Curious has been shortlisted for a Customer Focus award, recognising it’s commitment to customer service for our clients and their customers.

Targetting Local Search effectively can be a game changer – particularly for small businesses. The difference between and ‘also ran’ and a company at the top of local search results is lots of free, relevant traffic. This handy infographic navigates you through the key steps that’ll put you in the driving seat.

Donald Norman, director of The Design Lab, and author of “The Design of Everyday Things” of a door that displayed a ‘Push’ sign on a pull handle the quote above. Kind of really sums up usability in my opinion (both on the web and in the real world): at it’s best you don’t need instructions,… Read More

Find out about the new full-screen video website we’ve created for Cosy Under Canvas, that’s reduced drop off by over 25% – and driven an increase in reservations.

Find out why the approach most companies take to their website redesign is wrong – and how a simple change can deliver dramatically better results.

For a few months now, Google has been testing different ad layouts on it’s search results pages . They’re now rolling out the change more widely and we’ve taken a look at the implications.

Have you noticed strange traffic patterns in your analytics reporting? Massive spikes in traffic that don’t relate to any of your marketing activity or are you sitting back wondering why what appear to be thousands of visitors aren’t translating to new business? It could well be that all isn’t as it seems and that you’re… Read More

If you’ve been on social media today there’s probably one thing that’s dominating your feed – The John Lewis Christmas Advert. In case you haven’t seen it, it goes a little something like this:   A little girl is looking through a telescope where she spots a man on the moon. He seems a bit… Read More

Back in February, Google announced that, from April 21st, it would increase the importance of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal in its mobile search algorithm. In short, they gave website owners an ultimatum: fix your mobile user experience. We’re now just one week away from the date their algorithm change takes effect and it’s clear that a significant number… Read More

There are many great websites out there, but this is my favourite – for all the wrong reasons. Take a look and see what lessons it can teach you.

“My mother says she’s cold and then makes me put on a coat” Chris came across this quote above the other day and posted it on our blog as it made her chuckle. Reading it I thought that, despite it being attributed to ‘Colin, aged 7’, it could have equally been applied to myself around… Read More