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Google Places Results May Now Be Costing You Traffic?


You may have found recently that Google Places has started to impact more dramatically on your website traffic due to the integration of local results into the standard organic results. Some search results have seen practically the whole of page 1 being dominated by the Google Places results and if you were previously appearing on page 1 in the organic listings you may have seen your website being pushed down and off the page. If you are targeting keywords that [...]

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Click-Through-Rate, Bounce Rate & Visitor Retention


3 Important SEO Factors Starting an SEO campaign, whether for a new or an established website, should begin with ensuring that the on-page SEO structure is in place. There’s no point starting to build backlinks to a site that isn’t going to rank well in the search engine results pages, no matter how many links are pointing to it, because of poor onsite optimisation. Ensuring that url’s, meta data, titles, headings, image alt tags etc are properly optimised is essential but there are [...]

Preening Pages – Styling Your Onsite SEO


With Christmas heading our way at an alarming rate and winter fashion hitting the shops, it could well be time for a little style makeover. I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking woollen bobble hats, fluffy ear muffs and one piece long-johns, aren’t you? Well I’m not. And if you’re a canny website owner you shouldn’t be either. If we all screw on our business heads for a moment and look to the coming  months, it’s clear that higher search [...]

New Google Place Search


Place Search: A New Kind Of Local Search From Google Last week Google introduced a new Place Search. Prior to the new changes whenever a Google search returned a Places map together with a list of local businesses it looked like the image on the right. The map and up to 7 businesses (marked with red pins A to G) were shown above the organic listings with the usual sponsored links still appearing to the right and top left of [...]

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SEO Manchester In DMOZ At Last


SEO Manchester In DMOZ I got a nice surprise one morning a few months back when I found that my SEO Manchester website listing had been accepted in DMOZ, the Open Directory Project and the most comprehensive human-reviewed directory on the web. In the past Google has always placed a lot of trust in websites that are listed in DMOZ. How big a deal it is nowadays is hard to tell. Everyone has their own opinion. Whether your site gets [...]

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