We're just back from the WSI Excellence and Innovation conference in Birmingham. Topics covered included advanced pay-per-click marketing, WSI's relationship with Google in the UK, how businesses can benefit from social media and much more. We also reviewed several case studies demonstrating how our WSI colleagues have benefitted businesses across the UK with Internet consultancy and marketing services. Watch this space for snippets from the conference coming up soon! We will be putting some new services to help our clients and prospects get the best return on their marketing spend - so watch this space for more information about how you can benefit from the Internet.

A recent survey by Pear Analytics, "Twitter Study - August 2009", found that 37.55% of tweets were conversational, and the remainder weren't including 40.55% of "pointless babble". Is this a case of more being less or a reflection of reality?

According to Google, around 80% of internet users watch videos - not just for fun, but for education and business purposes too. To find out more about it, why not visit YouTube and search for some of your products and services, to see what other people are doing. There are lots of different ways to make a video, and effective ones can be made quite cheaply in many cases.

The main point about SEO is that it isn't an instant fix and requires ongoing and consistent effort. One of the most important activities is to publish new content on a regular basis - content which is useful for your site visitors and also tells google more about you.

We came across an interesting problem this week when launching a new website for a demolition and remediation services company. Initially, the client couldn't see the images placed at the top of each page. This only happened when he used his laptop - he c...