KPI at Retra’s Annual Industry Conference

Retra conference SEO presentation

When asked to deliver a presentation again at this year’s Retra conference, we were delighted to attend and offer our expertise. Our SEO expert Graham Loosley travels far and wide these days, and despite it being his birthday, he made the trip to London’s Lancaster Hotel to help electrical companies across the UK succeed in online marketing.

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How Pinterest Analytics Will Benefit SEO

Social networking is not necessarily all social and no networking, as an old university lecturer of mine once said. It’s impossible to ignore the impact it’s had on businesses and marketing. While Pinterest may not be the most obvious choice for SEO strategies, it’s quickly spreading to favour more commercial enterprises.

Pinterest LogoThough mostly used as an image sharing site, Pinterest is fast becoming one of the largest social networking sites on the internet, since its beta release in 2010. By giving users the opportunity to ‘pin’ funny, interesting, inspiring or perhaps more abstract images onto virtual ‘notice boards’, it creates a whole other avenue for people to express themselves.

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How did Interflora get back in Google’s good books so quickly?

Risking the wrath of Google is never a good idea: just ask Interflora – who were recently caught out using dodgy SEO tactics. Overnight the online florist disappeared from Google’s search results for all their major search terms. With all this taking place just a couple of weeks before Mothering Sunday, it was expected to be a very costly blunder, but now, just a fortnight on from their initial disappearance, Interflora is back at the top of the rankings. So the question everyone is asking is: how has Interflora pulled off this comeback?

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Google dish out SEO setback to Interflora in the run up to Mother’s day

Bouquet of flowers courtesy of _-0-_ from flickr

If you actually want people to see your website, you need to make sure it’s optimised so it appears high in the search results. However, you also need to make sure the strategies your SEO company use are ethical and reliable. Interflora has become the latest big name company to get hit with a penalty from Google for breaking its rules. The timing couldn’t be worse for the online florist, with Mother’s Day right around the corner.

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KPI at the boat show

Boat Show SEO

Our very own SEO expert, Graham Loosley, is very much in demand these days. He’s spoken at hundreds of conferences, meetings and events over the years, so when he was asked to deliver an SEO presentation at the Boat Show, we weren’t surprised.

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KPI is hiring for January 2013

2012 has been another year of strong growth for KPI; we’re proud of our team and we’re privileged to work with such great clients. We’re seeing increasing demand for our services and we have new campaigns scheduled to start every month for the foreseeable future.

We’re ready to start another group of Digital Marketing Trainees in January/February 2013 and we have vacancies in the following areas: SEO, PR, Link building, Copywriting, Social Media and PPC.

The candidates we’re looking for need to be fast learners, graduates in essay subjects or possibly with three good ‘A’ levels in essay subjects, and ambitious to build a career within a growing Agency.

All roles are based at our head office in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

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How do we spend $100 Million per day on Google Adwords?

$100 Million spent every day on Google Adwords

Google Adwords $100 MillionImagine being Google: every day they sell over $100 million of search advertising, this is split between 5.6 billion daily ad impressions on Search and 24.2 billion on the Display Network, when Google Ads are displayed on third party web sites.

In terms of Google Ad clicks daily, it’s around 237.9 million Google ad clicks across search and display. Continue reading “How do we spend $100 Million per day on Google Adwords?” »

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Email is going mobile – marketers need to catch up [Infographic]

Email marketing for mobiles

Smartphones are everywhere and soon the desktop won’t be the  primary email device.

ReturnPath collected around a billion pieces of data in their research so their numbers are sound and the conclusion is Email marketers need to pay attention to smartphones. And if you’re not already an email marketer then perhaps the adoption of smartphones means that you should become one? Continue reading “Email is going mobile — marketers need to catch up [Infographic]” »

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Do you need keywords in your domain name?

It seems the folks at Google are finally getting around to doing all the things they said they’d do. We’ve been telling customers for years that keywords in domain names won’t be as important. Now our predictions are finally coming true.

Matt Cutts first announced Google were thinking of changing the situation a couple of years ago, but it never happened. Then last Friday there was this:

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SEO is dead, again (Infographic)

SEO is dead, again..

SEO is dead againI’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard that “SEO is dead” over the last decade, in fact it’s become a bit of an in-joke in the  SEO world. In my view Businesses will always want to get traffic to their web sites from Search Engines, Search Engines will always use algorithms, SEOs will always be required.

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