Recent content by SBurdett

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    One person/single director Ltd company - Pension Advice Pls

    Have been doing some more reading and yes, thanks, paying 100% as employer contributions seems to be the way to go as I can deduct that as a business expense for corp tax purposes. Currently I take a low salary and the majority of income as dividends so that will limit how much I can pay in but...
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    One person/single director Ltd company - Pension Advice Pls

    I am the sole director of my one person limited company and have received a letter from the pensions regulator confirming that I do not have to auto enrol myself in a pension scheme. However, I probably should start a pension so need some advice on whether to optionally enrol myself on a...
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    Becoming a freelance social media consultant.

    There is definitely a market for freelance social media consultants - if you are just starting out start working for smaller companies - they may not have big budgets but are more forgiving if you are still learning - and, let's face it, in the world of digital marketing it is one big learning...
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    Should I Change My Business Name?

    It's always a difficult one but if you are thinking in terms of your domain name then try and go for a name that doesn't prevent you easily expanding into others areas as the business grows eg what about just firstcall.co.uk (try buying it) - you can then call yourself First Call Property...
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    Is backlink still important for SEO?

    Mystro - you can't just count the links and be surprised that a site ranks well with only 179 backlinks - what are they, where are they from? They could be 179 top quality links from within relevant content on well-known sites - a competitor could have 10,000 links but they might be from...
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    Is bounce rate a ranking factor?

    If you are using Analytics then you can see the visits from Social sites and so, obviously, Google knows about them. Bounce rate, number of visitors, time on site, pages visited and all that good stuff in Analytics is used by Google as some of its many ranking factors based on what people can...