Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022

Photo of Queen Elizabeth II

  Clever Marketing would like to pay its respects to Queen Elizabeth II who died yesterday. The team here have all been saddened by the loss of our longest serving monarch, who reigned over the nation for an incredible seventy years. Our sincerest condolences go out to the royal family at this most sombre of […]

How We Do SEO: Digital Marketing Insights

How we do SEO

We’ve seen many blog posts extolling the virtues of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), telling you what you should to optimise your website. However, we don’t recall seeing any articles about how to actually go about conducting the optimisation of web pages. That’s not to say that they don’t exist, just that in all our time […]

Here Comes the Google Helpful Content Update

Google Useful Content Update

Google has announced its latest “helpful content update” which will help articles written by humans for humans rank better than content developed purely to trick the search engines…

Attention to Detail: Crucial for Design & Digital Marketing

Attention to detail is vital in design and digital marketing.

Our design and digital marketing agency has been in business for about 15 years now, and our core team members have even greater experience in the industry. We have graphic designers each with over 30 years in the studio, print design experience dating back over 30 years, and digital skills like SEO, technical SEO, and […]

The Most Valuable Tools at Our Digital Agency

The Most Valuable Tools at Our Digital Agency

Chatting with one of our graphic designers the other day, a question was asked: “What is the most valuable tool you work with?” Now that is a great question. In over thirty years working in design and digital, we’ve used everything from Notepad to Notepad++, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, FileZilla, Flash, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, […]

Getting Your Business Noticed Online

Getting your business noticed online.

As a full-service marketing agency we’re going to talk about getting your business noticed from a digital perspective. That means all the online tactics and digital strategies… Organic Listings When you first build your website, getting indexed and ranked in the search engines is essential. After all, if you’re not in the search engines, how […]

5 Good Reasons to Maintain Your Marketing Budget

Five good reasons to maintain your marketing budget.

  Whenever there’s talk about an economic downturn, or even a recession, the commercial conversations usually turn the subject of marketing and, more specifically, speculation about reducing marketing spend.     It happened during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and again during the time of the worldwide COVID pandemic starting in 2020. Business owners considered […]

Landing Page Design with SEO in Mind

Landing Page Design with SEO in Mind

Landing page design is the creation of webpages purely for advertising or marketing campaigns, with the primary goal of converting visitors into customers or subscribers. However, whilst digital marketers have made the landing page this very specific type of webpage, technically speaking ANY page in a website that a user can land on, through organic […]

Common SEO Mistakes and Their Solutions: Blog Posts

Man working on a white laptop while leaning against the wall.

Writing blog posts is easy. You open WordPress, throw in a heading, and type away until you’re finished. Then you hit the publish button and, voila, you have a blog post. You share it on social media, job done! Err, not quite. Do you think that’s how the BBC write news stories? First, Your Subject […]

Google I/O 2022 and the Future of Digital Marketing

Google I/O 2022 and the Future of Digital Marketing

At yesterday’s Google I/O 2022 developer conference, the company revealed a number of plans for upgrades to both search and Maps, hinting at a greater use of augmented reality. Google also announced new hardware in the shape of the Pixel 7 Phone, Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds Pro, all designed, it seems, to greater rival […]