• News

    Posted on February 19th, 2010

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    Email Marketing from South˚

    Ever considered email marketing? Then Sendit from South˚ is the ideal tool for you.
    Sending email is easy, we all do it every day. But communicating with thousands of potential customers, racking responses, and being able to judge the effectiveness of each campaign, is where you need sophisticated management software. Doing all this is easy with [...]

  • Blog, News

    Posted on January 29th, 2010

    Written by Martin Houlden

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    South˚ launches CMS v3.0!

    South˚ are pleased to announce the next version of the CMS is now ready. v3.0 has been totally re-written from the ground up to be even more flexible and easy-to-use.
    We’re so pleased with it, that we’ve also built a new demo site at http://cms.south.co.uk that showcases the benefits of using the system and includes a [...]

  • Blog

    Posted on January 29th, 2010

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    Talkin’ about an evolution, yeah yeah…

    Yesterday, the 27th of January 2010, a man who is a bold IT visionary stood up in front of the world’s press in San Francisco (in his somewhat unfashionable turtleneck jumper and blue jeans) and released what he claimed was a “revolutionary new product”.
    At the same time on this side of the Atlantic, a slightly [...]

  • Blog

    Posted on October 28th, 2009

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    Load, take aim… Fire! – Owww!

    So, after spending the last few years carefully lining up it’s toes, the Royal Mail has finally gone and shot itself in the foot.
    I’ll be completely honest and admit that the details of the strike hold no interest for me, I’ve skim-read the issues and can only surmise that one side thinks it needs to [...]

  • Blog

    Posted on September 30th, 2009

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    Do cheap data-rates harm the mobile web community?

    It seems a pretty straightforward equation doesn’t it. If you want to encourage people to use the web on their mobile phones, then reduce the cost of data streaming, and more people will use it… Well no, it’s not quite that simple.
    I’ve just returned from a month long holiday in Canada – one of the [...]

  • News, Search Engine Optimisation

    Posted on September 1st, 2009

    Written by Martin Houlden

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    An introduction to SEO

    Need to understand more about Search Engine Optimisation? Check out our new blog section dedicated to promoting SEO best practice: http://blog.south.co.uk/category/search-engine-optimisation/
    http://blog.south.co.uk/2009/seo-tips-content/
    http://blog.south.co.uk/2009/seo-tips-coding-and-hosting/
    http://blog.south.co.uk/2009/seo-tips-metadata/
    http://blog.south.co.uk/2009/seo-tips-linking/
    http://blog.south.co.uk/2009/seo-tips-submission/
    http://blog.south.co.uk/2009/seo-tips-conclusion/

  • Search Engine Optimisation

    Posted on August 29th, 2009

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    An Introduction to Search Engine Optimisation

    Search engine optimisation (SEO) is viewed by many as a riddle, inside an enigma, inside a code. Search engines as a rule don’t tend to over-advertise exactly how they rate a site, so traditionally it has lead to speculation and results gleaned by trial and error.
    Keep in mind that the purpose of ranking sites is [...]

  • Search Engine Optimisation

    Posted on August 29th, 2009

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    SEO tips – Content

    Search engines have come a long way from the early days of optimisation. Remember the days when pages would contain lists of keywords in an attempt to get to the top?
    Fortunately those days are gone. Today’s search engine model is considerably wiser in the way it crawls content. You can’t con search engines with reams [...]

  • Search Engine Optimisation

    Posted on August 29th, 2009

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    SEO tips – Coding & Hosting

    Google advises businesses to build a site from the ground up with SEO in mind. By ensuring your coding is developed in such a way as to encourage a high level of usability and accessibility you ensure they are more easily readable by search engines. By doing this you allow more pages to be indexed [...]

  • Search Engine Optimisation

    Posted on August 29th, 2009

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    SEO tips – MetaData

    Accurately revealing the content of a page by using meta tags including page title, keywords and description helps some search engines list websites. and make sure that every page has unique page title and page description metadata.
    Titles and descriptions are used in the snippets (that is the text in some search results) think of these [...]

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