10 tips to get your online store ready for Christmas

10 tips to get your online store ready for Christmas

As the Christmas season fast approaches, it’s time to start preparing your online eCommerce store. If you’re uncertain about where to begin, here are 10 valuable tips to help you get started: Planning ahead Landing pages SEO Gift cards Personalisation Graphics Gift wrap Returns policy Marketing Testing 1. Planning ahead Thinking ahead is key particularly when organising events like Christmas, […]

5 ways to easily improve web accessibility

5 ways to easily improve web accessibility

  What is web accessibility and why is it important? When you have a website, you want to attract as many visitors as possible. By making your website accessible you are ensuring that is usable for a wider range of people, including those with disabilities and impairments. This gives them the ability to navigate, interact, and understand the website and […]

User Reviews – Virtual Gossip or Goldmine?

User Reviews – Virtual Gossip or Goldmine?

It’s funny how no matter what direction technology pushes us in, people always default to what they know works. If you’re a ‘bricks and mortar’ retailer and you’ve been trading for many years, you will probably remember a time before all this Internet malarkey when ‘word of mouth’ was the key to getting sales. People would travel from miles around […]

Intelligent Speakers and Search Engines

Intelligent Speakers and Search Engines

As an avid Science Fiction fan, I often marvel at how modern innovations often mirror or even surpass the other-worldly technology showcased in my favourite movies and television shows. Who ever thought when Star Trek was first aired in early 1966 that hand-held communicators, speaking computers and particle weapons would become a reality just a few short decades later. It’s […]

Beginner’s Guide: How to get the best insights of your Search Console Performance report

Beginner’s Guide: How to get the best insights of your Search Console Performance report

Graphs, numbers, metrics and statistics – sounds overwhelming, doesn’t it? In this blog post we will guide you through the Google Search Console Performance report step by step so that you can get the best insights about your business’ online performance. What is Google Search Console? Google Search Console is a web service tool where you can get all your […]

The Nofollow Conundrum

The Nofollow Conundrum

What’sthe best way for a software developer to fix any bugs that it creates in its own software? Simple… get the software’s users to report the issues. This crowd sources any testing (for free!), meaning the software developer doesn’t have to pay out for expensive and time-consuming user testing, plus it gets the bugs fixed faster, meaning more robust software […]

Video Marketing – Why You Need It

Video Marketing – Why You Need It

I read with sadness back in May this year about the demise of Grumpy Cat, the internet meme sensation who not only shot to fame because of a genetically malformed face but ended up netting her owners millions of dollars in revenue in the process. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48308638 Part of Grumpy Cat’s meteoric rise to fame was the viral effect of video […]

On-Page Optimisation for eCommerce in 2019

On-Page Optimisation for eCommerce in 2019

On-Page Optimisation for eCommerce in 2019 There are those in the Online Marketing community who will try to convince any potential new client that ‘Search Engine Optimisation’, especially on-page optimisation is some kind of mystic artform, the knowledge of which is only available to a tenth level monk who lives on the top a mountain in the Himalayas. The guy […]