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How to use Digg effectively: 10 steps to becoming a Digg pro!
Effectively using Digg can be hard to do, but when done it’s an invaluable way of achieving high Google rankings and driving traffic to your site. As with all in Social Media Marketing success comes with finding the balance between remembering the end game and remembering that it’s a social network – so no spamming or constant self-promo! This ten step guide will talk you through the Digg must-dos, tell you what big mistakes to avoid and help you decide if Digg is a useful marketing tool for your business. See this guide to the best social bookmarking sites if you’d like to compare Digg with other sites such as Delicious and StumbleUpon.
Silicon Beach Training offer a range of Social Media Training courses including SEO Training and Blogging Training. We’re also on Digg – come and be our friends!
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Posted by Natasha Stone in SEO Training, Social Media on July 2nd, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of Social Media Tips, Guides, Plugins, Platforms, Analytics Tools, Apps and other great Social Media resources. This list is designed as a reference guide for delegates who have attended our Social Networking training or SEO training courses – but it would be mean of us not to make it available to everyone. Enjoy…
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Posted by Colin Welch in Social Media on January 5th, 2010 | 56 Comments »
Silicon Beach Training are one of the UK’s leading providers of PRINCE2 Foundation Training and PRINCE2 Practitioner Training, with PRINCE2 Training courses now in Birmingham as well as Brighton.
Now you can test your knowledge of PRINCE2 with our interactive PRINCE2 Quiz!
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Posted by Colin Welch in PRINCE2 Training on November 30th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Image by Rafael Amado Deras
Silicon Beach Training offers Video for the Web training, SEO training and Social Media Training. We also offer Photoshop CS5 Training so I’ll have to take my own advice and get making and optimising some Adobe Photoshop CS5 Training Videos!
YouTube is the second most important search engine in the world according to Search Engine Watch. High ranked video in Youtube can often mean first page positions in Google’s universal search results. So in effect we need to answer two questions.
- How can I rank my videos in Youtube?
- How can I rank my Youtube videos in Google?
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Posted by Heather Buckley in SEO Training, Social Media on June 24th, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Ever get intimidated by the fast-pace of Social Media? Ever feel you’re wasting time trying to keep on top of it all? Well fear no longer! We’re giving away a free Social Media Schedule PDF download, that we usually provide on our Social Media Training courses.
To accompany this, we’ve already posted a suggested timetable on how you can manage your Social Media activity. Of course, if you’re still struggling, our interactive Time Management Training and Stress Management Training courses are worth a look.
Not sure why you’d need a Social Media Schedule? See this video of Heather explaining why you must “remember the End Game” when Social Media Marketing.
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Posted by Natasha Stone in Social Media, Time Management on June 18th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Direct traffic in Google Analytics
During Google Analytics training delegates frequently ask what does direct traffic mean? Here’s our concise answer to help all beginners – if you’re already familiar with Analytics basics you may be interested in our Advanced Google Analytics training.
We run SEO training and frequently blog on all things SEO e.g. what’s the latest on nofollows?, optimising Facebook for Google and do MicroSites work?; do get in touch if there’s some SEO information you’d like to see covered.
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Posted by Faye Binfield in SEO Training on June 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
FAQ: Is training tax deductible?
At Silicon Beach Training we’re commonly asked whether training is taxable or vatable so thought we would explain the general UK tax rules for both self-employed and employers here. Many business owners and HR managers presume that any costs incurred on training are tax deductible, however there are some exceptions depending on who is paying and what the purpose of the training is.
Once you’ve cleared up your tax confusions, have a browse of our many IT, Business and Management training courses: we offer SEO Training, Photoshop Training, PRINCE2 Training, HR Training and Train the Trainer Training amongst others.
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Posted by Alistair Wylie in HR, Train the Trainer on June 8th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“A business without a blog is a business without a heart”
Social Media Training course excerpt 4
This is the fourth video blog from Silicon Beach Training’s Social Media Training session which runs regularly in Brighton, on its own or discounted as part of our new Social Media and SEO Training package.
In this first video Heather Buckley (one of our directors and co-founders) explains that a regularly updated blog will form the backbone of an online marketing strategy and that a business marketing online without a blog is really a business without a heart…
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Posted by Natasha Stone in Social Media on June 1st, 2010 | 2 Comments »
