In the last week or so, some of my faith that Facebook can be a force for good has been restored by becoming a member of a group called the ALL IS LOVE: AF GANG. It’s a community of fans of the punk rock band Idles, and as the name suggests, the group is largely […]

Posted by John Murray

For a long time, SEO companies like ourselves have considered Google, Bing and Yahoo! to be the ‘Big Three’ search engines to monitor. Of course, it’s really more a case of the ‘Big One’, with NetMarketShare.com statistics showing Google to be responsible for 78.05% of the search engine market share, but if we are to […]

Posted by John Murray

With last week’s highly concerning UN report urging that we have a little over a decade to prevent climate change chaos, ordinary people will no doubt be considering once more what they can do to play their part. It seems like Western governments are not really taking a lead. Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the […]

Posted by John Murray

At a recent networking event, I gave a talk about discovering ‘why’ people do what they do with regards to business. This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about over the

Posted by Darren Jamieson

I love a good bit of satire. Whether it’s old episodes of Spitting Image, Aristophanes’ ‘The Frogs’ or a bit of the Daily Mash – nothing beats good satire. The problem is, does satire remain as satire when too many people believe it? For instance, the spoof news website BFN was originally set up with […]

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Before I start this post, I must first apologise for the vitriol that is about to spew forth. John, our Content Team Leader, will have attempted to edit much of the hatred and anger from this but, if he’s caught all of it, the word count won’t be sufficient for a blog and you won’t […]

Posted by Darren Jamieson

In what may be either a trial or a rollout of a new feature, Google has started displaying more content from within sites in its results page. The move appears to have been spotted by SEMRush, whose tweet on the subject prompted Search Engine Land to write an article about the latest shake-up to the […]

Posted by John Murray

Google has confirmed that its social media arm Google+ is to be put to rest, at least for consumers, with August 2019 slated as the time by which it will be sent to the digital graveyard. Confirmation that the ailing social media was now in its death rattle stage came in a blog post yesterday. […]

Posted by John Murray

Two years ago we produced our first ‘brew cards’ infographic, to help explain the complex rules we have here at Engage Web for brew making in the office. Over time our rules have evolved and grown, partly to make the selection process more exciting and partly to counter for the rule-bending shown by our project […]

Posted by Darren Jamieson

In a world saturated with adverts, stories and statistics, and with the internet only a mere click away, there is a real danger of consumers being overloaded – trawling through so much information can be monotonous. A well-designed infographic, however, can set companies apart from their competitors and should also enhance brand awareness. So many […]

Posted by John Murray

As a result of the many different ways people can engage with your website we decided to produce this (slightly disturbing) infographic showing how your website can stimulate the ‘share cortex’ of the brain. Social media is such an important part of Internet marketing these days you need to take advantage of it to make […]

Posted by Darren Jamieson