Crawl Your Site for Broken Links, Errors and Duplicate Content

One very overlooked part of the entire SEO mix is making sure that your site does not have broken outbound (or internal) links which either link to error pages, or do not work at all. Furthermore, if your site delivers error pages or links to non-existent pages or files on your server, then search engines [...]

Keywords and Content

These things are perhaps more important to the Small Business than even the larger enterprises. Where the big boys tend to already have that brand recognition, people will search specifically for their sites, but for the small business, SEO tactics are ever so important for getting found.
SEO Copywriting
When it comes to copywriting for SEO purposes, [...]

7 Questions to Ask When Planning a Website Redesign

As a site owner or Webmaster, at one time or another you will consider redesigning your website. Maybe it’s because you are bored, maybe it’s because your site is old and out of date, maybe it’s because users are having difficulty finding what they are looking for on your website. Whatever the reason is, at [...]

Wake Up Call – People Use the Internet to Shop

Results from a survey conducted by Cambridge-based Internet design and marketing company, Netflare revealed some startling statistics about small businesses and eCommerce.
Stats like:
- 23% of sites hadn’t been updated since their launch leading to inaccurate and obsolete content
- Only 8% even had an eCommerce element to their site
- 25% had no way of tracking online [...]

Google PageRank Update

Not really a post today more of a question.
Has anyone else noticed a PageRank update?
Some of my sites have seen an increase, with on going from PR 0 to PR 5! This I belive has been down to redirecting older established sites, that are no longer needed, to the new domain – which had [...]

Ten Top Tips to Move You Up Those Search Rankings

The first five tips are for natural or organic search and the next five are for PPC – Pay Per Click search and are ideal for SME’s.
Natural or organic search
1. Get links from third party sites.
There are two good reasons to do this: First, they generate traffic to your site in their own right. For [...]

SEW Live – Marketers: Digg Is Done, YouTube Won

Marketers should think twice before focusing on Digg.com to produce traffic. Search Engine Guide Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Laycock began her presentation at the Search Engine Strategies SEW Live one-day event in Columbus, OH, with that theme in mind. 
Though social networks and social marketing have become the hottest topic in online business these days, Laycock advises that [...]

Feel inspired with our latest entrepreneur biographies

Who inspires you? Having a good role model can give you inspiration and direction. Knowing that someone has been in a similar situation and succeeded can give you the drive to get the job done. That is why I created an entrepreneur biography section to Fresh Thinking Business. Whenever I come across someone who has [...]

Find out how search engine friendly you website really is

Are you looking to increase the ranking of your web site so that more potential customers can find you? Do you know how search engine friendly your website is? Struggling to get any visibility within search engines? 
Before you spend thousands on a SEO program try the Fresh Thinking Business SEO site audit on your web site and find out [...]

Management For The Rest Of Us

I recently found a useful website on business management which has lots of handy management articles that didn’t involve me needing to take a course first! These covered a range of topics from stress management, to team building, to time management.
There is even a handy ‘who’s who’ of management gurus so you can impress your [...]