Knowing which citation sources are going to be effective for improving the local seo performance of your website as a Cumbria based business has been a fairly hit and miss affair.  In different market sectors, you tend to find a different pattern of  citations, directories and listing services.  Citation! That doesn’t sound very Cumbrian, does it?  I think it would be fair to say that it is another adopted americanism, but all it...

In the present fragile recovery phase of our economy, online marketing is more important than ever, to help your businesses get found by new customers.  With the demise of paper based directories, the Internet is becoming the first port of call for discerning consumers seeking a wide range of solutions to problems, information and entertainment.  Crucially, a lot of that online search is mobile device driven. We live in a world where people...

Local search engine optimisation is no longer an optional add on for your bricks and mortar business.  The techniques of this process are all surprisingly simple, but there are a lot of them and they do need to be repeated often to generate the kind of customer capture every business wants. Is your business one that would do better if it were ranked locally in the search engines? You will find below three powerful suggestions that you can...

Getting your website, Google Places Listing and your directory placements to work together and deliver customers through your door, is a not so simple call for a Local SEO hero. I’ll apologise in advance for the lack of red under-crackers on the outside, but there are a couple of heroes out there who can help you get the results you want.Locally, there’s me  … recent graduate of the Cumbria school of SEO hard knocks. More...

Internet marketing strategies are no longer the preserve of uber geeks and multinationals. In Cumbria, local search, using Google and the other search engines is rapidly overtaking traditional Yellow Pages and the other directories. This is simply mirroring an accelerating global trend. To succeed and get more customers from the Internet, business owners need to learn and understand the importance of optimised websites which target t,he local...