Silicon Beach Training Blog

Google Ranks Blogs in a New Way

Nathan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:35:55 +0000

Those of you who regularly use Google Blog Search may be interested in a recent change. It makes it easier for you to find a blog on a specific topic , rather than finding individual posts. Google collects information from a blog’s feed and from the blog itself in an attempt to understand what a [...]

New Gmail Priority Inbox

Heather Buckley — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:53:45 +0000

The New Gmail Priority Inbox is going to make Gmail much more viable for mainstream users. Introduced yesterday in Beta, it enables GMail users to prioritise email based on who you contact. So spammers and email marketers are going to the bottom of the pile. (Silicon Beach Training have launched a new email marketing training course, [...]

How Does Google Measure Brand?

Heather Buckley — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:43:09 +0000

The big brands are now getting more exposure in the Google search results than ever before. Although Google are talking about the importance of brand there seems to be little information about how “brand” is measured, what makes a brand stronger in the eyes of Google would be very useful indeed. We offer some [...]

I’m digging the new Digg?

Heather Buckley — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:15:08 +0000

Kevin Rose, Digg’s co-founder previously warned “the new version of Digg, which would go live in the next few months, would represent the biggest change in the site’s history. To learn more about Social Media then why not book onto one of our Social Media Courses. We have some great deals on at the moment especially [...]

How to say NO to pushy sales people – or how to become one!!

Heather Buckley — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:06:57 +0000

Have you ever signed up for something when you really didn’t want to? Good sales people spend months, sometimes years learning to break down your resistance to the NO word. Of course you could always enrol onto our brilliant Assertiveness Training course to make it easier (next one is 14th and 15th Oct 2010), meanwhile… Learning [...]

Why do people avoid being assertive?

Heather Buckley — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:43:48 +0000

Good assertiveness skills help build confidence and self esteem. They help avoid bullying and being bullied or feeling the victim. We provide a two day Assertiveness training course providing practical guidance for anyone who needs to develop their assertiveness skills and build confidence for a range of situations. Assertivness encourages mutual respect within relationships. It can save [...]

Increase traffic and improve ranking with Blogging and Social Media

Heather Buckley — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:35:49 +0000

So you’ve followed our writing a great blog post advice or been on our blogging training course and written a killer blog post. Now what? If you are new to Social Media we provide an excellent Social Media Course you can save a lot using our summer deals especially if you book with a SEO Course [...]

Data Analysis for SEO – Rob Green at Brighton SEO

Heather Buckley — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:58:05 +0000

To learn more about SEO and Social Media look at our SEO Training course and our Social Media Training course. We also offer Google Analytics Training Rob Green from iCrossing talks about Data Analysis for SEO. I know it’s taking me forever to upload all the videos from #brightonseo but I am getting there! Don’t judge me! [...]