http://blog.rakemark.com Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:27:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.rakemark.com/2011/11/podcasting-dead-or-alive/ http://blog.rakemark.com/2011/11/podcasting-dead-or-alive/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:27:09 +0000 Sarah Brassington http://blog.rakemark.com/?p=1418 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }

Podcasting: Dead or Alive? Podcasting is not something that comes up very often in a web design requirements meeting with a new client. Even though adding a podcast channel to a customers site is simple and inexpensive and making podcasts can be quick , fun and within the capabilities of a lot of website owners [...]

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Twitter, the Social Media Giants, have this week launched a brand new way for you to increase your own following with a new ‘Follow’ button for websites. If you’re logged into Twitter and you click the new button then you will automatically add the Twitter account to your follow list. Try It ! Follow @rakemark [...]

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According to a sales rep from Yell I was talking to last week, you are “53 times more likely to be on the Google front page with a video than without”. And that is why you should commit additional money (about £1000 and £100 per year thereafter) to your Business Information Page (BIP) on the [...]

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I see the four pillars of online marketing as Email Marketing, Google Adwords, Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Marketing but the foundation these pillars sit is your website. Others make the argument that in the digital age your website is the foundation to your whole business. As with your house, if the foundations of your [...]

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Due to questions that we have recently had from a few of our newer clients we thought a super quick article about what an RSS feed is (for those who don’t already know), what a RSS reader is and how having an RSS link on either your website or your blog will benefit your user [...]

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Blogging websites have been around for some time now but how many hang around and go on to be a successful information portals and how many wither at the road side limping from one article to the next? If you’re a social blogger then anything goes really, the website is yours and besides offensive content [...]

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Just recently I have had a couple of questions regarding website stats. Using the same principle as always, for every user question asked there must be 5 users with the same question that haven’t asked it yet so thought it would be good as a blog post: While this article will concentrate on the web [...]

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Everyone wants to think that their marketing or website survey will get “Top Results”, be a huge success and gather the best results ever – but are we getting the basics right to even stand a chance in the large scheme of things. Before you start writing your survey questions, consider this: Is a survey, [...]

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We had a question emailed to us from a client recently on the subject of Social Media Marketing and how to setup, run and create a survey or poll using the Social Media Giant Facebook Polling Application. With the overall aim to ‘home in’ on a specific range of their website users. So thought I [...]

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Ok so we all know about online marketing, SEO, SEF, keywords, Meta data and numerous other acronyms that if you are anything like me drive me totally insane, but are we (that being the royal we) taking full advantage of the tools and platforms that we have readily available to us already. Long gone are [...]

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