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When traffic being LESS can be a GOOD thing

Date: 9th February 2010
Comments: 1 Related Categories: Google
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One of the things I talk about a lot is increasing traffic to your website, but I’ve recently had a conversation with a client in which I had to remind him that less traffic can actually be a GOOD thing!

Let me explain. Getting lots of traffic to a website is great – it’s great for the stats, great for the ego and great if keeping your job revolves around how many people visit your website. Yep, great. But it’s NOT great if that traffic isn’t buying. Or if that traffic costs you a lot of time / money / effort. Or if that traffic doesn’t stick around, or never comes back.

Poll your customers for new keywords ideas

Date: 8th February 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Cool Tools, Freebies, Google, Key Phrases
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It’s not always easy knowing which keywords and phrases to target when optimising your website – and as I say in my latest blog over on Birds on the Blog, it’s all too easy to fail to see beyond high traffic and high competition phrases.

So why not try asking other people what THEY would use to search for you? This great tool from Seed Keywords allows you to set up a scenario (eg “If you were searching for a website that sells XXXXX, what would you type in to Google?”) and then invite people to contribute, anonymously.

Have you developed your ‘Circle of Credibility’?

Date: 7th December 2009
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Articles, Blogging, Content, Google, Social Networking, Tracking, facebook, twitter
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I’ve been talking about this for a while, but this is the first chance I’ve had to put thoughts into words properly, so hopefully it will ring a few bells with some of you!

We’re all pretty much aware by now that one of the first things a potential client does when considering working with you is to ‘Google’ you – they’ll head off to google and type in your company name, maybe your director / owner’s name, and probably look through a few listings to see what others are saying about you.

“I want a blog that’s at the top of Google before I do any work on it – and I want it to be free”

Date: 1st November 2009
Comments: 11 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies, Google, No no no!
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I received the following request this morning:

I am looking to start a blog that is free (or very cheap) to run, is easy to edit and write on and add photos etc.

I want this blog to be fully search engine optimised, so it comes up close to the top of google for all relevant search terms as well.  I also want some ad space on the site so I can start earning straight away.

Is there such a thing as a Google Authorised Adwords Reseller?

Date: 16th October 2009
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Google
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This question is popping up more and more in my inbox – and the answer is yes.

Google tells us:

There are five Authorised Google AdWords Resellers in the UK:

There is one Authorised Google AdWords Reseller in Ireland:

  • Yodel
  • These companies are authorised by Google to resell Adwords to you, and they are the only companies that can claim to be an authorised Google Adwords reseller.