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Month: June, 2008

Keywords just aren’t that important anymore.

24 June, 2008 (22:16) | Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Tips | No comments

Matt Cutts,  Google’s most famous search engineer confirmed today that, in terms of web site rankings, the meta keywords tag is dead.
The reason for this is pretty obvious: people can stuff keywords in their website’s keywords tag that has absolutely no relevance to the visible page contents in order to deceive the search engines.  This [...]

Your Marketing Sucks - Session 2

9 June, 2008 (01:19) | Marketing, Tips | No comments

Note: In this article I am reacting to the book by Mark Stevens called “Your Marketing Sucks“
1. The importance of a value proposition
Before marketing your business, you MUST figure out what it is about your business that makes you genuinely different from your competitors. This is called a value proposition. Your value proposition [...]

Your Marketing Sucks - Session 1

8 June, 2008 (00:22) | Marketing | No comments

Having just finished my I.T. Masters degree I decided that I should continue learning on a weekly basis. Learning keeps me energised and focused.
After 8 years of full time programming, I’m pretty confident in my ability to code to a high standard and engineer solid databases, and Libby can design beautiful graphics and layout [...]