http://www.seomanchester.org.uk Free Traffic - More Customers Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:34:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-bubble-ads-causing-concern.html http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-bubble-ads-causing-concern.html#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:41:30 +0000 admin http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/?p=1331 New Google Bubble Advertisements The new ads that began to appear in the business bubble info boxes a couple of weeks ago have caused a real stir. Many SEO professionals are claiming that in its goal to capitalise on every potential ad revenue stream Google has this time overstepped the mark. The ad bubbles look like this: where the bubble info for Manchester based SEO company I-COM shows an ad for a competing company. Does this mean that Google are [...]


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]]> http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-business-pages.html/feed 0 http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/manchester-local-search-domination.html http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/manchester-local-search-domination.html#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:36:18 +0000 admin http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/?p=1294 Manchester Local Search Domination Following on from my Google Places Case Study I thought it would be useful to demonstrate how it is possible for a local business, selling a product or service, to grab a fair percentage of the Google search results. The case study showed how we set about gaining high rankings for a local tiler with particular emphasis on the areas of Manchester and Cheshire. The main keyword targeted was ‘Tiler Manchester’ and if you perform a [...]


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]]> http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/seo-manchester-blog/feed 0 http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/new-google-plus-business-pages.html http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/new-google-plus-business-pages.html#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:05:16 +0000 admin http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/?p=1279 Google Plus Business Pages Now Open Finally, businesses are being invited to participate in the new Google+ Pages program. Starting today and continuing over the next two days, businesses will be able to create Google+ pages using the Create A Page tool (as long as they already have a regular Google+ account). Starting at the create a page point you’ll be asked to create a page in one of five categories: Local Business or Place Product or Brand Company, Institution [...]


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]]> http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-business-pag.html/feed 0 http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-places-feedback-button.html http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-places-feedback-button.html#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:00:16 +0000 admin http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/?p=1269 New Feedback Button On Google Places Preview Whilst writing the blog post this morning about the new updates to Google Places I noticed that a new Feedback button has appeared on the Places page previews that appear when you mouse over the double arrow (see below). The colour of this Feedback link is, as you can no doubt guess, grey which does make it rather difficult to spot. Clicking on the link takes you directly to the Places page for [...]


]]> http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/google-places-feedback-button.html/feed 0 http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/latest-google-places-changes.html http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/latest-google-places-changes.html#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:28:30 +0000 admin http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/?p=1251 New Google Places Layout And More You may have noticed that in the last few days there have been some changes made to the layout, design and features of Google Places.  The main changes are: 1) The marker pins are now grey instead of red (the pins change to red when you hover your cursor over them). The Adwords Express Ads are also grey instead of the old blue (they change to blue when moused over). 2) The marker pins [...]


]]> http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/latest-google-places-changes.html/feed 0 http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/importance-online-reputation-management.html http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/importance-online-reputation-management.html#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:01:57 +0000 admin http://www.seomanchester.org.uk/?p=1245 Case For Online Reputation Management See this BBC news release which highlights the need for constantly monitoring your online reputation. This tells the story of a computer specialist in Bridgnorth who had a false review posted about him on his Google Places listing accusing him of being a thief and a paedophile It has taken the man 18 months to get it removed by Google during which time he estimates he has lost 80% of his local business. The moral [...]


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