Author Archives: Kadie Dobson

About Kadie Dobson

Kadie is a member of the web marketing team at KPI. She is a Journalism graduate of John Moores University. Email: kadie.kpib@gmail.com Google+

Extended Lease Domains Made Available to Site Owners

On May 1st, SEOs and website owners were treated to a new opportunity to possibly increase page ranking through a positive change in domain buying possibilities. The UK’s registry for domains originally announced in November that it would be changing … Continue reading

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Have you been p..p…p…picked up by penguin?

Google’s latest update, called Penguin, has been the talk of the internet marketing world this week, causing ruffled feathers and met with a generally – ahem – frosty reception. Aside from paving the way for a seemingly unending number of … Continue reading

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How will the EU cookie law affect your business?

On the 26th of May the dreaded ‘EU cookie law’ comes into force. It was 2009 when the EU directive originally instructed members of the EU to create laws on locally stored files in regard to online privacy – particularly … Continue reading

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Internet Marketing and SEO Conference Speaker

For those who want to learn about SEO and development in the internet marketing world, there is perhaps no better way than through an engaging and inspirational conference led by a knowledgeable speaker. KPI’s very own Principal Consultant Graham Loosley … Continue reading

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Webmasters Warned Over Unnatural Links

Here on the SEO blog we commonly refer to black hat SEO tactics. One of the most common black hat tactics is poor quality link-building. We have recently been contacted by numerous site owners who have found themselves downgraded or … Continue reading

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Optimising Facebook profiles for search

As we’ve previously discussed on the blog, mobile web traffic is increasing, with nearly 12% of website traffic coming from smartphones and tablets alone. Beating even this, however, is Facebook, which sees 50% of its traffic coming from mobile users; … Continue reading

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Too Flash for their own good? SEO on Flash sites

Keep your website simple for improved SEO Sometimes designers let style get in the way of substance. It happened with the sleek new iPhone 4 case which caused the phone to lose signal, the cars which are modified to be … Continue reading

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A Top Level Domain for Scotland?

As Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond announced plans for an independence referendum in 2014 the odds of Scotland becoming an independent nation may have increased. But how is national identity reflected on the Internet? Top Level Domains (TLDs) such as … Continue reading

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SEO vs Social Media: Which Is More Important?

Webmarketing123’s State of Digital Marketing Report showed interesting figures for SEOs last month. The majority of B2B marketers (57%) and almost half of B2C marketers (41%) said SEO had the biggest impact on their lead generation goals of all online marketing tactics. By contrast, … Continue reading

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Will Facebook’s privacy bug affect the relevance of social media marketing?

Facebook’s latest privacy issue was once again the talking point of this week.The website’s bug saw some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private Facebook photographs being hacked and posted online (bizarrely on a bodybuilding forum, but let’s ignore that bit). Users claim that … Continue reading

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