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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>E-consultancy - Dave Chaffey's Blog</title><link>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/author-1149/dave-chaffey.xml</link><description>E-consultancy: Dave Chaffey's Blog</description><language>en-UK</language><copyright>Copyright 2008 E-consultancy.com</copyright><generator>E-consultancy.com</generator><image><url>http://www.e-consultancy.com/images/feed-thumbnail.jpg</url><title>E-consultancy Internet Marketing News</title><link>http://www.e-consultancy.com/</link></image><item><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/topic_2/strategy-and-planning.html">Strategy and Planning</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/phrase_strategy_1/strategy.html">Strategy</category><title>Audit checklist - best practice in managing digital channels</title><author>Dave Chaffey &lt;postman@e-consultancy.com&gt;</author><description><![CDATA[<p>
	<b>What is the best approach for reviewing an organisation's digital marketing strategy to identify ways to improve results from online channels?</b>
</p><p>This is one of the questions we will answer in the upcoming E-consultancy "<i>Managing Digital Channels</i>" Best Practice Guide. </p><p>This post presents ten essential steps to complete a digital channel performance audit and improvement plan audit based on initial interviews with senior e-commerce managers from a range of companies including Bupa, Dell, EDF Energy, FT.com, Mercedes Benz, Oxfam, Ted Baker, Thomas Cook, uSwitch and Virgin Atlantic.</p>]]></description><link>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/365316/audit-checklist--best-practice-in-managing-digital-channels.html</link><comments>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/365316/audit-checklist--best-practice-in-managing-digital-channels.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:39:00 UT</pubDate><guid>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/365316/audit-checklist--best-practice-in-managing-digital-channels.html</guid></item><item><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/topic_30/search-engine-marketing.html">Search Engine Marketing</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/phrase_seo_1/seo.html">SEO</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/phrase_search-engine-optimization_1/search-engine-optimization.html">Search Engine Optimization</category><title>Simplifying SEO - Five laws of effective search engine optimisation</title><author>Dave Chaffey &lt;postman@e-consultancy.com&gt;</author><description><![CDATA[<p>
	<b>Alan Eustace, a Google VP of search engineering, announced last year that there are now over </b>
	<a href="http://google.client.shareholder.com/Visitors/event/build2/MediaPresentation.cfm?MediaID=20263&amp;Player=1#" target="_blank">
		<b>200 signals that Google uses to determine document relevance</b>
	</a>
	<b>for a searcher. Unfortunately, he didn’t go on to explain them all… :)</b>
</p><p>With this number of factors and constantly updating algorithms, it’s tricky when I want to explain to a site owner when training or consulting which really matter. So here are five laws of effective SEO I have defined to assess strategic focus on SEO - hopefully it's easier to remember five laws than 200!</p>]]></description><link>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362579/simplifying-seo--five-laws-of-effective-search-engine-optimisation.html</link><comments>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362579/simplifying-seo--five-laws-of-effective-search-engine-optimisation.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:49:00 UT</pubDate><guid>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362579/simplifying-seo--five-laws-of-effective-search-engine-optimisation.html</guid></item><item><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/topic_2/strategy-and-planning.html">Strategy and Planning</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/topic_10/e--mail-marketing.html">E-mail Marketing</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/phrase_email-marketing_1/email-marketing.html">Email marketing</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/phrase_contact-strategies_1/contact-strategies.html">Contact strategies</category><category domain="http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/phrase_e--crm_1/e--crm.html">E-CRM</category><title>E-mail Marketing Best Practice Trends</title><author>Dave Chaffey &lt;postman@e-consultancy.com&gt;</author><description><![CDATA[<p>
	<b>A good, </b>
	<a href="http://www.e-consultancy.com/publications/email-marketing-briefing-october-2006/" target="_blank">
		<b>free summary of E-mail trends</b>
	</a>
	<b>has just been published by E-consultancy from one of their round tables. This features much of the guidance in the new edition of my </b>
	<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=marketingonli0d6&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;location=%2FTotal-E-mail-Marketing-Maximizing-E-marketing%2Fdp%2F0750680679%2F" target="_blank">
		<b>Email marketing book</b>
	</a>
	<b>and in my Email marketing workshops. </b>
</p><p>Here is a summary of my take on the top e-mail trends, based on my experience in 2006, but with my thoughts on the first few prompted by the E-consultancy briefing. </p><p> </p>]]></description><link>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362212/e--mail-marketing-best-practice-trends.html</link><comments>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362212/e--mail-marketing-best-practice-trends.html#comments</comments><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:41:00 UT</pubDate><guid>http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/362212/e--mail-marketing-best-practice-trends.html</guid></item></channel></rss>