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. ...

SEO Gets Visitors to Your Website For small business in Cumbria, SEO techniques allow your website to be found. It is at this point that your website design becomes critical. The new visitor to your web page is interested in finding the information that they typed in their query, i.e. the answer to their question. Is your web page optimised for that keyword that you want to bring visitors for? More than one click, and you will have lost your...

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...