As the new government takes its place, the BBC reports, there is a frenetic dash to update the official Whitehall website. Any owner of a website will be well aware of how even the most innocuous-seeming content can date. Did it seem like such a...
We mostly work with small businesses, and we mostly help them to optimize their sites for the major search engines, so we thought we'd share a link that many of you should find extremely useful. Google keep a number of different blogs, each...
Strong words from Barack Obama this week: With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations – none of which I know how to work – information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the...
'Keep a vibrant social media profile' is now common advice to small businesses, and we at Notting Hill Biz repeat it as often as everyone else. But when you find that you're spending half the day posting on Facebook, updating Twitter, putting...
This is an old, and wise, Arabic saying. But do we like change? Facebook recently underwent an overhaul, bringing about a torrent of dismay from many of its users. An online group was started - Petition Against the "New Facebook" - which to date...
It is 10 years since a small business was formed, run from a bedroom in W11, and Notting Hill Biz was born. Our founder named the company after the location where he lived and worked. The area has been good to us and now we are in a position...
Their headline reads "Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink" I was very surprised to find out that The Guardian newspaper is switching to Twitter. As an SEO consultant and a professional Internet user, we suggest to our clients to use...
Today marks the passing of the first quarter of the year - a year that is proving difficult for all businesses. No one can afford to sit back, expecting their online business to simply perform for them. So when was the last time you looked hard at...
So what can managed Internet marketing do for your business? The White paper will explain the complete Managed SEO concept, something that is much needed in the industry. This Whitepaper will benefit you if: you run a business website but suspect...
One of the new tools we have implemented, as part of our complete managed internet service, is a free SEO report, which is available to everyone. No such thing as a free lunch? Or is it simply a case of if it is free, it can't be of much use? In...
Well, we have been busy with a complete Spring clean and spruce up. Out with the old and in with the new! So what have we been doing? New website - new design New staff - new training New documentation - new information New tools and features Now...
Our long awaited and much anticipated "Managed SEO White Paper" will arrive next week! The White Paper will explain the complete Managed SEO concept, something that is much needed in the industry. Watch this space!
RIP Meta Tags 2005 A fond farewell To a dear friend (of Black Hat SEO)[I had better quickly said that Title Tags are incredibly important to search engines and therefore absolutely vital to SEO. But technically Title Tags are not Meta Tags so I...
From Romanticisation to Artificial Intelligence In 2008, I first explored the relationship between search-and-rank, romanticisation and emotional intelligence. At the time, it was ahead of its day, as emotion played a significant role in shaping...
You are online, you are surfing the world wide web looking for a good SEO company to boost your online business presence - and there are hundreds of SEO companies all shouting to get your attention. Company ABC SEO Ltd is offering: Guaranteed Low...
It wasn’t such a long time ago that the practice of medicine was a secretive art. The doctor was referred to as the holder of all knowledge, and the patient certainly wouldn’t question his diagnosis. That all changed with the emergence of the...