We're very pleased that the new Joomla Cornwall Group has been accepted by OpenSource Matters, and that we have now been listed in the official Joomla Groups directory.

There is more information about the "Joomla Cornwall Group" on our main web site, and anyone interested in finding our more, or attending events when we start them please do contact us to express your interest.

We're pleased to announce that we will be running an additional pair of Internet marketing courses next week - on Thursday June 9th, being....

• Basics of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) for a small business - AM Course,
  
• Making use of Social Media Marketing (Twitter, Facebook etc) - PM Course.
  

Today I wanted to highlight a couple of Google Adwords and SEO Scams going round at the moment. This is nothing new I know but people keep on falling for them, so its worth explaining a bit about how they work.

Here are a couple we've seen recently.

Scam 1. "We'll get you on the first page of Google for £99 per month"

One of our trainees at the eCommerce course this Thursday asked me to send some more information about building links – especially in Forums, so I’ll put it here for everyone to benefit.

And the point is?
Remember the most important thing – what you want to do is put links on other sites, that link to your site. The sites where you may do this include forums, commenting on other peoples blogs, writing your own blogs elsewhere, article sites, PR sites, and profile pages on social sites and on-line directories. There were some long lists of these in the notes from our first internet marketing course.

There have been a number of instances recently where I have looked at improving the number of visitors to very visual sites - typically for an Artist or Photographer. I'm lucky enough to have a few good friends that are really excellent photographers, so its a personal interest of mine to make sure they do well!

However there always seems to be the same essential mismatch between what the photographer / artist does, and the requirements of good search engine marketing.