Posts by Chris Soames
Chris Soames is a Smart Insights blogger and consultant, he has worked in digital marketing for over 6 years with the last few years managing international web strategies for a leading travel brand. Now the Commercial Director at First 10, an Integrated marketing agency, he helps clients get clarity on their marketing strategy and create campaigns engineered to engage with their consumers to help drive sell-through. Most of all, Chris enjoys working with talented people who want to create great (& commercial) things not just tick boxes.
Introduction Following on from my two previous posts on link building techniques I want to take the time to look at the use of article marketing as a tool to help generate inbound links. Article marketing is quite an intensive …..
Its always a popular time of reflection at the start of a New Year & 2011 is undoubtedly no different for most of us. However, I want to look forwards & give some practical recommendations on how you can use …..
The start of a new year quite often means lots of reflection & sets in place new ideas / learnings for the year to come. 2011 is no different; its always difficult to remember where you were 12 months ago, …..
Using Blog content to generate links and shares My last two blog posts on this topic, an Introduction to link building & link building using forum marketing hopefully opened up new ideas for you and your business. This week I …..
Search Queries & Links to your website get updated! Value: [rating=4] Our commentary: With Christmas fast approaching and rumours of Google updates during Christmas, a distant memory its nice to receive some news that the free webmaster tool kit from …..
My blog post last week on link building techniques touched briefly on each of the techniques available. I going to focus on one technique this week – Forum Marketing. Before I get into using forum marketing, we have to have …..
Confirmation that social mentions are used by Google to rank sites Value: [rating=5] Our commentary: With Danny Sullivan’s interview with Google & Bing earlier this month & the follow-up by SEOMOZ it would appear its now almost official that social media & …..
With Nov 2010 change, Google Places now an even bigger opportunity for clicks & mortar businesses Importance: [rating=5] (if you have a physical location!) Our commentary: Google Places has evolved as with most Google products quite significantly in the last …..
The top 10 link-building techniques Two of the most common questions I’m asked as a consultant is, “How do I get more links?” quickly followed by, “is there a quicker way of doing it?”. Quite often clients expect link building …..
Alert about new Google Webmaster Tools notification Value: [rating=5] Our commentary: The use of Adobe Flash has long been a debate between agencies & / or internal teams. On one hand you have the creative team who promise that they …..
