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July 18, 2018
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Top SEOs, SEO, Search Engine Optimisation

Who Are The Leading SEOs In The UK In 2018?

By | Search Engines, SEO | No Comments

It’s been quite a while since I’ve created a top SEOs blog post, but I consistently SEO orientated digital marketers reaching out to me to see if they could be included in one of my top SEO lists.

So, let’s get something straight right from the start. The GrowTraffic, TOP SEO list is created using the vaguest of methodologies. There is a bit of science behind it but I’m not going to try to pretend that this is a scientific analysis of who the top SEOs are in the UK. You could probably conclude that this is at best competitor analysis of those competing in the SEO space in Google’s SERPs from a GrowTraffc perspective. Read More

July 11, 2018
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How To Create and Maintain Great Content for Your Website

By | Content Marketing | No Comments

The website is all good to go, the pages are well optimised, the product pictures look great and the E-Commerce shop is waiting for customers to spend their money and generate sales. It’s all very exciting, you have spent ages planning and setting up a business and you’ve depleted your hard-earned savings on having a professional website built.

But what do you do about keeping your content fresh once the website is launched? Content is King after all, and it’s a huge factor in those all-important SEO rankings that ensure your website comes out on top in the Google search.

Well you plan. That’s what. You plan your content like you plan everything else to stay well organised and on top of your game.

Want to know how to plan content for your website? Read On… Read More

July 3, 2018
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Networking, Business Networking, Breakfast Networking, Lunch Networking, Networking in Rossendale, Networking in Lancashire, Networking in Yorkshire, Bob Club, Bob Club North West, BoB Club Networking, 4Networking, 4 Networking, 4 Networking Lancashire, Valley at Work, Valley at Work Networking

The Power of Business Networking Part II

By | Rossendale, Thoughts | No Comments

How much business networking do you do for your company?

I wrote a blog way back in 2015 entitled The Power of Networking, which was about how GrowTraffic had recently started networking in the Rossendale Valley, having moved to the area a year or so earlier. It wasn’t a new venture for us, as such, because we’d done networking previously in other areas, but it was a bit of a revelation to find a community in our new locality that was so much more switched on to the benefits of networking than we’d encountered at our old one.

That’s why, since I wrote that last blog in 2015, networking has become a central pillar of GrowTraffic’s sales and growth strategy, and it’s something that all of the team take part in on a regular basis.  Read More

June 26, 2018
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SEO, SEO Infographic, SEO Crib Sheet, Blog SEO, Blogging SEO, SEO Checklist, SEO Crib Sheet, Optimising A Blog Post, Optimising Your Content For SEO.

How Do I Optimise A Blog Post For SEO?

By | Content Marketing, Google, Search Engines, SEO | No Comments

I love copywriting.

Whilst I’m currently the Managing Director of GrowTraffic Ltd (I say ‘currently’ because who knows how long this will last?!? I might win the lottery next week, in which case I’m outta here!) I started off as an SEO Copywriter, so copywriting is kind of my bag.

In fact, if you gave me the option of doing something Managing Director-ish or something copywriter-ish, I’m going to do copywriter things. Hence this blog now.

But even I, as a loyal devotee of SEO copywriting, know that writing your content is only half the battle.

Once you’ve written it, if you want to give it the best chance of ranking (which you do, otherwise what was the point of writing it in the first place?!) then you have to optimise it as you’re uploading it. Forget to do that bit, and you might as well chuck half of your lovely blog post straight in the bin.  Read More

June 19, 2018
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Content Marketing, Marketing, SEO Marketing, SEO, Blog Writing, Online Marketing, SEO Copywriting, SEO Copywriter, Digital Marketing, Digital Marketer, Online Marketer, SEO Marketer

How To Get Out Of A Marketing Rut

By | Content Marketing, Thoughts | No Comments

We all get stuck in a marketing rut at work from time to time. When you’re a marketer you’ll realise that you’re doing the same things over and over again in slightly different ways and hoping to get different results. As the old saying goes “if you always do the same things, you’ll always get the same results,” and whilst this is true, sometimes it’s hard to think of what to do next and what to do differently.  Read More

June 5, 2018
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Voice Search

Voice Search – The Evolution of SEO

By | Search Engines | No Comments

Okay so your business is going well, and according to your sales figures, (and quite possibly some SEO analysis),  your website is well optimised and getting plenty of traffic. Customers are buying your products… Hurrayyy, you can relax a little, put your feet up and be pleased you are keeping up to date with technology and business practice in the 21st Century.

Or can you? Have you heard of Voice Search and do you use it? Are customers using it to find you? In this ever changing digital age, Voice Search is the fastest growing search type worldwide, and could put some serious pressure on to the Google search model for the first time since it’s launch in 1997. Want to find out more? Read on!  Read More

May 29, 2018
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SEO Blogging-Top 5 Tips

By | Content Marketing | No Comments

Getting a website to rank isn’t as hard as you might imagine, and SEO blogging is one of the easiest ways to make it happen. But SEO blogging requires a little more consideration than just writing a few paragraphs.

But fear not-these tips are really easy and will have you writing high quality SEO blogs in no time, so you can get your website ranking in Google and grow your business.

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May 22, 2018
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Blogging, Blogs, Content Marketing, SEO Copywriting, Copywriting

What Are The Benefits of Blogging?

By | Content Marketing, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Thoughts | No Comments

What Is A Blog?

This week’s blog is about guess what? Blogging!

Which kind of makes sense, seeing as I have been writing blogs for  Grow Traffic for a few weeks now, and I haven’t really understood the benefits, other than to indulge my love of writing for my favourite SEO company, and get paid for the privilege! Win win I say! 

But before we look at the benefits of blogging, who will read your blog, and how to begin if you’ve never ventured in to blogging before but want to get started, we need to look at what actually is a blog?  Read More

May 8, 2018
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Growing Your Business Online, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Social Media Management, Social Marketing

Can Social Media Grow Your Business Profile?

By | Search Engines, Social Media Marketing | No Comments

Unless you have been living in a cave for the last ten years, or you have recently landed here from another universe, you will be all too familiar with the way Social Media is the ‘thing’ to increase your personal profile, connect with friends and colleagues, and use as a source of information for anything, from planning days out to emergency plumbers when the boiler is on the blink!

Which begs the question, just how important is social media in growing your business online? Or put another way, can you really afford not to have an online profile for your business?

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May 1, 2018
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SEO, SEO Language, SEO Terms, SEO Jargon

What Exactly Is The Mystical Language of SEO?

By | Knowledge base, Search Engines, SEO | No Comments

So, what is this SEO language they all speak of? Who are the speakers of such a complex tongue? Are these people really huddled round Diagon Alley, associates of the Ministry of Magic, purveying some dark art?

Err, in a word, No.

Sorry to dispel the myth, but the language of SEO is not something to fear and it’s certainly not something magical either.  Read More

April 24, 2018
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SEO, SEO Checklist, Search Engine Optimisation, SEO Consultant, Website SEO, SEO Marketing, SEO Infographic, Online Marketing, SEO Online Marketing

What Are The Basics of SEO?

By | Google, Knowledge base, Search Engines, SEO | No Comments

How to maximise your SEO

Okay hands up, who knew the world of SEO, (Search Engine Optimisation), was so interesting, informative and on a serious note, imperative to the successful marketing of your business?

That’s right, by maximising your SEO for your company website mean yours is the first website potential customers will come across in a search engine such as www.google.co.uk .  Read More

April 17, 2018
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Come And See Us At The Sheffield Business Show

By | News, Sheffield | No Comments

Well have we got some exciting news this week for you?!? Yes, you’ll be relieved to hear that this week’s blog is not about boring old SEO stuff this time…instead, they’re letting us all out of the office!

Next week – Thursday 26th April 2018 – the GT team (well, the larger part of it) will be de-camping down to Bramhall Lane for the Sheffield Business Show. And we’re all a little bit over-excited about it to be honest.  Read More

March 27, 2018
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Content, Content Marketing, SEO, SEO Copywriting, SEO Copywriter, SEO Marketing, Blogs, Blogging, Infographics, Videos, Video Marketing, SEO Content, Podcasts, eBooks, Whites Papers, Content Creation, Content is King, Text Content, Written Content, Words and Pictures

Why Do I Need Words And Pictures On My Website?

By | Content Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Search Engines, Social Media Marketing | No Comments

As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’m a Words Person. Not a Numbers Person – as my son is keen on reminding me – and rarely even a Pictures Person – if you’re going to stick me in an art gallery, you’re going to have to explain to me what I’m looking at. But give me words – anyone’s words; Shakespeare’s, Duffy’s, Attwood’s, hell, even Val McDermid’s – and I’m in heaven.  Read More

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