6 Simple Tips for Effective Landing Page Design
6 Simple Tips for Effective Landing Page Design At Lilac James we are marketers who specialise in SEO, Google Ads & Social Media Marketing, but regardless of how good we are and how much highly relevant and qualified traffic we drive to a webpage, customers will always bounce if they’re landing on a poorly designed page. […]
Why are my Google Reviews disappearing?
Business owners and marketing professionals appreciate the value of online reviews. Various studies state that on average 85% of internet users check online reviews before making a purchase of goods or services making reviews highly important for your digital strategy. Consider the below search result: I’ve conducted a simple Google search of ‘window cleaner near […]
Which is better, SEO or Social Media Marketing?
As an agency that specialises in both, we’re often asked this question by clients looking to increase their reach by improving their marketing. The reality is for most businesses, you need to be doing both, but utilising them in different ways. SEO is a fantastic way of capturing pre existing demand for your products and […]
Are you ready? – The ‘Helpful Content’ Google Algorithm Update is here!
Are you ready for the ‘Helpful Content’ update? Once again Google have released details of its latest search algorithm update, this one is called ‘The Helpful Content Update’. Google said this update will “tackle content that seems to have been primarily created for ranking well in search engines”. In other words, this update is building […]
Red Flags 🚩 the person doing your SEO doesn’t know what they’re doing…
I’m writing this article because there are so many cowboys out there happily taking peoples money and delivering little value in return. There are also many great SEO professionals but sorting between the good, the bad and the ugly can be difficult. I hope this article can help people navigate the minefield of picking the […]
Things to consider before before you start an SEO project
With SEO, people talk about optimising, targeting keywords, building backlinks, metadata, alt tags, technical SEO, content, data blah blah blah… …but what isn’t often talked about is how none of this will make a damn bit of difference unless you get the foundations right with your website. This blog will explain how you do that. […]
8 ways blogging helps boost your SEO
8 Ways Blogging Helps Boost Your SEO We were presenting at a business event recently about SEO to Cambridge Network and we were asked how exactly blogging helps with your SEO, so I thought we’d write a blog about it 😊 Blogging has been established to be a key form of building your SEO rankings […]
How quickly can you get on page 1 of Google?
There are lots of scammy SEO artists out there who will tell you exactly what you want to hear… that getting to page 1, position 1 for competitive search terms is easy and can be achieved within the month. If you hear that, our friends at Iron Maiden have some great advice… RUN TO THE […]
How to measure SEO ROI
Measuring your SEO’s return on investment (ROI) is an excellent method of verifying the impact of your SEO. At Lilac James, we have many companies that seek our services to help improve their search rankings, digital profile, leads and sales. Helping them see a return on their investment and added value is very important to […]
How to create a positive review strategy for your business
In 2011 Google conducted a significant deep dive into its data and came out with a key finding that many business owners are unfortunately unaware of to this day. These findings were titled ZMOT, or Zero Moment of Truth. Google identified that the modern consumer goes through predictable behaviour patterns before they will make a […]