You can see by the Google search result that the Google Places has placed a makr on the map where the business is but it has not allocated a letter. I dare say that this would be different if the business owner had an address without a letter within it.

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 settings and language features
• HTML5 features including Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets and file drag-and-drop capabilities

Can you believe Google Keyword Tool actually suggests that the search term web site SEO gets 590 hits in Australia per month? Yet another rounded number by Google, I only with they would not round up or down, it would be so much more believable do you think…

Offsite Competitive SEO Elements Tips:

• Inbound links galore
• Get as many local listing as possible
• Tap into viral marketing
• Be a blogger
• Don’t be a twit, use Twitter
• Be a winner a use Google Business Listsing to promote your business
• Use page titles to win sales, see example for Alford Point Florist

seo india

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 marketing packages. One of the packages in particular 100 links per month, on high PR sites, for $445 – ongoing. Is this really so cheap?

For small businesses like most the answer to that question lies in this question; How much is your time worth? How long would it take you to sift through thousands of websites adding comments about how fantastic their blog article was. So on that note let us look at this simple equation:

100 link per month – takes 15 minutes to research link, then add it to blog site = 15 minutes
100 x 15 = 1500/60
= 25 hours

So, 25 hours a month it would take a website owner to do linkbulding at this level. If you earn 45$ per hour that is 25 hours x 45 = $1125 worth of your time per month.

Enough of the maths already, I am sure you get the point.

In conclusion, if you are time poor and run your own business there is a pretty good argument there to outsource your SEO and linkbuilding to India.

By the way, this is just another experiment to test the integrity of Google Keyword Tool, obviously the words I am keen to target are SEO INDIA. If you missed the earlier post about it, read it here. That being said the arguement is a fair one.

If you look at the example below you will see that I only typed in two letters and Google is already listing all things Bryon Bay (which is just down the road from our offices), including Byron Bay Accommodation, Byron Bay, Byron Bay employment, Byron Bay Blues Festival, Byron Bay weather and much more. Clever ain’t it. Has anyone got another example near where they live?

Anway, Newcastle Florist’s sales went through the roof,  and I mean blaistic, until for no reason at all the map listing vanished mid-week, suffice is to say sales went DOWN fast. Then, after 24 hours, the Newcastle Florist listing reapperaed in maps, sales went back up again.

Does Google control my clients life?

So an SEO tip for April is, if your website takes more than a few seconds to load, it’s definitaly slow, so make sure you fix it.

Most notable statistic is Paid Clicks – Aggregate paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our AdSense partners, increased roughly15% over the first quarter of 2009 and increased approximately 5% over the fourth quarter of 2009.

I only wish Google could get their keyword tool working accurately!

Points of difference:

• More seemless adwords advertisements, although I have only shown a google maps search in image
• More localised option below ‘hobart florist’ search you can see it
• Search articles and posts in the last few hours, 24 hours, weel, month or year. You can even search a custoime range of dates
• The Google artwork is different
• The page numbers at the bottom of screen even look different

See for yourself…

What I do remember from my brief glimpse was:

• You can localise even further the search results you receive by entering your city or town name in a box
• Searching by country is now a lot harder to spot but it is now on the left of the screen together with images and many other interesting options
• Most notably however, the Google Adwords advertisements are now moved much closer to the organic search results, meaning they are much harder to notice that they are advertisements. In fact, they now look much more like organic search results

My concern for the website owner is really the box that says enter your city. If this is selected my fear is that a Google search will lock out all other results. I will report more on this when the ‘mew look’ appears again. What does this mean for local SEO? I am quite sure it will become even more imprtant now.

If anyone has any ideas I am sure our readers would love to hear them.