-follow link’ to everyone who comments there. What does ‘do-follow’ mean? In brief, every time you comment on my blog, you will receive a special kind of link back to yourContinue Reading

Dear Google

An open letter to the Google algorithm . Dear Google algorithm, I see from what you have done that I have REALLY offended you.  You have reduced the amount of traffic you send here by 50%, so you must be very angry with me. In view of this, I just want you to hear myContinue Reading

Focus on people – Not ‘hits’!

Because of the amazing growth of this blog, since I started marketing it just 9 weeks ago, I am getting a lot of people asking me the same question: Could you take a quick look at my blog / website Jim and give me some tips for how to get more traffic? This question isContinue Reading

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