The Metanym Blog

Changes to Internet privacy laws

Posted on 27th May 2011 by Jon in Blogs, Ecommerce, News, Web Design, Web Development, Web Marketing

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European privacy laws came into force yesterday (26/5/11), meaning that all companies with a website need to consider the role of cookies and how they are going to address the issues that will now affect them. The purpose of the legislation is to give internet users greater control over data …

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FREE offer on Email Marketing

Posted on 18th May 2011 by Jon in Email, News, Web Marketing

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We are offering a 3 month free trial on our Email Marketing Pro package.  Our fully featured email marketing software is yours to try for this period for up to 6000 emails per month. We have a limited number of spaces available, so please let us know ASAP if you …

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SEO so good, we weren’t needed any more

Posted on 10th May 2011 by Jon in SEO, Web Marketing

David Winfield - SEO by Metanym

David Winfield is a Chartered Management Accountant who came to us in February as he wanted to improve his Google rankings for his chosen keywords: Accountant, Bookkeeping, Taxation and VAT all within his local area of Lincoln.  “I receive prompt and regular feedback. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Matt to …

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Newark Business Club Celebrates With A Little Help From Metanym

Posted on 9th May 2011 by Matt Bartlett in Metanym News

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Newark Business Club recently celebrated it’s 10th anniversary. The club was formed by a small group of Newark based business and has now grown to a membership of approximately 1,200 local companies.   Metanym Web Design in Newark and Lincoln is one of those. At the meeting on the 6th …

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Is your website Sticky?

Posted on 4th May 2011 by Jon in SEO, Web Design, Web Marketing

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Is your website STICKY? stick·y [stik-ee] – adjective: having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive. There are over 51 million Internet users in the UK – 82.5 % of population – and 28 million Facebook users, a 44.6% penetration rate! This means that your customers are increasingly internet-savvy.  They …

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Try our new Facebook Send Buttons!

Posted on 26th April 2011 by Jon in Metanym News, News, SEO, Social Media

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Yesterday saw the launch of the Facebook Send button.  The Facebook Like button has been around for about a year now, giving visitors to websites carrying the button an easy way to share a link to that page with their friends on Facebook. With a blog post yesterday on the …

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Add value to your customers Facebook pages

Posted on 19th April 2011 by Jon in Social Media, Web Marketing

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Facebook pages are a great way for companies and organisations to reach more people, and to communicate better with the people who already use their products or services.  I’m sure we’ve all clicked “Like” on a blog or a company’s Facebook page – it’s a great way of getting updates …

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To Tweet To Who…? (5 places to find people to follow on Twitter)

Posted on 6th April 2011 by Jon in Social Media

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So you’ve got onto Twitter and you know you need to follow some people as one way of starting to build your own following.  But who to follow? Here’s 5 places you can go to find people worth following: 1.  Twitter Grader Twitter Grader ranks Twitter users according to their …

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BEWARE: Fake Domain Renewal Notifications

Posted on 4th April 2011 by Jon in Domains, Email

BEWARE fake domain renewal notifications!

Occasionally, one of our clients will get in touch about an email they have had, urging them to renew their domain, from someone they have never heard of.  These emails are usually couched in urgent or frightening terms.  The text below is from an actual email forwarded to us by …

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SEO Jockey – a New Way to Crawl the Web?

Posted on 1st April 2011 by Jon in News, SEO

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As SEO ‘experts’ the world over constantly seem to rehash the same old ideas, we have become very agitated about an imminent change in focus from the major search engines to counter poor SEO advice and said to be the next big thing in SEO. “Search engine optimization is unlicensed, …

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