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In today's recession stricken market and unpredictable trading conditions, consumer trust is at an all-time low. Their confidence in brands is being chipped away every time a company fails to live up to customer expectations or standards...

As a Copywriter and writer in general, I cop for my fair share of criticism...

I was checking out my new followers and spotted this profile: Enlarge image in a new window It's not rocket science, but does anyone else spot the problem? This begs the questions: ...

Google Trends shows the word "retweet" first appearing in the News index in April 2008. It describes a process that SEO blog readers are no doubt familiar with - the ad hoc manner a Twitter user would take a tweet by another user and republish it for their followers...

If you are not one of the 16.6 million viewers who tuned in to watch the X Factor last night, heres a quick round up of events The X Factors terrible twins, John and Edward, who have been slated since their first audition by Simon Cowell, ended up in the bottom two with Welsh teenager Lucie Jones...

Bet you liked that last blog post eh? Made loads of sense? It's also probably not the first time you've seen a page of content that sounded that great. And linked out a billion times to somewhere else. Or was copied from your website...

If you think, SEO Manchester clients come to us at all stages of a sites SEO Manchester life cycle. For example they could have been just built or handed over from a previous SEO Manchester company...

Now Google has removed PageRank from Webmaster Tools and is rumoured to be removing it from the Google toolbar soon, what impact will this have on linkbuilding in the future?To be honest Google's PageRank was never an indicator of SEO success for a website...

We've been the target of one of the most badly gauged email marketing campaigns I've seen in a long while today...

The Business North West 2009 conference starts today, and I-COM are down there (Stand 5, right by the door) exhibiting our online marketing wares and trying like mad to educate North West businesses about the potential of social media as a means of driving traffic, promoting your brand and...

Im coming round to this Social Media thing. Whilst I still dislike using it for purely personal and social reasons (isnt face to face always better?), I can see its benefits from a business perspective...

Last night (October 21st) saw the annual Manchester Blog Awards take place at Band on the Wall. The event was part of the Manchester Literature Festival and is always a good night. If the turnout was any indication, blogging is indeed alive and well and taking on a range of subjects...

While doing some client research I came across the Leeds United website. As I am not a footie fan, my SEO spidey senses kicked in instead so I noticed they had a splash page with relatively mundane and commercial messages on it...

In a week where we've seen outcry on social media sites force a major multi-national and a powerful law firm to back down in the face of public protests in favour of freedom of the press and in which users of social media sites have also forced an apology after a Daily Mail journalist wrote a...