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...

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. ...

What does someone mean when they start rabbiting on about a local SEO company? It sounds technical and perhaps a little… dirty! Don’t they mess about with white hats and black hats in cloistered cells? It all sounds a bit super nerdy for an “ordinary” Cumbria based business to get involved in. For a Borders based business, maybe it smacks a little too much of an Internet version of the “Border Reivers for local...

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...

When I mention SEO or search engine optimisation to local business associates in Carlisle and further afield, I often receive a reply in the form of a blank stare or a “… yes I know that’s important but …. I’ve just got to get round to it!”  Small local busineses have often spent hundreds, if not thousands of pounds on websites, Like pages and Twitter software, but have not been aware of that crucial step...