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Digital Marketing

Getting on the map with local SEO

Local SEO is a very effective way to market your business online, placing your products and services in front of people ready to make a purchase.

2nd April, 2019

Digital Marketing

Climb higher than number one with a Position Zero ranking

Position Zero SEO is one of the most important techniques in search engine optimisation at the moment, and it’s something we’ve gained quite a rep ...

21st March, 2019

Our News

We’re Celebrating 20 Years of Digital

As a Hale-based digital marketing agency we've started our 20th anniversary year in 2018 with four new recruits and two more to come - and a budding r ...

11th April, 2018

Digital Marketing

Instagram launches new in-app shopping feature

What is the new feature? The social giant Instagram has launched a new in-app shopping feature. The feature provides the opportunity for brands to ...

4th April, 2018

Digital Marketing

Digital Marketing Trends for 2018

...But first, a big WELCOME to Jamie, the newest member of the First Internet family! Here's his first (of many) blogs, great to have you on board, ta ...

10th December, 2017

Development, Our News

Cyber-attacks strike again… But what can you do about it?

Last month, our developer Joe wrote about the ‘WannaCry’ attack, which caused a crisis in the National Health Service hospitals and some of Europe ...

30th June, 2017

Development, Our News

WannaCry? The NHS certainly did.

WannaCry, a new strain of ransomware, spread this month in one of the world's biggest cyber-attacks, causing a crisis in NHS hospitals.

17th May, 2017

Development

Google Announces Invisible reCAPTCHA, Marking End of an Era for (Human) Users

If you were born prior to the turn of the millennium, you most likely associate the word “CAPTCHA” with an instant feeling of irritation and a squ ...

12th April, 2017

Digital Marketing

Alternatives to Google Search Console Content Keywords

Some of the leading webmaster and SEO blogs were rocked in recent days by the news that the Google Search Console Content Keywords report has official ...

2nd December, 2016

Digital Marketing

What is the outlook for online marketing on Black Friday?

Black Friday - the fourth Friday in November - comes the day after the US holiday of Thanksgiving and traditionally marks a surge in high street Chris ...

23rd November, 2016

Digital Marketing

3 alternatives to Vine as Twitter kills its micro-video app

Twitter users were taken by surprise in recent days with the news that Twitter's Vine micro-video app is being 'shuttered' - a polite way of saying ki ...

7th November, 2016

Digital Marketing

Internet passes 50% mark to be majority of UK advertising

Internet advertising has reached a major milestone, passing the 50% mark of all UK advertising by value to become the single majority method used in B ...

21st October, 2016