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...

Google Places Listings are Essential For Your Business in Cumbria or Anywhere – Here are 5 Reasons Why Google Places is an important component of Google Maps. Starting a couple of years ago, Google set about creating an internet business tool that tied locations and customer facing, local businesses together. For the business owner, this attempt by Google to map out the business landscape of the world means that they can make themselves...

Depending on the competitiveness of your market, local search ranking for your website can be difficult to achieve.  If you have arrived at the altar of local search engine optimisation rather late and your competitors are already ahead of you, then you have really got an uphill battle.  What is extraordinary, is that many companies who have done very well in getting their web site ranked; have got a complete blindspot about Google Places. ...

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...