by Terry McCusker | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
BREXIT is a sideshow. The real challenge we, and our children, will face in the future is how to cope with a changing climate. Despite what many prominent deniers (ala Trump) say our climate is changing and the consequences for the world will be profound. Given the...
by Craig Griffiths | Apr 29, 2019 | Search Engine Optimisation
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: SEO doesn’t have to be complicated. One of the things I notice as a digital marketer is that people are always looking for the “secret sauce”. But truth be told: There isn’t any secret to SEO. If you want to increase your...
by Terry McCusker | Apr 9, 2019 | Digital Marketing Strategy
We love eCommerce clients, especially if their products are a little interesting, or niche. We like working on niche product propositions for a number of reasons, firstly we get to learn loads of new stuff (every day is a school day here at SearchUp Towers) and...
by Terry McCusker | Mar 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
At the start of web 2.0 (remember that?) back in say, 2007, people would link out to each others websites and not really think about what impact this would have on how other people’s sites ranked. Fast forward 12 years and the landscape has changed immeasurably....
by Terry McCusker | Mar 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
UX, or User Experience, has become quite a hackneyed phrase in the digital industry. In a nutshell, the UX designer, seeks to solve a problem in a way the user isn’t even aware of. In digital this, typically, is get a user to ‘convert’. This...
by Craig Griffiths | Jan 28, 2019 | Link Building
Link building for eCommerce sites is harder now than it ever has been. Why? First, digital marketers know they’re pretty much the number 1 ranking factor in competitive markets. Second, the war (scaremongering) on link building by Google over the past few years...
by Terry McCusker | Jan 9, 2019 | Content Marketing, Digital Marketing Strategy
You might be bored / worried / sick of the ‘B’ word…yes BREXIT, but we happened upon something on Twitter the other day which made us sit up and take notice. Not because we wanted to rant at a politician but because the narrative of the thread we...
by Terry McCusker | Nov 28, 2018 | Digital Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing
Not all social media activity is created equally. We once dealt with an eCommerce client; were badly advised by a marketing manager and ended up buying ‘likes’ on Facebook, the results were predictable. Not all interactions on social media are going to...
by Terry McCusker | Nov 23, 2018 | Digital Marketing Strategy, Social Media Marketing
Here at SearchUp, we don’t really ‘do’ social media marketing in the none paid for sense, i.e. buying advertising, but we know that a lot of our clients use social as part of their comms strategy for lead generation, social selling or a subset of...
by Terry McCusker | Nov 2, 2018 | Digital Marketing Strategy, Mobile Marketing
Mobile as a digital channel has evolved a lot in the last few years. Mobile used to be a standalone channel, mobile is now the predominant channel; mobile is now digital. Indeed, eMarketer has predicted that mobile advertising will outstrip spending on all other...
