Round 7 has been the toughest yet for the Graphitas dieters. With initial weigh-in taking place on the last working day before Christmas, the indulgence of the festive period reaped havoc with the slimmers with everyone returning back to work in the New Year with weight gain. Renewed vigour With the additional poundage came additional…
The Google analytics interface has gained a new look through an exciting facelift. This new minimal and very flat look, drops the signature orange in favour of monotone greys and flat icons. This now pulls the styling in line with Googles other apps. This new look features a new collapsable sidebar. Unfortunately no signs of…
Graphitas MD, Justin Taylor, recently featured in digital marketing e-book 50 Shades of Digital Marketing. The e-book is available free of charge from bookboon.com and features commentary from 50 digital leaders with their thoughts and observations surrounding various topics in the field of Digital Marketing. Justin’s article entitled “The Power of Seduction” shares his insights on…
Apple beta devices around the world have been receiving the error “Activation Required”. Apple has placed an expiry date on their beta versions, this forces users who are still running betas of iOS 7 to update to the current version. The Solution* Currently the only way to get around this is to plug your device…
When logging into google analytics we are being presented with a new set of segment filters (segment builder), These are available from the Audience Overview, Traffic Sources and content pages, etc. These have been previously talked about as coming soon, and are now rolling out to users accounts. This allows you to easily drag…
I recently made my first journey to Seattle to attend MozCon. Being a first timer at the conference, I was thrilled at the opportunity it provided to learn more about SEO and I have to say, it certainly didn’t fail to impress. In fact, it was amazing. Apart from all the information, knowledge and education…
Ever felt like you wanted to do something different… Something challenging? Well that was me a few weeks ago. Trouble was, I didn’t know what. I needed inspiration! If ever the power of TV advertising was in doubt, it was after a chance viewing of the ‘Race for Life’ ad that it all clicked into…
I recently gave a talk to around 1000 content marketers at this years Content Marketing Show on putting the content into conversion. Through this and a series of blog posts I will cover the topics and techniques covered within the presentation. As content creators, post penguin and panda, we have had things pretty easy. Companies…
Google analytics have rolled out a new update to its analytics adding real-time conversions tracking and a new segmentation UI. These features went live today at around 8pm UK time.
A newbies perspective on SEO Conference SearchLove, London 2012 Virgin is a word that I tend not to associate with many aspects of my life these days. I’d rather like to apportion it to the fact that I like to try my hand at different things. Learn new skills. Keep my knowledge current. And no, as…
Over the last couple of days, there have been plenty of great blog posts and reviews of BrightonSEO. I echo the sentiments of all bloggers, the quality of the event was incredible and put simply this FREE event rivals and often exceeds many of the paid events I have previously attended. This post, however, is…
Ok, maybe controversial, maybe harsh, but few would argue that those hit hardest from Google’s Penguin algorithm updates are sites which have been involved in substandard link building techniques. For those unaware, link building is the process of obtaining links to your website from other sites. Link building techniques take many forms, at the top…