UK Tights, Building A Brand With A People Friendly Site

By May.09, 2014

Our Origins The team at UK Tights has been concentrating on SEO since the first day we launched our site. Since then, we’ve run into obstacles and plenty of road blocks, but we’ve learned how to navigate these and make a success out of our website. SEO is always going to be a difficult thing […]

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UK Swimwear, Putting SEO Quality First

By May.09, 2014

How We Started Out UK Swimwear was started just over five years ago as a website for browsing, shopping and choosing all your items of beachwear and swimwear. Founded by the team at UK Tights, UK Swimwear was launched as a supplement to our summer business. UK Tights sees their busiest periods around Christmas, so […]

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“Inside Rolls-Royce” on Channel 4

By May.08, 2014

“Take the best that exists and make it better”  These were the words of Sir Henry Royce, one half of the Rolls-Royce auto-mobile empire. “Inside Rolls-Royce” is a new documentary on Channel Four which examines what goes on behind the scenes of this exclusive company. It reminds me of a quote from my former head […]

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A New Beginning

By May.08, 2014

To be honest I was not the biggest fan of social media, I really only used it when I had to at work, but being made redundant after more than 20 years with the same company made me really consider what I wanted to do and how I was going to do it. After going […]

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Social Media – it’s great to be sociable !

By May.08, 2014

    Where do you turn when your business slows down or reaches a point where it stops growing? Well that is the question I asked myself, working on an organic vineyard in the beautiful south west of France and a in a wine shop in Hale, a few months ago. Well grab a glass […]

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Social Media and SMEs – It’s not so scary!

By May.07, 2014

Working on a business assistance project for small and medium enterprises we hear time and time again from businesses that they know they need to be using social media but “I’m too old for all that”, “there are so many different sites I don’t know which ones are right for me” or “I’ve given it a […]

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Using social media to advertise boring products.

By May.07, 2014

Cones as you may have realised aren’t interesting, they’re not funny, sexy, or appealing in any way, how then do you market one to the general public? As a manufacturer of traffic management products we’re not exactly on trend, or in high demand. Basically cones are boring, and as a business to business company we didn’t […]

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Getting found locally – ‘SEO’ or ‘PPC’?

By May.07, 2014

TECHNIQUES ON GETTING FOUND LOCALLY FOR VARIOUS GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS We’ve all heard the line ‘To Be or Not To Be’ from Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet. The line outline’s the dilemma of Hamlet, as to whether to commit suicide or not. He had to decide whether to continue to live in a world that gave him […]

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Is your website mobile device friendly?

By Apr.24, 2014

Already being in the digital marketing industry, last year I attended Salford University to study on the SEO & Social Media Marketing course to brush up and improve on my digital marketing skills. Responsive Websites & SEO The Mobile Web The online marketing landscape is rapidly changing and moving towards the mobile web, traditional methods […]

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Secret Book Art: 10 Enchanting Fore-Edge Paintings

By Dec.04, 2013

At Wigan Lane Books we love interesting and unique books of character. There are types of books that may look normal to the naked eye, but can actually have a hidden secret. A secret that was only recently rediscovered and popularised by Colleen Theisen at the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of […]

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