As our fundraising activities for Byte Night ramp up, we’re inviting brand managers and business leaders to attend a Digital Clinic, where they will receive expert advice on search engine optimisation, social media, Google Adwords and Analytics in return for a charitable donation. Businesses can also submit a sealed bid to receive a website audit, which will [...]

Hello, sorry about this mass begging letter but 16 of us from Code will be sleeping rough on the streets of Manchester on the 8th October in order to raise money and awareness for homeless children, as part of Action for Children’s Byte Night. It’s just one night in the cold (and probable rain, let’s [...]

After reading a few articles floating around about the logo on Google and the anticipation of Google releasing real-time — ‘AJAXed‘ — search results I thought I would put some initial thoughts together on what this might mean for SEO and driving natural search traffic to websites. In brief, AJAX search results would mean that [...]

Twitter is a key social hub for consumers, second to the ubiquitous Facebook. Twitter provides a way to have manageable conversations en-mass with consumers and should be given a clear role as part of a digital strategy. Brands like the Tate, ASOS, Topshop and Compare the Market have successfully managed to integrate Twitter into their [...]

When I first saw the announcement yesterday from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that it was widening its digital remit http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11140676, my first thoughts were that this was an ‘doh, of course…’ kind of story. Digital is now a key comms channel so why should it be subject to any different level of scrutiny than [...]