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If you’re a frequenter of SEO blogs and Twitter alike you will no doubt have heard mumblings of how the time that it takes for your website or webpages to load could be of more significance in the future.

After stating that page speed is already a factor in the AdWords quality score, Matt Cutts of Google has recently said that the search engine will soon also consider page loading time as a factor for Search Engine Optimisation.

Page load time will just be the latest factor taken into account when ranking a page. There are currently around 200 individual …

Here at Chichester Design we’re always harping on about the importance of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and we hope that by now that you’ve got the message. But today’s question is…

Do you have a Local Business Listing displaying on Google?

Adding your business information to Google’s Local Business Center will help you reach customers on Google search and Google Maps. By supplying Google with geographic information about your business potential customers are able to find you when searching for services within a specific region. Local results are displayed at the top of search results and are often used by …

By now most people are familiar with the world of social media and how it can benefit their business as a promotional tool but others still see one sticking point- how it can ruin their reputation.

We all know the benefits of social media, it can:

• Raise brand awareness
• Promote special offers and events
• Provide company insight and personality
• Provide a useful vehicle for communicating with customers on their own level, at their own pace, in real time
• Act as a quick and easy vehicle for trouble-shooting
• Bolster Search Engine Optimisation

What about the ways that it can go wrong?  …

If you’re down with the Twitterati then I’m guessing you’re aware of #hashtags. Sticking a hashtag before a keyword/phrase is one way that you could enter the Twitter trends and encouraging people to include, say #ChichesterDesign, in their Tweets helps people to follow a conversation on a particular topic, not to mention it’s a genius way of self-promoting.

For those of you who aren’t in the know, hashtags.org define the phenomenon as:

“Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your Tweets. They’re like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a …

What you up to on Wednesday 28^th October 2009? Ben and Kate from Chichester Design will be attending Business Focus 09 at Chichester College. And you can rest assured that we will be there with fire in our hearts and bellies to present just how much excitement our marketing services can bring to your business.

This is the first Chichester-based business to business exhibition of its kind and it has been put together by The Chichester Observer, Chichester Chamber of Commerce, Chichester College, Chichester District Council, Business Link and the South Coast Design Forum.

Hundreds of business folk …