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A good marketing campaign is the lifeblood of any start-up – without it, the company will surely fail. Therefore I thought I’d go through some of the Best tips and tricks to help you get ahead with your online marketing campaign.

As a digital marketing specialist I deal with a lot of web sites from a lot of different industries each and every week. The great thing about my job is that it is so varied and no two websites or campaigns I run are the same. There is however one common thread that runs between every client I deal with, and some place more emphasis on it than others. Bounce Rate. In this article I want to shine the spotlight on the humble bounce rate and try to get people thinking about it a little bit differently.

Social Media can be a harsh mistress at times. Quite often this seems increasing true for small businesses who don’t have the time or money to employ someone to look after your company’s social media accounts full time.

So you may have heard that Twitter is an indispensable tool for businesses to use. But you are a little confused as to how it applies to you as you operate a small business not some giant conglomerate? Well I’m here to say it can apply to you in these ways.

As a business owner, regardless of industry or targeted client base, anyone would agree on the benefits of having a physical shop front or office. If this shop front is well staffed, well maintained and in a good location, then clearly foot traffic will come into the store, giving your staff the opportunity to make sales and/or generate leads. The better the location, the greater the volume of foot traffic. The better your staff, the more sales and leads (not to mention the quality of these) will be achieved. All fairly simple stuff isn’t it?

So you’ve built a great Facebook page. You have a captive audience, growing numbers of likes and are achieving great results in the areas of branding and client interaction. Now how do you take this amazing work and turn it into a lead generation tool?

Ever since Google released their Penguin search algorithm update there has been the potential for someone to hurt the rankings of someone else’s website. Penguin looks for spammy links to a website (a good indicator that someone is doing cheap and nasty SEO) and drops the Google rankings of that website as a penalty for black hat SEO practices. Negative SEO, also known by the slightly more dramatic term “Link Assassination”, involves actually purchasing large numbers of spammy links for a competitor in the hopes that Google will penalise their rankings.

Google is an ever-changing landscape of innovations and methods for businesses to promote their goods and services – but how do you keep up? What happens when your competitors start utilising these avenues before you? The key is to look before you leap. Just because it’s new, doesn’t mean it’s for you. Here are a few things to consider when doing market analysis for your online advertising strategy.

An unfortunately common misconception amongst those who engage in SEO is that it is not an ongoing concern. Too many people think that once you rank, you rank. This is simply not the case.

Fiction #1: The more rankings the better. Fiction #2: Rankings = Business. Perhaps I should clarify here a little. The above points don’t have to be fiction. But whether or not they are depends entirely on you.