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A recent “Digital Conference” I attended seemed like it would be right up my street – after all Ditto Digital, as a digital marketing company, falls fairly and squarely into the digital […]

This our short video on why and how you should always be writing your blog posts with a purpose. In this video I talk about how to write a blog with a […]

Good content is essential for establishing a strong online presence, building your brand and growing your business. It is also the cornerstone of an effective link-building campaign – vital for good organic […]

A short 2 minute podcast on how to write a blog with purpose. Check out our other posts on how to write blogs. In this podcast, we talk about how to write […]

Three million. That’s the approximate number of blog posts that are written every day. So, it goes without saying when sharing content that it’s hard, really hard, to get people to find […]

It’s just over a year since Google updated it’s algorithm to focus on website load speed as a major ranking factor. Since then it has become more and more important to optimise […]

  This is our simple guide on how to purpose your blog. Check out our other content from our blog.    

  This is our simple guide to content marketing. Also check out our podcast and blog post on the same subject.  

Why not listen to our podcast about content marketing, it’s less than two minutes long!      

Good content is essential for establishing a strong online presence, building your brand and growing your business. Content marketing is also the cornerstone of an effective link-building campaign – vital for good […]

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the process by which your website ranks as highly as possible in the natural search engine results i.e. the unpaid results rather than the pay-per-click adverts. In […]

Every business wants to find more customers, increase sales, develop their brand – and in the digital world that includes having an effective social media presence. An effective social media presence does […]

I tried hard to get this quick overview on keyword research down to 60 seconds – just couldn’t do it. But it is only 83 seconds so still won’t take long to […]

I feel like I’ve only just got to grips with the longer 300 character meta descriptions, I’ve just about finished updating all my descriptions to be longer when (presumably just to keep […]

  You’ve probably noticed that the landscape or layout of the Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) have steadily been evolving over time and there are now several parts of that landscape […]

If like me you are immersed in the world of SEO then the term “website authority” or “domain authority” is a term frequently bandied about. Some years ago we would judge the […]

If you are reading this blog you probably want to increase your knowledge about keywords – most likely because you have an online business and want to improve your rankings for certain […]

We all know it is important to interact with our web visitors and potential clients – if they take the trouble to leave a comment on a blog post it’s a good […]

Sometimes when you are slogging away at digital marketing you can get disheartened when all your hard work takes a long time to produce results and you still see unethical techniques reaping […]

Google and all the other search engines are always looking for ways to stay ahead of those un-ethical individuals and companies who try to cheat the natural search engine rankings with black-hat […]

There is so much conflicting information out there about when to publish your blog posts for maximum visitor engagement that it is sometimes hard to know when to publish. You probably already […]

  I first noticed at the end of September that the keyword/query data that I can normally see when I am checking client data in Google Analytics didn’t look quite the same. […]

If you have a limited SEO budget then help yourself to boost your website’s rankings by watching this short video. Small businesses can do plenty of basic on-site SEO checks and many […]

No matter how successful your SEO campaign is there is always room for improvement. Take a client I have been working with for several years now – they have grown from a […]

All businesses could benefit from online reviews because the vast majority of customers are influenced by them, and many places will show star ratings for you in the search listings which also […]

In case you missed it, back in May, Google announced it was rebranding it’s Google Webmaster Tools as Google Search Console. It seems mainly because it is not just webmasters who use […]

And They Threaten to “Disavow” Your Website? We all know how important it is to obtain good quality inbound links (backlinks) for our websites that show the search engines that we are […]

If you read my last post you will know that a competitor of one of my clients has recently been penalised by Google because of their link profile – and very dodgy […]

I originally wrote about SEO and synonyms back in 2015 and, although, SEO is generally a fast-paced field, some factors will always remain relevant. This post was updated towards the end of […]

I had an interesting discussion with someone today from a Web Design Agency about organic SEO – he was of the view that writing content with the express purpose of gaining links […]