Negative Search Engine Optimisation – Are Your Competitors Shady? There’s an old saying… “If you hear a lie often enough, it becomes the truth!†Google used to say repeatedly that there was absolutely no way that anyone could negatively affect anyone else’s website search engine listings by under-hand means. This “truth†was believed by many. Most online marketers now know […]
Google eyes up change to go Mobile-First
This November Google’s Webmaster Central Blog made a big announcement. Google has a major shakeup in how its search ranking algorithm will assess website content and usability penned in for the near future.
6 Expensive Ecommerce Errors You’ll Want To Avoid
Making errors is sometimes unavoidable, but in ecommerce, mistakes can cost you a lot of money. Be smart with how you manage your business to make sure you aren’t wasting money. These six points should help you manage your ecommerce venture in a more streamlined and agile way. Lazy SEO management Don’t get lazy with SEO – it will cost […]
Presentation at PATS Telford 2016
Two of our SEO specialists presented a seminar this past weekend at the Pets and Aquatics Trade Show (PATS) at its autumn venue, The International Centre, Telford. Tina Jones and Nathan Stevens presented an eCommerce seminar covering
Link Building the Right Way
Link building. Just the words bring out dread and fear in many online marketers. Why? Because link building, just like telemarketing and working on a production line can be onerous, soul destroying task you really wouldn’t wish on a Hedge Fund owner, let alone your worst enemy. But trust me on this, if you think like this then you’re doing […]
Google Search Quality Guidelines
Imagine playing a game where the rules aren’t published, it costs you money every time you lose and you are more or less obliged to play in order to survive. I’m going to call this ‘the Google game‘; it’s something that Online Marketers like myself know how to play very well.
Google Local Search Ranking Factors
Why Targeting ‘Short Tail’ Is Back Traditionally, optimisation of retail (eCommerce) websites has been all about so called ‘long tail’ keyphrases. These keyphrases are the ones which usually refer to the product level or brand+product type. The reason for this is quite logical and is based on user behaviour, in that people generally shop online in a certain way for […]
Proud to Present at PATS Telford 2015
Intelligent Retail was proud to present a seminar at this autumn’s Pets and Aquatics Trade Show (PATS) over the 27th and 28th September, at the show’s brand new venue in Telford. It was a great environment for David and Nathan from the Creative Online Marketing team to talk on the subject of Search Engines, providing the audience with some great […]
Seminars on Google Penguin Update and Cookie Law
The Intelligent Retail eCommerce and SEO seminar team presented on some hot topics at this year's Autumn Fair. Packed with practical advice, the team shared their knowledge of eCommerce and Google to answer some of the most common questions retailers have as well as some important newsworthy developments in eCommerce and SEO affecting all retailers. Read more…
Last week’s first SEO webinar: ‘How To Get More From Google’
Last Thursday, myself, Peter Shorney, and Nathan Stevens of the Creative Online Marketing team held a webinar 'How To Get More From Google'. This was rather successful, allowing us to share some of the things we'd learned about Google's ranking factors. We'd like to thank everyone who was able to watch the webinar, and all of the positive comments afterwards. […]