Monthly Archives: September 2014

How to migrate your website without killing off your traffic

The website migration is one of the most overlooked hurdles that will leave businesses struggling to survive to reach their business goals for the year. I have never heard of a sales director ever predict a drop in revenue because they were migrating to a new web platform, yet I’ve lost count of the times […]

Google’s Pigeon Update: What it means at the local level

SMX Theatre Presentation by Scott Ensign It’s been just over two months since Google quietly rolled out the locally-focused Pigeon update. At DAC, we’ve been watching this like a hawk (pun intended), as local search marketing is a critical part of what we do. With millions of locally-focused landing pages engineered for SEO and tens […]

Hotel Chocolat – Happy 10th Birthday

Congratulations to our good friends at Hotel Chocolat as we celebrate the opening of their 1st store in Watford 10 years ago. As stores have popped up all over the UK, the product offering has also expanded to relaxing coffee shops, a restaurant, a luxury hotel in St Lucia, the Rejuvenate skin care range and the […]

Google release another Panda update

Google have released another Panda update. Panda is the search filter that identifies pages with ‘thin’ content from being ranked well in search engine results. This is the 27th Panda update; many websites have been affected by these updates over the years, each time webmasters have been asked to add additional, better quality unique content […]

It’s Not Easy Being Green – Job Search Tips for New Grads

We’ve all been there. Certified, bright, enthusiastic and…GREEN.  We know, it’s not easy but, being green also means you’re well on your way to becoming what you want to be. DAC will be working the campus circuit over the next two weeks. We’ll be in New York at Columbia University September 19 and in Waterloo […]

How to migrate your website without killing off your traffic

The website migration is one of the most overlooked hurdles that will leave businesses struggling to survive to reach their business goals for the year. I have never heard of a sales director ever predict a drop in revenue because they were migrating to a new web platform, yet I’ve lost count of the times […]

Four takeaways from the BrightEdge Share14 Conference

    Share14 was high on my list of 2014 conferences not to miss, and it delivered. The impressive speaker line-up included SEO professionals from large enterprise organisations such as BING, Google, M3 and Marriott International sharing insider tips and tactics that we can use to help clients at our own agency. The overall focus […]

The End of Google’s PPC ‘Exact Match’

What changes regarding Google’s match types: Up to now advertisers could opt out from close variations in phrase and exact match but soon this option will be history. From late September onwards Google plan to implement close variant keyword matching to all exact and phrase match keywords. For some this might not be great news […]