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Should You Start Your Own Home-Based Business?
Many people have job uncertainty at the moment and the option of working from home begins to look more attractive. You can’t fire yourself and the prospect of giving yourself a disciplinary warning seems unlikely! Joking aside, however, the decision to start your own business cannot be taken lightly. You would be well…
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Does the Google Panda Update Spell the End for Duplicate Content?
Remember the Google algorithm, now nicknamed ‘Panda’ which was rolled out in March to the USA and now last month to the rest of the world? The implementation of the algorithm has caused much interest in internet marketers and some consternation in the websites it has affected but now results are beginning to come in…
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Some Ideas for When Running a Small Business Gets Tough
I loved the Royal Wedding last Friday. The family sat down together to enjoy the day. The bride was beautiful, the dress was gorgeous, the groom was handsome in his uniform and the bridesmaids were cute. The bride and groom appeared to thoroughly enjoy their day and the beginning of their new life together. Most…
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The Simple Guide to SEO Terms
Here are some of the terms regularly used in SEO jargon and the simple explanations for them. Affiliate Marketing – running ads on your website for a company which will pay you per impression or click or lead. There are umbrella companies set up that will enable you to apply to suitable affiliates for your…
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How to Have a Good Holiday as a Small Business Owner
There’s something about being a small business owner that makes it difficult to stop being a small business owner. Even when you’re at dinner, taking the kids to school or even on holiday, then you still have a million small jobs to do: marketing, improving your website or even actually working. How do you manage…
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Google Panda Comes to the UK
Google has rolled out its latest algorithm worldwide. The first introduction of this code change to the search engine had some far reaching effects on websites that had previously flourished under the Google regime. Websites such as Hubpages and Suite101 were affected but they are websites with many contributors and with volume, quality can go…
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Crazy Business Ideas
The thread at UKBusiness Forums started me thinking – how many crazy business ideas have been started and were they successful? The answers on the forum varied from: ‘Give me a million and I’ll tell you’ to ‘Sell an E-book on ‘How to Make a Million’ for £5 to 200,000 people’ but it sent me…
