July 28th, 2010

We thought we’d share a couple of techniques we use to conduct our AdWords campaigns.

Using the Google Insights for Search Tool, we can track the number of searches being carried out for any particular search term.

The chart below shows the search histrory for the “Commercial property Manchester” search term. We can see from this the drop in interest in property well before the recession truly hit.

This kind of insight allows us to reduce bids on our clients’ keywords which saves money without effecting traffic performance.

If you’re interested in a professionally run AdWords campiagn, drop us a line – we’d love a chat!

Filed under: AdWords, Bella, Google, Marketing, SEM, SEO by Brendan
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December 2nd, 2009

Britain’s obsession with celebrity culture shows no sign of slowing according to Yahoo! The search engine has just announced the top 10 searches carried out during 2009.  Take a look at the list below and wonder in amazement.

Yahoo!’s Top 10 Searches 2009

1. Big Brother
2. X Factor
3. Job centre
4. Michael Jackson
5. Jade Goody
6. Premier League
7. Swine Flu
8. Katie Price
9. Cheryl Cole
10. Train Times

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October 21st, 2009

I’ve been receiving a few emails recently about an old post I wrote regarding the Coda style popups. I wrote the post in response to a tutorial on the jQuery site detailing how to achieve the popup effect on the Coda site.

Quite a few people (myself included) wanted to have multiple popups on the same page but hit a number of obstacles. I managed to get the effect working well and have left an example on the Bella site here. Feel free to view the source code and pull it apart. You should be able to recreate the effect fairly easily. You can see the effect in full flow on our home page. We like it and think it works well.

Let me know how you get on and how you use the popups.

Cheers,

Filed under: Bella, Design, SEO, Web design by Brendan
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