Canterbury Florist is a client of ours who delivers flowers to Canterbury, and the whole of Sydney for that matter.
The major trouble with their website, and business, is that they rely entirely on sales from people going past their shop, and from Yellow Pages. What they really need to do is have some serious visibility in Google [...]
Australian Radio Stations, is a new client of our who are having some massive issues with the ranking of their website. There are a number of reasons of this, and they are as follows:
Site not indexed by Google and other search engines
Poor visibility of content on homepage
No SEO strategy, until now
Great URL for searches, but [...]
We just did a great article on how to How To Put Twitter Testimonials On Your Florist Website. We also chat about the benefits of having testimonials on your website to current and future customers. It is a very detailed article that even goes into widget design and colours. It is definitely worth a read, especially [...]
FaceBook announced recently that they hit a massive milestone of 750 million users. I, as I am sure some would believe, would think it significantly lower than that given the amount of people who would have accounts that lay dormant.
What is undeniable though is the 200 million Tweets coming from Twitter on a daily basis. Even [...]
How To Improve You Google Rankings? This, without a doubt, is one of the most common questions asked by business owners not matter whether you are a Mum & Dad business based in Sydney, Australia, or you are a multi national enterprise. So, below is a very simple overview on how to better rank in [...]
Google has been recently testing extending ad headlines/title for ads appearing above the search result pages. For some ads, description line 1 will be moved to the headline and separated by a hyphen. As a result, some top placement ads will have longer headlines. However, for the ads to appear with extended headlines, each description [...]
PPC campaign for local businesses can be a bit different from the other larger businesses. For most local businesses, especially to start, I recommend using a geo-modified keyword campaign and then moving into setting up another campaign which is more of a keyword driven campaign rather than a geographically driven campaign (from a keyword standpoint). [...]
Greenhills Florist, Maitland, recently listing on a clients website florist directory. Our job is to get their clients Showcase Listing indexed by Google and other search engines. The hope is that the florist will be found in the following ways:
If someone looking to send flowers searches Google with the search terms florist, flowers Maitland
Some looking [...]
A major client of our needs us to index a category in their directory called Tamworth Florist. The Tamworth Florist category is a new category in their directory and one of many up and coming ones for Western NSW.
What does indexing actually mean? Put simply, it is when Google or other search engines visit a website, read [...]
You may not have noticed that Google recently did an update to Google Chrome, which curiously coincided with the launch of Google +.
So what is Google +? Google +1 is Google’s latest attempt to take on Facebook, it is an interesting concept that takes the challenge right up to Facebook and other social networking websites.
From [...]
Flowers n Lace is a Cairns florist who recently signed up to a showcase listing on a client of ours florist directory website. Due to them signing up to this level listing we are providing the clients, of our client, a full SEO tune of their listing. This SEO tuning includes:
Keyword research relevant to the Cairns area
Keyword research within [...]
Need a Gold Coast Florist to fill your flower order?
Yes, yet another florist category that needs indexing by Google and other search engines. It is our job at Local SEO to help expedite the indexing process for our client. Being an especially competitive search term ‘Gold Coast Florist’ will be yet another big challenge for [...]
Looking to send flowers to the Northern Beaches of Sydney? Search for Northern Beaches Florists in Sydney, Find Me A Florist has over 38 florist business listings in the area all of which offer same day delivery to the area.
As you can see we are wanting to get a new category indexed for a client [...]
Local SEO Advice just did some crafty updates to Flowers On The Coasts’ Showcase listing. The updates included:
A complete rewrite of business description targeting the following heavily researched keywords – Gosford florist, florist Gosford, flowers Gosford, Gosford flowers
Strategic placement of keywords in content
Targeting local SEO we tuned contact details
Wrote meta tags with SEO in mind
Reconstructed URL’s
This [...]
Church Street Florist is a Parramatta florist who is a client of ours looking for a directory rankings boost. So, we are going to give them a serious SEO boost. We will do this in a number of ways:
Rewrite content on website and directory with SEO and keywords in mind
Conduct details keywords research
Write all meta descriptions with [...]
Flowers On The Coast is a Gosford Florist that has recently signed up to a Showcase Listing with a client of our Find Me A Florist. As a part of the agreement they have with people who sign up to a highest level listing, they employ us to further SEO tweak each listing. This has [...]
Kathy’s Creative Flowers is a client, of a client of ours who recently added a Showcase listing to the biggest and only florist directory in Australia. They are a Port Macquarie florist who has been servicing the Mid-North Coast of NSW of many years and has built an excellent reputation in the area for the [...]
Looking for a reliable list of Southport Florists? Search Find Me A Florist to find the florist that suits you best. Search and post reviews on your favourite florists, not only in QLD, but the whole of Australia.
A client of ours is really keen to get the rankings going for their florist directory, more specifically a new category titled Gold Coast Florists. So far, we have give a major SEO tune to the following categories:
Sydney
Newcastle
Maitland
Taree
Townsville
Wollongong
Cairns
We have been working on the website directory for around 6 weeks and we are already getting some [...]
We just wrote an article for a client titled Getting The Most Out Of A Showcase Listing For Google Searches. The article is obviously aimed at florists who decide to upgrade their listing from a free listing to a showcase listing. The article talks about the following:
The benefits of a showcase listing in terms of [...]
Learn how to create trust with your website customers with our latest article on Find Me A Florist, the informative article talks about the following issues in relation to gaining more sales, and increasing your conversion rate:
The importance of contact details and where to place them
ABN, customers like to know you are truly an Australian [...]
Just doing an SEO tweak test for Lilifields Flower Merchants who own a florist in Paddington, Sydney.
We have created a test URL just to see if we can get their free listing indexed in Google and other search engines. The URL is quite general in its description so it will be a challenge.
Flowers On The Coast is a new Showcase level listing for a client of ours who is located in Gosford. They are a Gosford Florist who services the whole of the Central Coast of NSW. Flowers on the coast falls in the category titles Gosford Florists is one of thirty or so florists in the [...]
A client of ours wants up to give an SEO tune up to a new listing that was recently uploaded called Church St Florist Parramatta. If you want to send flowers to anyone on Parramatta, or anyone in Sydney for that matter, choose Church Street Florist in Parramatta.
We recently took on Bankstown Security as a new client, who is in dire need of direction in terms of their SEO, copywriting and their choice of keywords.
Bankstown Security recently launched a new security website to go their business and they specialise in the following:
Security guards
Patrols
Monitoring
CCTV
Security consultation
Cash security services
Alarms
The real issue is that they are impossible to [...]
I opened Google Chrome yesterday to search ‘sydney florists‘ & ‘eastern suburbs florists‘ and I was astounded to find that they have changed the way their search results look. Was it something I did? A setting I changed? Unfortunately not, the changes seem real, but hopefully just Google Chrome trialling a new look result.
This is the way the search results in [...]
We had a new client approach us this morning wanting us to expedite the indexing process for yet another category created via Find Me A Florist business directory.
The targeted category is titled Mackay Florists, and obviously lists all the florists in Mackay. Some of the florists listed are as follows:
Mackay Florist Shop
Deborah’s Flowers
Fourways Florist
Hamiltons
Lisa’s Flowers
Searching [...]
Searching For Wollongong Florists just got easier with the creation of Find Me A Florist business directory.
If you Google ‘wollongong florists’ there are 1000’s of search results relating to florists in Wollongong and surrounding areas, however, many of the search that appear of the first 2 pages are not even florists based in Wollongong. This [...]
Armidale Florists is another new category that our clients has asked us to get indexed by Google and other search engines like Bing and Yahoo.
The way will will do this is as follows:
Create a back link from this article
List the category on Hotfrog
Create a back link from Twitter
Create another back link from LinkedIn – why [...]
When attempting to get a a category, like Parramatta Florists or the like indexed in Google and other search engine you must strive to get as many back links as possible. And, as such, you must link your category from such sites as Hotfrog, truelocal, or any other citation site.
In the case, as mentioned above, [...]
We just created a category on a clients directory titles Epping Florists and we are wanting to speed up the indexing process by Google, which is why we are writing this article about it. Linking the category from this article will, as mentioned, dramatically speed up search engines indexing. This means, that the directory will [...]
We wrote a very simple article for a client today on how to increase your conversion rate through simply adding the following:
Photos of your shop from the outside, showing your signage etc.
Photos of all your florists/employees
Photos of your employees making bunches of flowers
These, of course, are very simple things to do to your florist website, [...]
We just wrote an article for a client of how florists can increase their website sales conversion rate. Whether you are a florist, a Doctor, or a plumber with a website it is worth a read. Free advice is good advice.
The article talks about the importance of properly displaying r your contact details and how that can [...]
In our opinion, a site map is one of the most important parts of your website, in terms of SEO. In short, a site map is, to Google and other search engines, exactly that – a map to your website, to how pages are categories, and gives directions to people wanting to search your website.
One of [...]
Have you hear of keywords? Do you know what they are? How would you choose the right keywords for you florist website?
We recently wrote a very good article all about choosing the right words for your florist website recently that is definitely worth a read.
The article briefly talks about what are keywords and how to choose the [...]
Unique Content is one of the most important parts to achieving a good Google search rank, it is also one of the most underestimated. In fact, you can have thousands of back links, and the best website in your industry and you may still rank poorly with bad and hard to understand content for your products.
We are [...]
Are You A Florist Look To Increase Sales? I don’t imagine any florist in Australia would say no to that question.
So, if you are a florist, own a florist website, and you are curious about how to increase your conversion rate, we are doing a series of articles for a client that you MUST read.
In [...]
I just found a post of Find Me A Florist, I just thought I would share it. The article is put simply to help florists rank their websites better in Google and other search engines.
The jury is still out on whether image tags have any relevance, time will tell.
Toowoomba Florist is a local florist that needs some help with their Google Places listing, “desperately” in their own words.
For around two years Toowoomba Florist appeared in Google Places ranked number one for the following searches:
Flowers Toowoomba
Toowoomba Florists
For some unknown reason, a few months ago, they simply vanished off Google Places. Although they rank #1 [...]
Curl Curl Florist is a Northern Beaches florist who has a state of the art online ordering system where you can order flowers online, from anywhere in the world, at any time of the days.
Like most Curl Curl florists, they find it extremely difficult to compete with online florists in terms of Google and other [...]
A Darlinghurst florist, Lily’s approached us late last week to give their homepage an SEO tweak. Given that their is some serious competition in Darlinghurst for florist, it was going to be extremely challenging to get them a good Google rank.
The is also to get their Find Me A Florist rank indexed in Google. While we are at it, [...]
Looking for a local Dee Why florists? Most people who are struggle to find local florists to help them with their flower order. Find Me A Florist offers people looking for local florist in Australia a place to look for florists and to post or read reviews about florists.
Local SEO Advice has taken a major [...]
Are you looking for a Double Bay florist but not having any luck? Try Find Me A Florist to search for a local florist going to Double Bay.
Look at a small SEO tweak for a business directory website. We are also trying to index all pages and listing within the website. We are working on [...]
Are you looking forward to Mother’s Day but are you struggling to find a local florist to help you with your flower order? If you are located in the Hills Shire and you are looking for Dural florists check out Find Me A Florist.
Of course this business directory came to us trying to optimise their [...]
Lily’s Dulwich Hill Florist recently listed on a florist directory and really wants their business directory listing to get indexed by Google. We are going to attempt this two ways:
Generate some quality back links for the business listing, using the unique URL that Find Me A Florist gives its customers
Get the category Dulwich Hill Florists
Art Of Bloom is a Sydney CBD Florist who we are attempting to indexed for a client. More to the point, we are trying to get the category that the florist lies within indexed. For Art Of Bloom it would be highly beneficial if they were to upgrade their business listing to a paid listing [...]
Kingscliff Florist 2487, in Far Northern NSW, is yet another florist who has countless troubles ranking well in Google search results and in Google Maps.
Yet again a search for ‘kingscliff florist’ in Google shows a plethora of results that are mainly online florist and located nowhere near Kingscliff – so the challenge was to leapfrog [...]
Darwin Florist Shop is a Northern Territory florist that needs a little help from our SEO team. Our clients requests are never usually that complicated in terms of what they want, in fact, they all want the same thing; and that is to rank higher in Google search results.
The problem with most big cities around [...]
We are going to try something a little different and, if successful, will be quite a coup for our business. The challenge is simple in theory but unknown in practice – we are attempting to get out client, Find Me A Florists’ websites florist reviews to be picked up by Google Places. This is a request [...]
Bendigo Florist Shop has had some real Google rankings dramas of late, so they recently employed Local SEO Advice to help them out.
The challenge was to:
Gather some quality back links
Rewrite the content within their website
Conduct some keyword research
Strategically place keywords within their website
Redesign their categories with keywords in mind
Build a contact us page
Create a Google [...]
There are thousands of suggestions on the web with tips and tricks about how to rank higher in Google, one such way is to gather back links for your website. This can be an onerous task to say the least, it can also be costly, and time consuming.
The quickest and safest way, in terms of white hat SEO, is [...]
Yet another Sydney, Bondi florist comes to Local SEO Advice in need of a rankings increase, such is the competition in Bondi & the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
Rankings deficiencies are usually due to factors like:
No real content or duplicate content
Spelling mistakes, poor grammar & sentence structure
No sitemap
No ‘Contact Us’ page
No back links
No adherence to keywords relevant to location of business
Well, [...]
Launceston Florist Shop, a good business with great flowers but really struggling to get good search rankings in Google, just like all our clients. Previous to coming to us for the search terms ‘florist launceston’ and ‘launceston florist’ there was no trace of their website, even on page 10 of Google and other search engines.
After [...]
Hobart Florist Shop approached Local SEO Advice recently to boost their ailing rankings in Google, and their non-existent rank in Google Places.
After a lengthy site assessment, we came up with the following recommendations:
Committed to significant changes in terms of keywords
List of various florist directories
Contact Us Page
More visible contact details, including local phone number
Applying keywords, correct [...]
Find Me A Florist Site Map is a web page on one of our new clients websites that we are attempting to get indexed by Google today.
The reason for this is that they want a get all the categories indexed within their directory, without having them all displayed in their homepage where it has, until now, been messing [...]
We took on a client by the name of Balgowlah Florist last week. The client is extremely hopeful that we could give their organic Google search results a real lift. We plan on doing a number of SEO tweaks to kick start the process. Things like:
List in Hotfrog
List in Find Me A Florist
Create a contact [...]
With Adelaide being the fifth largest city in Australia its no wonder Adelaide Florist is competeing with so many florists vying for top spot in the Google and Google Places ranks
Some of the ways we’re helping them reach this goal is by:
rewriting some of their content with keywords
Adding directory listings
Their ranking will start to improve [...]
Find Me A Florist, a client of ours, has just plugged in a useful ‘Blog’ module onto their business directory website. We encouraged this, certainly initially, to generate good quality content. There first article talks about how to place a unique URL that the directory gives you into your Google Places business listing. To be honest, [...]
Keyword research & placement
Category structure in line with keywords
Copywriting of content
Are just some of the elements we have used to help Darwin Florist with the search engine ranking.
Brisbane Florist has approached us with the goals of creating a Google business listing & have it rank well for anyone who searched “Brisbane Florist”.
They also wanted us to locally tune their websites content, keywords & page titles so that they would also rank number one in the organic search results.
The [...]
One thing we see all too often is – Duplicate content – repeated words, and Eastlakes Florist is another client of ours who we discovered had an abundance of these within their site which was causing them to rank poorly in all search engines.
After a fair bit of re-writing their content Eastlakes Florist is now [...]
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We recently bought a number of Machines from Digital Guru in Sydney & they are working fantastically well for what they are.
I just wanted to give [...]
We have been working with Dural Florist Shop which is located 35kms north/west of the Sydney CBD for some time now, they came to us needing an online presence.
What we have done for them has been quite a lengthly process but we are pleased with the resultst that Dural Florist Shop is receiving in the [...]
We were recently approached by Dulwich Hill Florist to help them with their Google Places rank, which is non-existant
We will be doing quite alot of work on their website including:
Keyword research & placement
Category structure in line with keywords
Copywriting of content
Stay posted and we will let you know how its going.
Gawler Florist is a flower shop like no other in Adelaide (call 08 8005 8514), or the whole of South Australia. This is because they have the most sophisticated online ordering system that is incredibly safe and secure to use. If you choose to order online you can do so with the following payment methods:
JCB [...]
Lily’s Bundaberg Florist is a Queensland flowers shop delivering fresh flowers to the Bundaberg area daily. Lily’s Bundaberg Florist gets fresh flowers in every day of the week so the customer is always getting the best quality flowers delivered to the special someone.
So, don’t wait, call them today and order flowers on (07) 5315 4286.
We have been approached by 2 Canberra florist to perform an SEO overhaul on their websites. Rather than talking about them separately I thought I would discuss them in the one article.
Belconnen Florist & Civic Florist both came to us wanting to rank their rankings up a notch due to the heavy presence of online & [...]
Call Batemans Bay Florist today for affordable, great value for money & gorgeous flowers. Batemans Bay Florist delivers flowers daily to the South Coast of NSW from only $10. They have a bunch of flowers to suit every budget, their flowers start from a very competitive $49.
Batemans Bay Florist delivers to the following areas:
Ulladulla
Milton
Mollymook
Nowra
Bawley Point
Order [...]
Mittagong Florist is a Southern Tablelands flower shop who is the most popular in the area. They have an easy to use website that you can order flowers online from.
Their payment options are:
Visa
MasterCard
American Express
PayPal
Mittagong Florist also delivers to Berrima & Bowral.
Cal today to place your order on 1800 466 534
Acton Florist offers great bunches of flowers at affordable prices, the problem is that their website is not ranking in Google. In fact, let me rephrase, it was ranking but is not ranking now. Upon investigation this was for the following reasons:
Virtually no content on homepage, and what content there was, was duplicated & to [...]
Beaudesert Florist, is located roughly 70 kilometers West of the Gold Coast. Rankings issues, no doubt, prompted this QLD flowers shop to contact us and request help with SEO and, ultimately, better search engine ranking – “especially in Google” was the exact instruction from the owner of the shop.
Local SEO Advice embarked on some well [...]
Shepparton Florist, located in Victoria & close to Bendigo, is a flowers shop that has struggled with search engine ranks for years. The search term ’shepparton florist’ is flooded with online florist from all over Australia & very few local businesses are even in the top 20 search results in Google. In fact, it is [...]
Agnes Banks Florist is a florist in the Hawkesbury are of Sydney, NSW.
If did not know Agnes Banks is approximately 70 kilometers from Sydney CBD and, due to its location, and is governed by the city of Hawkesbury & Penrith. Agnes Banks is a part of Western Sydney. The suburb of Agnes banks is connected to the [...]
Located in Sydney, Drummoyne Florist is a new client of ours needing help with their SEO to increase both Google & Goole Places rankings due to a saturation of florists in the surrounding suburbs
Local SEO Advice will be doing a lot of work on their website including:
Keyword research & placement
Category structure in line with keywords
Copywriting [...]
Western Sydney contains around 300 florists from Penrith, to Auburn, to Parramatta & the flowers vary incredible throughout the region due to the cultural diversity or the area and peoples tastes.
Our newest client, Find Me A Florist, has hired us to accelerate the indexing process of their website in Google and other search engines. This is a [...]
Rockhampton Florist Shop is a far Northern Queensland flowers shop that send flowers daily to the local area and beyond.
Local SEO Advice did the following:
Keyword research & placement
Category structure in line with keywords
Complete site build
Copywriting of content
Google Places listing
After the completion of the website, and now that is is ranked #1 in Google, the business [...]
Dover Heights Florist have came to us with some rankings issues they need help with.
The main two being:
Poor listing in Google search results
NO Google Places business listing
What they want:
To get Dover Heights Florist a Google Places rank
SEO tune their Places listing so they are on the first page of Google for a ‘dover heights [...]
We recently welcomed Double Bay Florist to our list of clients and set about analysing their website to determine why they are not appearing in the Google’s SERP results, what we found was:
Duplicate content – repeated words
No local contact number on homepage
Over optimized for keyword search
Using bold & underlining text – very effective way to highlight [...]
Port Macquarie Florist now, thanks to Local SEO Advice, has online ordering that is really simple to use & very safe for it’s customers. We installed payment methods so that customers can use their credit cards, and they can pay via PayPal.
So many people still like to call & get advice from professional florists on [...]
Maitland Florist is a Hunter Valley, NSW, flowers shop that has a personal approach to flowers. Maitland Florist specialises in bunches and arrangement of flowers to suit every occasion. View our flowers in store at - 13 Mitchell Dr, East Maitland NSW 2323.
You can order flowers by phone by calling (02) 4016 9660, also to get [...]
Darwin Florist, located in the Northern Territory, also close to Darwin Private Hospital sell gorgeous bunches & arrangement of flowers for every taste & budget. Darwin Florist has a new and very simple online ordering system where your can order from at any time of the day, from anywhere in the world at the push [...]
Coffs Harbour Florist,on the NSW Mid North Coast, is a florist that deliver to the local area & Coffs Harbour daily. Their flowers are as amazing as they are ‘value for money’. Coffs Harbour Florist has bunches of flowers starting from $49 and the cheapest delivery in Coffs Harbour.
Coffs Harbour Florist came to us as they wanted [...]
Dubbo Florist came to Local SEO Advice with some rankings issues they could not sort out. The main two were:
They had no Google search results rank
They had no Google Places business listing
The Goals:
Get Dubbo Florist a Google Places rank
SEO tune their Places listing so they are on the first page of Google for a ‘dubbo [...]
Ballarat Florist is yet another florist who has decided to list their flower shop in a new directory site called Find Me A Florist & they are wanting to boost its ranking in Google search engine results.
As a part of our service we should also give them a plug:
Ballart Florist Shop
Web: www.ballaratflorists.com.au
ph: 03 5309 0407
Dee Why Florist is yet another client who came to us looking to not only increase their SERP rank but to also increase their Google Places rank.
We discovered a few issues which we quickly tweaked:
No directory listings
Content relating to ‘about us’ was poor
Little targeted category structure
As a result they are consistently ranking higher and [...]
Have just welcomed another new client Narrabeen Florist, located on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.
This local florist is looking to increase their exposure through local SEO tweaking, a localised Google Adwords campaign, and by embarking on detailed Google Places listing SEO tweak.
A few things we will be focusing on for them is
Strategic location [...]
Like most of our florist clients, Armidale Florist came to us looking to increase their SERP rank and to increase their Google Places rank.
Some of the issues we tackled for this local SEO tune up are as follows:
No contact us page on website
No content related to ‘about us’
No local phone number on website
Poor use of [...]
A client of ours, Townsville Florist, came to us again recently due to an issue with their Google Places rank dropping from rank A, to rank F) in Google Places. This may not seem like a huge slide in the overall scheme of things this represents a 40% dip in turnover which is huge – [...]
Brunswick Heads Florist has a two dilemma’s on their hands:
No Google Places listing
No organic search ranking
Since taking on their business we have refined a number of issues on their website. Issues such as:
No local phone number on their homepage. This will help Google define Brunswick Heads Florist as a local business & will eventually rank them [...]
Another of clients, Redcliffe Florist, has been in the doldrums about their Google SERP rank. To be honest, I do not blame them as it is totally non-existent.
Upon analysing their website there are some things to consider when asking why they are not appearing in the Google’s SERP results:
Duplicate content – repeated words
Using bold & [...]
Sydney Florists, well, there are many of them both online and with actual bricks and mortar stores.
The online competition for the search term ‘Sydney Florists’ is fierce, in fact there are 430,000 competing sites for that keyword. Ranking well for this search is even made more difficult by the fact that Google Places results take up the first [...]
If you did not know Google just launched an overhaul of its algorithm, the idea being that it will take out its Content Farm. What is a Content Farm? Content Farms are very low quality websites built with the simple intention of raising revenue through avenues like sponsored links. We have all come across them in [...]
We are currently doing some SEO work for Townsville Florist. The job they wanted us to do is quite simple as they have a very good organic search already – they want us to boost the ranks of their directory listings. This is an interesting development for their business as it is hoped that this [...]
Alexandria Florist is a Local SEO Advice client that now sends flowers to the local area in Sydney.
They came to us with the express purpose of achieving a higher Google rank and, until now, have had a SERP rank of greater that 100 in Google. It is hoped that after some serious tuning for SEO they will [...]
Send Flowers – Given that the most of our clients are florists I wanted to give our loyal readers a little insight on how these types of businesses work & how, with our help, they penetrate the Sydney flower market.
The fantastic thing about an online florist is that you do not need to hold stock, [...]
We took on a new client last week whose frustration at losing their Seafolly rank finally pushed them to contact Local SEO Advice.
The Issue
Swanky & Swish has been ranking #3 for a search of ’Seafolly’ for some time and this equated to a good amount of sales and hits. The rank of 3 was dropping [...]
PageRank Boosting Links
While the debate ensues about how important PageRank is for your site and whether Google will continue updaing rankings, until the day comes when Google removes PageRank from their toolbar, people are going to care about their ranking in the 1 – 10 system.
PageRank is built by getting dofollow links from relevant pages with [...]
Google offers some called ‘Coupons’. Google Coupons are a great to offer your customers discounts who come to your business via Google Places.
Say, for example, you own a florist, and you want to encourage people to order online you may want to offer your customers a sweetener to order online in the form of chocolates [...]
An old client of ours, Townsville Florist, wanted to give a huge plug to a new directory listing site, for florists, called Find Me A Florist.
After close inspection, although very new and yet to be completed, this looks an extremely exciting proposition for the floristry industry.
There are a number of ways you can list your [...]
Find Me A Florist Online is a new client of ours that has set up a website with the express purpose of earning money through Adsense and using a new affiliate method by Commission Crusher. We have essentially hooked the whole website up, set up Adsense, written blog posts and given the site many basic [...]
We recently took on a new client called Down To Earth Living (dtl). Down To Earth Living have a fine and well established store in Kingscliff, NSW, and stock a huge range of natural and organic products. The mission: build an online store, SEO tweak & get it indexed and ranking ASAP.
Some of the brands [...]
As most of you will know we are working with over 40 clients at the moment which makes us incredibly busy, so busy in fact that we only have two Google accounts across all those clients – it would be impossible to have a log in for each clients.
Anyhow, last week I went to update [...]
Deep Linking is an extremely important part of the SEO process and it is something that all websites should strive to search out – we have done this successfully for our clients website Woolloomooloo Florist. If are deep linking ensure you have links arriving from as many locations as possible, however, making sure they are [...]
As a part of growing your business and outdoing your website competitors it is extremely important to analyse your opposition – this should also be a major part of your SEO, and search marketing strategy and will dramatically help you define your strength and weaknesses against competing websites. We recently did a major competitor analysis [...]
Social media marketing for your businesses website is not only an effective way to brand your business, it is an effective way in bringing in referral traffic to your website. Social media marketing is also a great way to spur in your websites organic search rankings and results. This is something we have done to [...]
It seems Google Places, yet again, it adding a new dimension to its listings with the advent, recently, of Google Hotpot.
Google Hotpot is an innovation that urges Google account holders to post reviews about local businesses over and above the usual reviews that layout that many of us have become used to. My gut feeling [...]
Some unethical experts around the world in SEO use fast tracking SEO techniques to try to bolster and improve your websites’ search engine rankings – this is referred to as ‘black hat’ SEO. This type of SEO is not only unethical, but it simply does not work in the long term, despite the short term [...]
Tynt Insight can be an effective tool for both SEO and link building but, how can it benefit you and how does it work?
Basically, if you have the Tynt Insight code inserted into your website, each time a visitor, or better still a competitor, copies your content and pastes it somewhere like a blog, an email or [...]
What is Google up to? Where are they heading with Google Places? My first thought is, “who knows”, because as much as I think I know about Google Places, I really know nothing – sounds very Socratic doesn’t it.
One thing I am certain of is that today Google Places has been experimenting heavily today with [...]
Adding Canberra Florist Shop to Google Places has been one of our biggest challenges, as Canberra is flooded with florists and flower shops – even with a central street address like London Circuit, and the phone number of (02)6100 6274 was and is no guarantee of a strong listing.
Anyhow, the listing was added around 5 weeks [...]
Has anyone ever heard of Qondio? If not, you should definitely look it up if you are looking to boost your backlinks, get your creative writing skills tuned, earn some reward points, then post your articles, then, in turn, boost the power of your backlink on their website. Makes sense huh…
Qondio is a brilliant idea [...]
As you may know Twitter launched what they call ‘Promoted Tweets’ earlier this year, this was to allow businesses to make more visible normal tweets that may appeal to a wider audience. The tweets appear, normally, at the top of search engines like Google and always have something in common with what users are looking for.
Yesterday, Titter [...]
A client of ours, Lily’s Florist Shepparton, recently asked me how I could improve their Hotfrog and Google Places listings. Pause…if I had the answer I would be a billionaire. However, there are a few little things I suggested, but probably the most important of these was to link back to your listing from you [...]
Using Additional Information In Google Places is something many of our clients do not use and is something vital to any good localised SEO campaign. That being said, I can understand to some degree why it is underused – it is just so confusing to some people with how it is formatted.
A good example of [...]
Flowers Hobart, which is also owned by the same client as Flowers Geelong was also just launched today, which has the same parameters, goals and dynamics as an earlier post. I will keep all of you up to date with the happenings.
Additionally our goal for this florist website is to penetrate the Hobart, Tasmania, local [...]
The latest client we are working with is Flowers Geelong which is a local florist that has been wanting to gain more exposure through local SEO tweaking, a localised Google Adwords campaign, and by embarking on detailed Google Places listing SEO tweak.
We will be doing the following things to expediate the process (there are many [...]
I typed the search term Toowoomba Building and Pest Inspections into Google just to see what sort of search results Google Places would provide when using an address that contains a letter – like 220B. I feel that Google gets a little lost when providing these sorts of results which is a little disappointing, especially [...]
We are all so hungry when it comes to developing an SEO strategy for a major business to chase links…links & more links. In the short term this is definitely one of the surest ways to increase your ranks, when combined with good content and many other things. But, what would happen in a few [...]
For the novices out there experimenting with Adwords and looking to reinforce their presence in their local area, Adwords now has some pretty tricky little things you can do to both boost your local search potential and to give searchers a better idea about what you sell. Further, this can now all be linked in [...]
The new Google Chrome is finally here, it is called Google Chrome Beta. The new version has improved speed and overall performance – if that is possible.
Google Chrome Beta also has the following cool features:
You will be able to use Google Chrome features in incognito mode
Initial integration Adobe Flash
Themes for homepage, startup, heaps of content [...]
Web Site SEO as some people call it, in fact you would not believe how many call it web site SEO, instead of website SEO. It seems that people are still coming to terms with search engine optimisation or is it optimization, I prefer the sooner after all we Australian.
Can you believe Google Keyword Tool [...]
Getting your SEO done in India, and you website for that matter, is all the buzz at the moment. Why, it is just so damn cheap.
Being cheap can be a big selling point for Indian SEO companies. Some of our clients get at least 10 emails a week from SEO companies in India pedalling various [...]
Learn SEO, is that really something that can be taught?
Anyway, I did a Google Keyword Tool search for the term ‘Learn SEO‘ and Google claims that in Australia the term received 260 searches last month. Why are Googles results for searches always round figures? I guess Google takes the libery to either round up, which [...]
Google and other search engine rank elevating links are there so as to give your keywords a boost. However, the key to getting good search rank boots using this method is to acquire ‘dofollow’ links on pages using your keywords in either anchor text or keyword phrases. Therefore if you want to highly SEO tweak [...]
Traffic Generating Links are not usually helpful to generating greater ranking by targeting a keyword/s, or help in any way on building your Google PageRank. What these links do is expose your website on higher traffic pages in hopes that the traffic from the site you are linked on will get you referral [...]
How To Add ALT Tags To Images, is it worth it when it comes to search engine optimisation? I feel the answer is still, like it was 5 years ago, a resounding YES. Here is why:
If somone of looking for a product like Sukin Moisturiser they are unfamiliar with visually, they are likely to do [...]
It seems Google Suggest has become far more localised of late, especially in Australia where Google’s roll-outs seem longer to come to fruition. To be honest I have not tried this out of my local area yet, but I am quite sure that it would be much different if I were doing the same search [...]
Does Google control our lives? I posted this article some time ago now, and upon reflection on my lates few posts I would say that Google certainly has a say in it. Take my client Newcastle Florist, I have been on a mission to get Newcastle Florist ranked in Google Maps (currently position D) and [...]
Website Load Time & Search Rank are now intertwined and vital in Google’s search ranking algorithm. It is understood that as many as 200 different things are taken into consideration with your websites rank in Google and now upload time is one of them. So, when considering improvement to your website using whitehat SEO techniques [...]
Googles march to world domination continues with a massive gain on profit for the start of 2010 with a 6.7 billion (USD) dollars in revenue, that is up 23% compared with the same time last year. The GFC obviously didn’t knock on Google’s door even though they had a decline on stock prices.
Most notable statistic [...]
As I said in an ealier post Google seems to have a new look – I can’t seem to find anyone else blogging about it yet. Is it just me or am I seeing things?
Points of difference:
More seemless adwords advertisements, although I have only shown a google maps search in image
More localised option below ‘hobart [...]
Now you see it, now you don’t. Google, it seems, launched a new look on Monday – at least in Australia. But, before I could take a closer look, it disappeared into thin air. Perhaps Google is doing some testing…
What I do remember from my brief glimpse was:
You can localise even further the search [...]
Black Hat search engine optimisation is usually means and defines some tricks your SEO consultant or yourself may do to speed up your rankings in what is considered an unethical manner.
Black Hat search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques usually comprise of a mix of the following:
The website and its content generates a feeling of a poor [...]
As you can by our list of clients one of our specialties is Florist SEO.
There are many tricks we use to give our clients better rankings in search engines on a local level, but, of course, many of those come at a cost. However, as a general guide, for those who are new florists to [...]
The SEO world is buzzing about the potential of Google Buzz. There isn’t really anything fancy about it, imagine a mix of Twitter and FriendFeed. The biggest point of difference between Google Buzz and other social networking platforms is that Google Buzz is integrated into your Gmail account – this is very handy indeed.
What is [...]
One of the most common errors I see amongst SEO professionals and people who own business websites is that in the link building process their link will look like www.localseoadvice.com.au when listed in directories, on affiliates sites or any other sites that may generate referrals back to your homepage.
SEO Tip 101 for building quality links [...]
General Words – these are a must not and may look like anothernonameseoblog.wordpress.com, remember it is also important to brand your product or service. You would be better using something like seotools.wordpress.com
Link To Search results – If you are discussing [...]
10 SEO Tips
Deep Linking – Spend lots of time searching out links that will point to as many pages as possible
Use BOLD – make bold the keywords on all your pages, do not overdo it though as it will look silly to a search engine and your reader. See here for an example, where the [...]
There are now some typical points, regarding search engine optimisation, that most SEO gurus tend to agree on, but on the other hand there is much debate about the some of the more insignificant things, that is our opinion should be done.
SEO techniques that apply to one website simply may not apply to another, every [...]
As each day goes by, we are gradually finding that mobile phone carriers are slowly phasing out ‘regular’ mobile phones – especially in Europe and the US, so it is bound to follow on in Australia too. Just walk into your local Vodafone store and you will be bombarded by with phones with some very [...]
Local SEO, or localised search engine optimisation is a method of marketing that is mostly overlooked by businesses in Australia, for reasons that are rather unknown – other than businesses simply do not even know it exists.
So, here are a few reasons why it is extremely important to optimise your business website for local search [...]
Have you ever wanted to quickly check the page rank of your website with Google Page Rank, without opening Internet Explorer? Well, now you can with the easy to use Google PR checker – the quick SEO tool.
In order to check pagerank of a single web site, web page or a domain name, please enter [...]
Google AdSense™, once you have set yourself up and have plenty of original content, will deliver Google Advertisements right to your website automatically. A little tip though, the more specific your topic or page is the highly quality of ads that will come your way – this obviously means more hits, more clicks and more [...]
Local Search Engine Optimization Optimisation Tips
Use your Google Keyword Tool to seek out commonly made spelling mistakes (especially towns and city name), these can be used to your advantage when optimising keywords
Think about where you are going to place your contact details, especially phone number and your address
Always put your postcode and state in contact [...]
Recently the all knowing Oxford Dictionary listed its new words for 2009, most of the words are born through the social media age and search. So, the Oxford University 2009 Word of the Year in: unfriend.
Unfriend – verb – means to remove someone you know from a social networking website. After I had a huge [...]
Understanding the Different Types of Keywords
Within the realms of search engine optimisation, keywords and often referred to as ‘keyword phrases’, and essentially means that combination of words a user types into a search engine to find things. Keyword phrases can also be a combination of two or three words like ‘organic skin care’, or ‘organic [...]
In the beginning of 2008 all the major search engines, and that includes Google, began to show a totally different interface at the very top of their respective search results pages for keywords that are locally-targeted or even “key phrases” too – for example Townsville Florist. The new look of the Google search results show [...]
It’s widely stated that narrative article writing is currently one of the significant promotional tools that should be employed to drive targeted traffic to your online business. Fortunately, article writing is now conjointly accepted method for marketers to get fresh content for his or her sites by writing themselves or by using article directories.
The desires [...]
Call To Action – Make your landing page count and tell your visitors what you want them to do. “Fill out this form to win”, “subscribe now and receive 5% off your first order”. Making these actions firm, without being overpowering, can have a dramatic impact on sales
Easy To The Eye Content – Interesting, logical [...]
