Recent content by stuartmcminigal

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    Should I punish a Naughty SEO company??

    I'd give them a stern warning as well as a good old threat. If it's been 2 years they have been doing this sort of thing that is mad. Not that you want to be checking up on them but they are really cheating their clients and potential clients out of money as they may not even be a legitimate...
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    Most used Social Media Platform for business?

    Agreed. Far too general. Or best Best Social Media platform social E-Commerce Business? - This wouldn't be LinkedIn
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    new website hit a brick wall with SEO

    There are plenty of good blogs out there where you can get SEO help and guides for free. If you can, you could always hire a professional to come on board part time or temporary to fine tune your site and teach you the ropes and pass it over to you.
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    How do I increase the visibility of a blog?

    Your ultimate goal is to get found from the content you write on your blog. This might not happen straight away (it could, but it's unlikely). If you have no budget in which to promote articles your best bet would be to go for social media -linkedin groups/facebook groups/twitter, niche specific...
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    Most used Social Media Platform for business?

    For business marketing I have gone with LinkedIn, but close second would have been Facebook. Surprised there is nobody for facebook.
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    Running business from home - 'increase in traffic'?

    Do you not speak to this neighbour? Why not next time you see him with a camera, chap on his door and see what's up. Explain your side of what is going on as he may just be a suspicious older gentleman with concerns and if you put him at ease he may stop.
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    General

    Yep, simple as andrewflower12 says - the Google spider will follow (dofollow) the link whereas nofollow links will not be followed and in turn have no real benefit in terms of SEO to your site. Dofollow helps your PR also and NoFollow links do not.
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    How to promote Google+ Business Page?

    There is a few Google Plus directories out there where you can add your page and find similar pages related to your niche and business. I've used this one before to find related businesses and people interested in what my clients had to offer - findpeopleonplus com
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    Is there any tool to check PPC budget and keywords

    Just use Google Adwords - I've never had an issue with it and its free as well as works for Google who I guess is your main focus of your SEO strategy.
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    Marketing Oneself

    Not trying to promote myself but the link in my sig is what I use as a Digital Portfolio/Business Card. It is a work in progress as I have just relaunched it over a week ago after falling into freelance after working for 5 years in an agency. I will be blogging, spending time in forums, job...
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    Backlink source game changer ?

    I moved away from SEO Spyglass because I found it to time consuming and there was better alternatives. I'll have to pop back over and try out the backlink db - that's why I moved away but I am paying quite a bit elsewhere but still have the license of SEo spyglass and its other tools. P.S I'm...
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    can you really run an ecommerce for £20 pcm

    It can be done, but there are a lot of extra fees involved - unless you are making some good money of course. You don't want to be paying the 20/25 pound a month for a hosted option to then pay above and beyond for an SEO expert or package to boost rankings because after all they are 20/25 to...
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    Marketing new website?

    Without a budget to purchase some ads - SEO and Social Media are the way to go, it just takes that little extra work. Starting SEO and Social media as soon as the site launches are great, if you could have began beforehand and created a little buzz etc that would be even better. I'd suggest...
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    Starting up a clothing brand

    I use thewholesaleforums.co.uk if I'm looking for some good advice on when it comes to identifying suppliers and getting a suppliers review before using them. More than likely someone over there will know and be able to be a good judge of character for many suppliers that you require.
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    What should be the cost of website ?

    Then once you have the website - what about the content? Will you be doing that yourself in terms of uploading all of it or even generating it yourself cause that can be very time consuming or even money sapping. For a website to get that much traffic it would need to have a lot of content...