Content Optimisation
Social SEO Smackdown: BING VS GOOGLE and Other Inter-Species Combat
At least two essential global inter-species combat tournaments are taking place. On the one hand, Microsoft has declared war on Google with its new(ish) search engine, Bing. On the other, a Fox is locked in an epic battle against three Azure Winged Magpies and a Chaffinch. Bite those ears off!
Social Media Content and Online PR Strategy Map (A New Cut Out & Keep)
We put together this post in response to a common client request: HELP! Many brands are now stuck wondering how the hell to get any decent ‘play’ out of their Social Media content, assets and profiles. If this is you then check this out…
Content Optimisation Smackdown: Proust vs Google
For the copywriting purists out there, some of these content concepts can feel brutish at first …but our advice is always to work it. Content Optimisation can be the difference between a campaign that sticks with a top 10 Google ranking and one that sinks without a trace.
Google Watch: New Related Search Feature, Bigger Content Snippets
Last week Google unveiled a couple of small but interesting new Search features that will likely influence how we tackle SEO in the near term. The first is simply an extension of it’s ‘Related Search’ functionality – and it’s pretty cool…
Online PR Agency Giveaway: Best Practice Online PR Handbook & Don’t Panic Guide to Online PR
We’ve been talking a lot about the hows, whys and wotnots of Online PR and Social Media lately, so we thought we’d round up all our best practice advice for you in a single, multi-facted handbook, and a supporting presentation slide deck.
Online PR and Web Content Marketing: Lessons from the SEO Side
Can a solid SEO strategy can be the difference between a thriving online publishing house and a dying one – irrespective of the quality of their content? SEOBook thinks so, and I think so too….
New Five Step Guide to Online PR and Social Media Agency Work
Holy Smoke! We’ve gone and published a handy five step guide to everything-you-needed-to-know-about-Online-PR-and-Social-Media-Agency-Work-but-were-afraid-to-ask…
The Five Step ‘Shut Up, Listen and Spin’ Guide to Online PR and Social Media Agency Work
Confused about all this Social Media Agency witchcraft? Well, help is at hand. Taking the pretentious out of PR, this paper demystifies all this hip digital marketing stuff and show you how we execute a basic Online PR campaign – in under 10 pages!
Who’s Looking At You? The Reactive Side of Online PR
Like most web-savvy PR people, we at C&M we take a proactive approach to creating an online stir. But are we missing a trick by not making our content kinder to reporters who come looking for us?
Cut to the Chase: A Minimalist Approach to Web Copy
When’s the last time you sat down and read an entire website ‘cover to cover’? Aside from news pages and blogs, most web content is there to direct readers to a practical service, and they don’t want to hang around wading through needless waffle to get it. Here’s how to do it the right way…
C&M’s Bookish Review: the Top Five Head Fodder of 2008
That’s right, more list-o-mania from C&M… This time it’s all about the bookish head-fodder (ie, train, plane and Ovaltine-fodder) that’s seen us through the year. Our top five reads of 2008 ought to give you some idea on how and why we do our schtick…
Party Harder: Five Basic Theories of Social Media Marketing
In order to engage with your audiences online, you need to shape your words, messages and tactics around their agendas, not yours. In other words, your Online PR efforts need to be a whole lot more social than they have been up until now. Here’s how to do it properly…
Traditional PR is Broken (vol 2): The Online PR Bullet List
Our post on the death of traditional PR a couple of weeks ago raised a few pulses. We had a very definite point to make. Traditional PR is broken because it’s inaccessible. Online PR is the antidote: it’s perfect for firms who want to see an immediate return on their marketing spend.
Online PR Campaigns: Old is the New New (Why Trad PR is so Wasteful!)
Run-of-the-mill traditional PR and marketing tactics are inherently wasteful and often irrelevant in terms of our customer requirements. So stop with all the ‘New!’ You need Online PR to nurture relationships by recycling a bit of the Old instead…
What’s a Social Media Agency?
Rocket science not included. Proceed at ease...
Get the Scoop on Social Media PR…
Been there, seen it, bought T-Shirt, wrote it up....
What the Hell is Social SEO?
Clue: it's not spammy and it adds value to users....
ONLINE PR & SOCIAL MEDIA AGENCY KNOW-HOW
Online PR & Social Media Blog /// MORE
Say Hello to Paul, Our Very Affable New Head of Accounts
As our original ad for the role stated, Paul’s job is to be more Mad Men than IM, Twitter, Foursquare and the rest. His job is to talk to all of our clients – preferably at a distance of three paces, and to get the Martinis in whenever they’re needed. Oh, and to always have a glowing report to hand.
Why do 95.769% of Social Media Projects Fail? PLANNING!
In C&M’s experience, failure to deliver value on Social Media projects is 95.769% down to the lack of a plan. Why? Because 95.6579% of the time Social Media is seen as free
















