Working with a digital agency can make a huge difference to any business, from opening up new channels to reach potential customers to drastically decreasing the cost per acquisition online. However, it is important to properly manage your relationship to ensure that you get the most out of your agency...
Until very recently, the majority of SEO efforts were focused on ranking on page 1 and in position 1 for chosen key terms, usually based around your products, services, and service location. Two years ago, Google introduced Featured Snippets, which are slowly changing how people use Google and therefore changing...
It’s that time of year where the Internet becomes increasingly buried in reflections of the past year and forecasts of what lies in the year ahead, particularly for digital marketing and the technology industry. Not only has demand from consumers increased but market conditions have become more unpredictable than ever,...
Saying that it’s been an eventful year is a bit of an understatement. Tiger populations and referendums aside, 2016 has definitely been one of busiest years ever with more sites going live, more SEO being booked, and more seminars delivered than ever before. Here’s a quick overview of what we’ve...
A new website can give your business a boost, especially when it is properly planned, well-written, and has sound SEO foundations. Concentrating on good content and user experience can provide a huge improvement in both rankings and conversions, but relying on the new site alone isn’t enough for sustained growth...
A year on from the launch of AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), Google have announced a global rollout in mobile search results. Now that there are over 600 million AMP-enabled pages online from top publishers such as Washington Post, Slate, Gizmodo, Wired, Pinterest, eBay, and Reddit, Google are moving to the next...
If you’re working to improve your rankings on Google, it’s essential that you offer a good user experience. This week Google announced that sites need to make content easily accessible to mobile users if they want to rank. This means that sites using popups that cover the main content, interstitial ads,...
Businesses can’t ignore social media – the vast majority of consumers check out companies on social networking sites before buying, and a huge 93% of consumers want companies to have a social media presence. That’s probably why we have so many businesses, large and small, coming to us asking how...
Around a month ago, Google made drastic changes to the structure of their adverts in search results, and we can now see some of the effects of this change. Search Engine Land have reported that first page bids have increased by around 15% compared to this time last year, which...
One of the biggest pieces of digital marketing news this week is Google’s format change – namely, removing ads on the right-hand side of search results. This change also means that they’ve added one more ads to the top section of search results for high volume/competition search terms. So what...
Ideally, all site owners should spend some time every single month working on their SEO – adding fresh content to their website, working on their link profile, and optimising things like images so that they have the best possible foundation for their off-site optimisation. Unfortunately, a lot of businesses don’t...
The terms ‘Google’ and ‘Artificial Intelligence’ in the same sentence have worried Digital Marketers over the last few weeks. Fortunately for us, it looks like RankBrain is likely to help your rankings by improving semantic search, and grouping terms and ideas together to deliver even more relevant results to users....
Yet another year draws to a close and it’s time to look back at what we’ve been doing in 2015. It’s been an exciting year for all of us, with new projects and challenges as well as new team members to complete our group of digital ninjas. Here’s a short round...
Finding a good agency to build and maintain your website can be a stressful process, especially if you don’t have the technical expertise in-house to find out whether or not they’ll do exactly what you want. In our years of building, fixing, and maintaining a huge range of business websites,...
Lately quite a few of our clients are asking us if they should buy URLs that have keywords in them. Here’s what we have to say about keyword presence and search visibility. What’s Happening to My Precious Keywords? Google functionality is ever working to outsmart those who skimp on quality...
As consumers we can bemoan the Christmas decorations hitting shops mid-October, but as business owners we can’t wait until December to start preparing for Christmas. Did you know that a quarter of shoppers have already started buying gifts and decorations this month? By Cyber Monday (which falls on 30th November...
Winners in The Hertfordshire Digital Awards 2015 For Best School Website The Hertfordshire Digital Awards 2015 is a multi county scheme that rewards innovation and progressive thinking by businesses, events, individuals, charities and educational establishments. From small businesses to large national companies- the HDA Awards rewards companies who ‘use digital...
Innermedia is back in Uganda to provide a unique, once in a lifetime experience to children from the CoRSU Rehabilitation Hospital. We first met and worked with the CoRSU last year in a project called the School of Croc. It was introduced to us by our client and wildlife expert,...
Scoping is already a verb and 10 million users have signed up to the live-streaming app, so should you be using Periscope? Let’s start with a quick introduction to this year’s most exciting new platform: What is Periscope? Periscope is essentially a live TV station, run from people’s smartphones. It’s a...
Last week Google announced that users won’t need a Google Plus profile to use YouTube and other Google products. Bradley Horowitz said, “we made a few choices that, in hindsight, we’ve need to rethink” and explained that users will only need a Google Account to “share content, communicate with contacts, create...
We’re pleased to announce that we’re the finalists for the Herts Digital Awards in two categories. Our website for Southbank International School has been nominated for the best school, education, or charity website category and the best use of video for business category. The site went live earlier this year...
We’re already half way through 2015 and it’s been a busy 6 months; Google’s latest update encouraged a lot of old clients to upgrade their websites, and we’ve designed dozens more sites for schools and businesses throughout London and the UK. Here’s a quick look at some of our work...
Soon people will be able to buy your products online without going to your website. Google’s Chief Business Officer, Omid, Kordestani, announced that ‘there’s going to be a buy button. It’s going to be imminent’ at the Code Conference in California on Wednesday. The change will be rolled out on mobile...
Facebook is old enough to go to high school, Twitter is bigger than Brazil and Mexico combined, and – most importantly for you – 93% of consumers expect businesses to have a presence on social media. For a business today, not having a social media presence is the same as not...
Protein World has made marketing headlines with a brand strategy that has been aligned with every value from integrity to gross moral turpitude. It started with this. This ad just got them a bomb threat. Yes, a bikini-clad woman stood against a glaring yellow background and the slogan ‘ARE YOU BEACH BODY...
This is a question clients ask us all the time; will the resources used to maintain their social presence provide results in SEO too? The short answer is ‘it depends’ – it depends on the platform, how you use it, and what Google is going to do in the next...
Your business needs to be mobile. It needs to be mobile-friendly, mobile-optimised, and ready for mobile conversions – how many times have you heard that in the last few months (if not years)? Last year we passed the mobile tipping point, and the internet officially saw more traffic from mobile devices...
Personalisation marketing customises products, services and communications for potential consumers. This is done in a variety of intelligent ways from measuring need to fulfilling it via advertising, friendliness and the latest technology. Personalisation has always helped to fuel sales. Successful shopkeepers know to remember their customers’ names, welcome them back...
A great photographer has an eye for composition and can evoke warmth and a genuine expression in a subject. He or she will know how to position you in a variety of settings that will best reflect the goals and personality of your company. Instances that you would need a professional photo...
Google announced on its Webmaster Central Blog that mobile search is changing on April 21st, 2015. This is in response to the growing number of internet users now conducting searches on mobile devices. As Google warned in 2014, new algorithms are being introduced to accommodate this increase. What Effects Does...
Great content has always been at the heart of compelling messages; from landmark speeches and ground-breaking novels to the finest internet landing pages. Leaders like Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou and Winston Churchill knew how to engage audiences through language. The principles they used still apply in business today. So...
Linkbuilding is one of the most discussed aspects of SEO; whether it’s finding ways to get authoritative links to your site or discussing Google’s latest way of identifying spammy links, there are so many discussions that it’s easy to think that it’s the most important aspect of SEO. While it’s...
Conversions are essentially the reason why most business sites exist; while traffic and engagement metrics are important in understanding how people get to the site and travel through it, everything that we do when working on a site is geared towards getting those enquiries or sales. The Challenge and the...
Choosing the right social media channels can be a challenge for small businesses; the biggest mistake businesses make is setting up accounts on far too many different platforms and then leaving them dormant after the initial push. When it comes to social, an abandoned account is worse than none at...
Small businesses in the UK are involved in over £600bn in commercial transactions, but an estimated 50% don’t even have a website. Not having an online presence can severely stunt business growth, or even reverse if it your competitors are easier to find. Unfortunately, simply building a website isn’t enough...
More than ever, SEO needs to be ethical, intelligent, and robust. This article discusses SEO errors that are vital to avoid in 2015. The best reason to avoid SEO errors is the most obvious one: to prevent manual and algorithmic penalties. Google can take up to 9 months to...
What is a Manual Penalty? A Manual Penalty is when Google removes your site from search results (or pushes it way to the bottom) due to unnatural links. They wreak havoc with businesses, who see a sudden and significant drop in traffic as almost all of their organic visits disappear...
Getting traffic to your site is only half the battle – once you have their attention, you need to push your audience towards converting. Unfortunately, most businesses don’t improve this process and lost a huge amount through lost traffic and abandoned carts. A huge 68% of people abandon their shopping...
Here are six charities that Innermedia is especially fond of. We’ve enjoyed contributing to these causes and have had a number of rewards, including team-building, unique life experiences, and a connection to communities throughout the world. 1. Bridge of Hope Innermedia built a website for Bridge of Hope, a charity that...
29 Reasons Why You Need Content Marketing Content is arguably the most important part of your site – it’s why people come to your page, and if you don’t deliver what they expect they’ll just leave and find it elsewhere. Even if you rely on PPC and other lead generation...
