Ranking Your Website

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If you’ve tried to get your site ranked on the first page of Google with no success, if you’ve been less than happy with your current SEO company, or if you’re looking for an honest SEO expert who understands the game, you’ve come to the right place. Years of studying Google has helped me unlock the secrets of its SEO game. I’m now able to get almost any site ranked at the top of Google search results within a relatively short period of time. The equation is simple, but the implementation and the details involved are difficult: Optimization + Web Site Popularity = Top Google Ranking I cannot share my SEO secrets here, but when you sign up to see if your site qualifies for our SEO program, I will put aside a 15-minute free consultation with you to teach you a trick or two about Google SEO. I will also discuss the details of our SEO program and give you a realistic time-frame of how fast we can get your site ranked on the first page of Google. Google has seen double growth every year in the past several years. In 2008 and 2009 when the economy was sluggish, most of our clients reported an increase in their revenue – with the main source of new clients coming from the Internet. Within the same time-frame, we almost doubled the number of our clients and our revenues. Yes, we keep very busy and are only able to offer our successful SEO services to a few qualified businesses each month. So, find out if your site qualifies to be ranked on the first page of Google by filling out the form above. Need to find out more ?  

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What we offer is more advertising space, to allow you to give a detailed description of your business and individialise your business by making it stand out from the crowd. We Include a photo and /or Video of your choice and links to your websites with all relevant contact information. In addition we give you an opportunity to submit an editorial based on your business that will be keyword enhanced to rank solely on its own merit. That is, your blog/editorial merely focusing on what your business is all about. You will see it rank as a stand alone blog for the selected keywords and at the same time will be linked to your website and it will carry all your contact details. We give you the added BONUS of integrating with our social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. We will Tweet messages on Twitter through the day and also post messages on Facebook to keep locals informed of your activities , Specials or any other information you would like to communicate with the community. You can also post your own video on our Youtube Channel if you wish and we give you the opportunity to connect with our LinkedIn site. We give you the opportunity to have potential customers at your finger tips through our social media sites and give you the added benefit of being able to engage with them. Remember "people only buy from people they know and trust".

How To Rank On the 1st Page On Google

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How To Rank On the 1st Page On Google

We are an SEO and Web Design company and agency. We provide SEO Services & SEO Web Design; we are SEO experts & seo website design specialists providing SEO services to small to medium sized companies. Although we are based in London we work with a global client base. The aim of SEO is to give high organic listings through the use of on-page optimization (good seo web design) and off-page optimization using link building strategies and other seo technology. SEO Services & SEO Web Design understands this balance and continue to review and research the latest search engine otimization trends and the latest SEO technology. We aim to get all websites that take our Search Engine Optimization Internet marketing package to dramatically improve their ranking with Google and other major search engines. We know what works and what doesn’t in SEO web design. All of our Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques used by our SEO Experts are natural and ethical and use proven ‘White Hat’ SEO technology that are approved of by Google and all of the other major Search Engines. Our intention is to move our clients away from the need for costly Pay Per Click Campaigns which are becoming more expensive and competitive and towards more sustainable growth of internet traffic and site visitors.

Record Breaking Facebook

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A record-breaking 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook over New Year’s weekend, the social network announced Tuesday afternoon. The news follows a much bigger announcement made Monday: namely, that Facebook has received $450 million in a new round of funding from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies. Photos is arguably Facebook’s most popular feature, and one that the social network has improved through a number of product updates this year. Most notably, Facebook began displaying “related photos” on a right-hand sidebar to encourage further photo exploration (and page views) in May, and in late September, users were able to upload high-resolution photos to the network, as well as view full-size photos in the News Feed. The last major update, released in October, brought drag-and-drop album organization to Photos, one of the most-requested features for the Photos product. It’s no surprise that Facebook is breaking new records given the massive acceleration of user registrations in 2010, but the improvements to the product, we think, can also be attributed to its growing success.

WordPress Challenge

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Over the New Year holiday, WordPress issued a challenge to its blogger-users: Write and publish one post a day (or a week) throughout 2011. For non-professional and personal bloggers, writing and posting every day can be a tall order, so the good folks at WordPress have launched The Daily Post, a guide with daily tidbits of “inspiration, encouragement and advice about blogging.” Any user who wants to participate in the challenge simply needs to state his intentions then tag posts with “postaday2011″ or “postaweek2011″ throughout the year. Blogging more is a fairly common resolution among the digerati; in fact, it recently came up in a poll we conducted about tech-related goals for 2011. Quite a few users said they plan to consume less social media and create more content of their own in the coming year. WordPress’ Daily Post seems like a good enough place to start. Its suggestions for evocative post topics are great springboards for thoughtful writing. WordPress users also have the “Press This” bookmarklet for quick, Tumblr-like posting and a slew of mobile apps for on-the-go blogging, especially great for posting images. Have you set a blogging goal for 2011? Will you be participating in the WordPress daily or weekly challenges?

The Brands That Engage in Social Media The Most

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Engaging in social media is about being extremely open, creative and flexible. To stay competitive online, brands need to be investing in social media as a way to extend themselves to their customers. While advertising and cultivating an image are still important, it’s interaction that creates loyal customers. Using social media to show customers that your business is connected to what they say, think and feel about your products can amplify your brand’s message. We’ve compiled a list of five big brands that are most engaged in social media, and that go to extensive lengths to connect with consumers. Add your own thoughts on which brands are ahead of the curve in the comments below. Starbucks is on just about every corner in the real world, and that’s the same strategy the company has taken online as well. When it comes to a web presence, Starbucks has made its mark on Twitter, Facebook,YouTube, Foursquare, mobile apps and with its own social network, My Starbucks Ideas. The company dominates the social media landscape, creating active and engaging profiles on a variety of platforms. And according to some reports, Starbucks is the most engaged brand using social media for a few years running. Take a quick look at the coffee giant’s Twitter page, and you’ll see the company has just more than 1 million followers. The next thing you’ll notice is that there’s a lot of conversation going on. Starbucks is keeping busyresponding to mentions, apologizing for bad experiences, and just carrying on some interesting conversations with its followers. Meanwhile on Facebook, more than 15 million people “Like” the brand. And Starbucks is trying to make buying its product as integrated and seamless as possible. Take, for example, the Starbucks Card Facebook application it introduced this past April, which allows customers to manage their Starbucks Card accounts from within the social network. The company also recently announced that customers could now “Give a Gift” and credit their friends’ cards via Facebook, too. That feature is an idea born out of their community site, My Starbucks Idea. The Seattle-based caffeine king wants to know what you want from Starbucks, and the company is listening. The site enables consumers to share their ideas and critique others’ ideas as well. Discussions are encouraged, and the community votes to see which ideas become reality. The “Give a Gift” idea was suggested back in 2008, and drew more than 42,000 votes. It may have taken some time for the idea to become a reality, but it shows that Starbucks is listening to its customers. As one of the most universally recognized brands, it’s not surprising that Coca-Cola is the second most engaged brand according to Famecount. Just like Starbucks, Coke is active on Twitter, engaging in conversation with its 142,000 followers. Given that it has a worldwide following, it’s appropriate that many of the tweets are written in different languages. In addition to its overarching brand, each drink it produces also has its own Twitter page. On Facebook, it’s somewhat astounding that 15 million people “Like” the soft drink empire, but the company has done a good job of keeping things interesting and interactive. The Page is a hub of all sorts of activity, including posting fan photos, videos and social good initiatives like Live Positively, where fans voted for America’s favorite park to receive a $100,000 grant. On Coca-Cola’s YouTube channel, the soda company launched “Unlock The Secret,” a viral video campaign featuring Coke’s inventor, Doc Pemberton. By clicking on bottle links in the videos, viewers are taken to the@docpemberton Twitter page, Coke’s Ahh Giver app on Facebook (which allows users to send a message to a friend delivered in video format by the Coke polar bear), and Coke’s Smilezier, a novel feature that allows users to record their laughter and listen to other people’s as well. All of these efforts tie together Coca-Cola’s brand of happiness, and it’s created an interesting and original experience while engaging with consumers online.

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Twitter’s a great tool to connect with others, but what else can it do? Is it worthy of the hype, and will it be around long-term? There is actually a lot you can do with Twitter, and more uses are being discovered every day. Every niche uses Twitter differently (lawyers may use it to get advice on cases, while programmers might find work through Twitter). How many of these ways do you use?

1. Customer Service: One of the best known examples of how businesses are using Twitter is for customer service. We’ve all heard about @ComcastCares helping cable customers (even those that don’t use Comcast), but there are other examples. Dell has many employees (like @LionelatDell) who are tweeting about various things, but who are always happy to help a customer. @GEICO is another example.
   • How to Do It: Keep a search stream on keywords like your company’s name. If you see someone complaining or talking about a problem, reach out and see how you can help. Also make sure to publicize the fact that your company offers Twitter customer service support on your site.
2. Find Out What People Are Saying About Your Brand: Curious what people think of you? Check Twitter. You’ll get the good, the bad and the ugly, but you can handle it. Use this as an opportunity to respond publicly to any false claims, and make good on fixing the true ones.
   • How to Do It: Again, search your company. Assign someone in your company to keep an eye on this and quickly respond to any negative feedback. Also respond to positive feedback. Consider offering a gift or special discount to your brand evangelists on Twitter.
3. Introduce New People to Your Product: People can’t buy your product if they don’t know about it. Twitter is a great place to talk about what you sell, but beware: talking too much about your product will turn people off.
   • How to Do It: Inject mention of your product where appropriate. For example, if someone is bemoaning their broken printer and you sell printers, tweet them a teaser that will get them interested in what you offer. DON’T constantly tweet out product promotion. It’s tacky.
4. Share Company News and Promotions: Twitter is today’s newsroom. Many people will never go to your site to click on your News page, so it’s a great tool to share what’s going on at your company. It’s also easy for people to click a link to visit a page on your site when you promote a sale.
   • How to Do It: Share links to press releases and blog posts with enticing titles to get people to click. If you’re having a sale, offer the benefit (“Get 10 books for the price of 3 and STILL put money back in your pocket”). Also consider offering a special discount only found on Twitter.
5. Keep Up with Live Events: One of Twitter’s earliest uses was at a conference. If you’re attending a conference or trade show, use Twitter and the hashtag designated for the event to keep up with sessions you don’t attend, and the latest Tweetup with your newest friends.
   • How to Do It: For every tweet you put out that relates to the event, use the designated hashtag so people can find it. You can also find relevant people to follow by checking the hashtag stream to see who’s there.
6. Make New Friends: The most fun use of Twitter is just making new friends. Whether you’re on for business or personal use, you can make some long-lasting friendships through tweets.
   • How to Do It: Search for your interests and see who else is talking about them. Join in the conversation where appropriate. Add people you enjoy following to your favorites list so you can see what they’re saying any time.
7. Find Job/Find Employees: It’s amazing how many people have found work through Twitter. If you’re looking for a job, follow Twitter profiles like FSwJobs or @work_freelance, which list jobs and descriptions daily.
   • How to Do It: If you need to hire, link on Twitter to a job description page. Ask people to retweet your job opening. If you’re looking for a job, search for keywords and job titles you want.
8. Conduct Research: The easiest way to get answers to questions is to ask them on Twitter. Want to know how people use Twitter? How many own iPhones? Own houses? Tweet it out.
   • How to Do It: Just ask a question. Make it one people want to answer, then document your responses.
9. Connect with Media Types: If you write press releases or look for media coverage in magazines, Twitter can be a great way to connect with journalists and editors.
   • How to Do It: Search to see if a particular editor is on Twitter. Follow him, and pay attention to his tweets. DON’T just jump in and ask him to write about you. When it makes sense, tell him you have a story you’d like to share and ask if he’s interested, how can you best contact him. He’ll either tell you he’s not interested or give you his email.

There are even more ways to use Twitter to grow your business. How are you using it?

Tumblr.

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If you haven’t heard of Tumblr, you will. The pace that it’s currently growing is similar to (if not greater than) the type of growth that Twitter experienced 2 years ago. The blog/microblog/community hybrid social media site is well on its way to hitting the mainstream soon. While its users and fans are often rabid, there is one entity that doesn’t give it much respect: Google. Search engines in general are frowning on ranking Tumblelogs well in their results pages because of Tumblr’s greatest strength: ease of content aggregation.

Simplicity, Thy Name is Tumblr

Anyone who has a Tumblr page can create 2 things extremely quickly: content and backlinks. One simply has to go through other Tumblr pages that the millions of users have created and click the “Reblog” button. They can add their own content to it in the form of notes, add tags, even adjust the URL. They also get a backlink from the source because whenever something is reblogged, a note with a link goes up at the source. Assuming that most bypass the notes and tags, it is possible to place content on your Tumblelog and a backlink in approximately 4 seconds. To put it into perspective, one of our clients currently runs 15 successful and content-rich Tumblelogs and spends less than 30 minutes a day keeping them maintained. This simplicity is one of Tumblr’s greatest strengths, if not THE greatest, but…

… Google Doesn’t Like It

Anyone who optimizes sites for Google knows there are 2 things that hold the most value for rankings: content and backlinks. Tumblelogs are set on subdomains of tumblr.com or on their own domains hosted by Tumblr. For most platforms, this is extremely useful in SEO as the search engines consider subdomains as their own unique website in many occasions. Blogger, a site that is owned by Google, has literally millions of subdomains that act as stand-alone websites where people can create theirblogname.blogspot.com and have that site rank well for their keywords. Tumblr does not have that luxury. Somewhere along the lines, Google and the other search engines realized that it would be not only possible but encouraged by Tumblr and other people duplicate content and generate backlinks. As a result, it takes a lot more effort to get the search engines’ attention for stronger rankings. Another factor that hurts Tumblr on the search engine is the lack of unique title tags for many of the pages. Those created as “Text” get the title of the story as the title tag, but pictures and videos share the same title tag as the homepage of their Tumblelog. We are currently testing to see if this lack of respect from the search engines applies to outbound links. If the links are tainted in some way, Tumblr’s usefulness in optimizing other sites is also reduced compared to other platforms. We will see, as we have several test Tumblelogs running. When we know for sure, we’ll post the results here.

Does It Matter?

If you’re getting into Tumblr for SEO purposes to either achieve rankings directly or to use Tumblr as a linking tool, there are other similar free blogging and microblogging platforms that are superior. If you’re getting into Tumblr because you want to share and find content, then Tumblr is ideal. The community aspect combined with the ease of use and maintenance make Tumblr a prime site through which to have fun, share, and network. Does Tumblr matter? It all depends on how you want to use it.

Is Facebook the Future of Business ?

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Is facebook the future of business? In the early days (just a few short years ago), companies diligently created web pages and worked hard to drive customers to look at their ‘online brochure’. Then came the day of the opt-in. Many businesses asked the question – What if we could give something of value to someone visiting our site and they would leave their details, meaning we could follow up with them and try to sell our service. To this day, there are many companies, particularly offline that still haven’t mastered this strategy! That then went a step further and the squeeze page was created. A one page website, with lots of text and images telling you all the great reasons you should leave your name and email address to get your free gift, which eventually has become simply an opt-in form with a big call to action. All the text and images are saved for the sales page these days. In the middle of all of this blogs arrived, allowing people to talk about their journey, their life, their interests and anything else they could think off! All of a sudden it wasn’t just celebrities or politicians that had voices anymore, John round the corner had his own personal soapbox! All of these strategies however, were missing one vital component and that was ‘connection’! In order to drive traffic to your website, blog, squeeze page, you have to spend either a lot of time or money or both on all the varying traffic generation strategies and traditional marketing methods. This will get people to view what you have on offer, but it is only at this stage can you begin to build a relationship. In 2004, some college students created something to connect with their friends. Facebook fast became a great site for connecting with old friends and colleagues and suddenly being able to chat openly and freely with like-minded people from all over the globe. It completely squashed sites such as Friends Reunited (remember that!). Sometime over the last couple of years, businesses on and offline have started to realize the power of creating relationships before selling anything and sure enough facebook is becoming an amazing tool for business. I’m going to take it a stage further and state that I believe that Facebook will become the tool for business. People buy from people, that’s a saying we’re all very familiar with and that’s the power of Facebook. You can begin to create a relationship with your customer instantly. The moment they click to become a friend or a fan, you can easily and quickly speak to just them, personally and with great effect. Not only that, but the fact they’re having a conversation with you, then shows up in front of all their friends, who also want in on the action, then all those conversations show in front of all their respective friends and so it goes on. Very quickly your reputation, services, products are being seen by thousands of people, without you having spent a penny on keyword campaigns, advertising, direct mail etc. The beauty of a facebook fan page is that you can now have your squeeze page as your welcome tab. Meaning you can offer a valuable free resource for all those visiting your page and start creating a relationship immediately. The challenge I have discovered is that due to the air of mystery that still surrounds fan pages, companies are charging the earth to build your fan page for you and even more to create your fan page squeeze page – in some cases up to dollarsignr1000!!! This is something you can do yourself in under 10 minutes for FREE. It’s not rocket science and I will show you exactly how to do it in my FREE Ebook and Video series, ‘Create Your Own Fan Page in Under 10 Minutes for FREE!’