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How building backlinks can boost your website’s SEO

If you’re concerned that your website isn’t ranking high enough on Google, then the solution could be link-building.

Backlinks are like digital referrals. When a website links to your brand or content, it’s like a friend or colleague recommending your business to their network. It’s essentially an endorsement or a vote of confidence from the linked website. And the more websites that recommend you, the more new audiences and potential customers you’ll reach because the better your website is likely to rank in search results.

Search engines view backlinks as indicators of a website’s credibility and relevance.
The higher the quality of the backlink from reputable sources such as industry experts, the higher your search rankings, which will drive organic traffic to your site and make it more visible to potential customers. They also help establish relationships between businesses and build the authority of your website domain.

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A visual guide to AI for small businesses

Dan Andrews from Scribey Sense joined a recent Cool Ventures workshop on ‘AI in Business’ and distilled it into useful ‘Cliffs Notes’. Amazing! Thanks Dan.

If you need a complex subject (like AI) distilling into visual simplicity, you should look him up.

In the spirit of AI and summarisation I asked Chat GPT4 to summarise his image.

The image is a colorful and creative infographic that seems to be aimed at small business owners, providing insights into the utilization of AI (Artificial Intelligence). It presents information in a casual and engaging manner, with various sections such as “Think of AI like an Assistant,” “Pro’s & Cons,” “What’s This Mean For Creatives?” and “Tips.”

  1. Think of AI like an Assistant: This section emphasizes that AI can help unblock obstacles, encouraging getting started with coding to accelerate one’s ideas.
  2. Pro’s & Cons: It warns the users to beware as AI might make stuff up, suggesting it’s great for outlines but needs human intervention for refinement.
  3. What’s This Mean For Creatives?: It addresses creatives specifically, advising them to ingest their work into the AI, but also highlighting that AI needs substantial hardware support. It also touches upon logo design, suggesting that a human designer is essential to finish up or improve the start made by the AI.
  4. Tips: Various tips are provided, such as always reviewing the outputs, being specific with commands, and experimenting.

Throughout the infographic, there are playful illustrations and visuals to make the content more digestible and engaging.

Image © Dan Andrews for Scribey Sense

IMC102: The Future of Marketing

In light of recent AI advancements I want to revisit a discussion from 2021 where I chaired a discussion on the shifting landscape of marketing with Nicky Ayers (Ecl-ips CCTV), Catherine Every (Pippin Copywriting) and Jon Johnson (Mountain Perspective). We looked at challenges that could impact on our strategies for lead generation. It’s interesting to see how little these have impacted us in the last 2 years but will probably see slower change over the long term. 

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