LinkedIn is up there as one of most important social media and publishing platforms for B2B social media marketing. For marketers like us at Efecktive it’s peerless when it comes to getting a business in front of the right professionals and decision makers. But (and it’s a big but) there’s over 360 million people using LinkedIn and plenty of those… Read more →
Go wild and make your website background an image or video
I love “mounting” my websites on background images. It adds depth and used properly it can enhance the whole user experience or take a relatively simple site and make it appear so much better and of a much higher quality. So – I typically find a rights free image – one of my own photos or buy a nice high… Read more →
SEO Champion of the World
Just a little bit of a rant and a sprinkling of common sense maybe. Every industry needs a champion and in the world of SEO is no exception. But what makes someone a champion of any given industry. Is it the proactive person who profits little but aims to change the perception of the industry to the outside world? Or is it… Read more →
Im a bad SEO
Yep I admit it – I am a bad SEO. There, its out there. Pretty weird thing to say isnt it? On a site that offers the very same service! So let me clarify. I have been a bad SEO because I have been neglecting my own site for about a year now due to commitments to clients – where… Read more →
An irishmans ramblings about facebook – in song of course!
A short tale about Facebook, in the form of an irish song, about the dangers of making assumptions on who you may meet on there. Nicely done. Read more →
Will Google plus KILL Facebook and will it crash and burn in terrible flames like Myspace and be sold for 50 cents?
In a bar, meeting strangers, chatting with the guy next to you. What could be more normal than that. It aint normal if your names Mark Zuckerberg and you meet Tom, from MySpace… He has a small chip on his shoulder, about some friends of his. After all, he invented the “friends”. (love that line) Mark gets to thinking about… Read more →
A little song about Google plus
Just a little tune I found about google plus that kinda made me smile. Read more →
Drop the SOPA or get screwed
Its been a while since I blogged. Life has been hectic with family, work and all the important things that need or require my time (like sleeping). But its time I wrote something about this. I was messing with a new WordPress site today and found a link on the WordPress forums to this page about SOPA/PIPA and how it… Read more →
Permanent Bookmark Tabs in Google Chrome Browser
In chrome, when on a webpage or site you use regularly, right-click on the tab at the top and choose “PIN TAB”. Do this for all the sites you want so you have 6 or 8 tabs. These are NOT permanent and will disappear when you close the browser. To prevent that and make them permanent. Follow these instructions. Go… Read more →
A reminder of basic SEO from Search Engine Land and Common Craft
A really basic introduction to SEO from Search Engine Land and Common Craft but actually, in my opinion, it covers all the necessary things that SHOULD be covered in any SEO effort, allowing you to focus on the important things within your business. It is worth the watching as a basic refresher. It covers 5 things: Words in page Titles Links… Read more →