Freelance Digital Marketing Consultant
Anyone who trades in stocks and shares will be familiar with the term “buy the dip”. It’s a trading strategy where an asset value falls, and investors buy at the lower rate in anticipation that it will increase again in the future. During times when there are temporary uncertainties and dips, this is a sound … Read more
As an independent, I’ve spent over 25 years immersed in digital marketing, working with everyone from local SMEs to national charities and global corporations. If you’re a local business owner weighing up whether to hire a marketing agency or go independent, here’s why working with a seasoned freelancer like myself can be the smarter, more … Read more
Several cryptocurrency ads have recently been banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) as the advertisers been found by the authority to have broken the rules. The crypto ads and crypto campaigns in question were mostly from cryptocurrency exchanges but also included two household names; eToro, normally known for its stocks and shares trading … Read more
I was at a meeting the other day when a marketing manager kept talking about “zero point marketing”. I’d never heard this term before so, intrigued, I Googled it. I couldn’t find any reference to it on Google. It was a bit like the old days when you used to get a “Googlewhack”, where there … Read more
In digital marketing circles I still see QR (Quick Response) and AR (Augmented Reality) receiving so much reverence and they’re still touted as on the edge of being “the next big thing”. Only this morning for instance there was a piece in the online industry publication The Drum. Their piece, titled How do you solve … Read more
As a digital marketer one of the things that really bothers me in 20 years of web design is this…
Last night at college someone showed me The Digital Marketing Map. I was impressed. The digital marketing landscape is a complex and sprawling beast and this was the first time I’d seen an attempt to tame and visualise the sector. And what better way than an infographic and a London Underground/tube map to boot!
Also, this is a digital marketing roadmap and a mind map too, so the digital landscape has been clearly and logically laid out and all the connections made…
So I went back to college in 2017.
Why? Because I wanted to “firm up” on a subject.
And that subject is? Marketing.
There’s been a lot of buzz recently about the big AdWords shakeup.
The news has been reported in SearchEngineLand and now Moz.
And what exactly has happened? Well, in the biggest change in years, Google has finally removed the AdWords ads in the SERPs from the right hand side of the desktop. To make up for the reduction in sidebar ads, there are now four ads at the top of the page.
As if there’s not enough to do, racing around and tweaking your websites’ code to pander to Google’s needs, there’s now the AMP Project from Big G.
Announced yesterday on the official Google blog, AMP is the Accelerated Mobile Pages project. The aim of the AMP project is to improve delivery of content on mobile devices. The basis of the latest crusade is that publishers use open-source AMP-HTML to markup their content and this speeds up delivery, hopefully by instantaneously downloading content to mobile devices. Behind this all appears to be some sort of Content Distribution Network (CDN) that Google say can be used at no cost.