Here’s where you can get the details – Wine Tours, Wine Travel Guides.
(or just Google search for ‘private wine tours’)
We have discussed the virtues of blogging and social media in the context of online marketing before. This site is a great example of how to do it successfully.
An early adopter of Twitter, Blogging and Social [...]

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So, YouTube is now the number 2 search engine with an estimated 30% or all searches in the US taking place there.
Here in the UK internet users watch an average of 117.7 videos per month (that’s 161 million hours of video content per month! – according to ComScore – Video Metrix – Sept [...]

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WHAT OUR SERVICE INCLUDES
We will build you a blog integrated within your domain and in addition we’ll ensure your articles and blog posts are included in all the major social bookmarking sites and blog directories.

WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES?
In short, its a great way to increase your web site traffic AND improve your search engine rankings [...]

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What I hope to do in the post is provide you with a practical self contained strategy which will have a large impact on your website traffic and visitors.
Each of the items discussed here – blogs, links, social bookmarking – are very important items in themselves for increasing your website traffic, but used together in [...]

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Its a well known statistic that around 90% of clicks happen at the first page of Google (more for some keywords) and that around 3%-4% happen on page 2.
What that means is that by moving from page 2 to page 1, in broad terms, you will increase your visits twenty fold! – and in some [...]

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The virtues of successfully optimising for google base are well known to you. (Here’s a couple of striking examples Plumbnation and Copiersforsale).
One of the keys to ensuring you are optimised and stand a good chance of grabbing the top positions is firstly that you need a XML feed which you can resubmit regularly (lets say [...]

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Why bother optimising your images and photos? There are two good reasons – one is that ‘image search’ is growing rapidly (see the Hitwise graph below) and on Google is now the number one vertical search option second only to Google’s main search.

The other is that with Google Universal Search images will quite often [...]

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‘PR Sculpting’ is the tactic, and it involves using the ‘nofollow’ tag to hoard your link juice into specific pages and thereby increasing the rankings for that page.
How it worksAs most of you know the Google ‘Page Rank’ of a specific page is a major factor leading to the high rankings of a specific phrase [...]

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Here’s an example of a recent web project that delivered an extraordinary return on investment.
Again the return was down to the power of Google Base. You can see the search example below for ‘ricoh copiers’ (click to enlarge the image) and the little shopping bag icon indicating the snippet has come from G Base.

This ‘top [...]

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Ive discussed the issues of SEO and hosting before – in a nutshell where your site is hosted could have an impact on your search engine rankings. In particular if you have a .com (or .net, .biz etc) google will use your hosting location to determine where to give you rankings (eg – a [...]

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We have several customers who need specific help with their rankings on specific keywords. How can you help?
You are aware of the importance of quality links, in particular quality nowadays means links from sites which are authoritative themselves (lets say as measured by Google Page Rank of 3 and above); have some contextual relevance; and [...]

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So, last week I was running a course in the Lake District for hoteliers. It was one of those courses where I meet the same people several times over a few weeks. Each week I tell them about something, they go away and do it, then come back and report their success, or otherwise.
The topic [...]

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