Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Why oh why should I bother with Facebook, and Twitter as a business?

Why oh why should I bother with Facebook, and Twitter and all the blah blah blah...?

Well we believe 2 reasons, first of all it's an extension of your corporate identity, you can build audiences you previously could not. Post your messages, offers, good deeds etc and show what a nice company you are. 

The second is the advantage these sites are huge in terms of traffic. So much so Google has it's own dedicated team of robots looking at the sites 24/7. In terms of traffic ranking Facebook is pretty much the daddy, Google itself comes in 2nd. Twitter is down in 8th and Linked in is 12th. To find out more have a look at the top 500 sites here: http://www.alexa.com/topsites 

With such high traffic rankings these sites effectively give Google and other search engines direct links back to your site.. Increasing your traffic rank and giving Google Bot something to look at.

Well we hope that sorts that, if you need any more help with your search engine optimisation then let us know..


Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Recent SEO stuff

Hi Guys,

Going to be a brief post, I know we don't post regularly enough, but still hopefully what we do post is golden to you in some way!

At present we are helping sites compete on keywords such as wedding jewellery, bridal jewellery, pearl bracelets and crystal jewellery. Some of which are in their infancy and some of which are flying high at the top of Google. But we've started to notice a huge pattern with Google and Alexa. The link was always there and adjustments to the Alexa ranking helped maybe 5% in the overall scheme of things. Recently however the Alexa rankings seem to have a huge influence on Google pre and post Penguin.

For example, a recent key phrase has been want to sell my van, within 1 week of releasing the brand new site we had hit the top ten and experimented using Alexa rankings only. Ok the site was in order meta and content wise, but generally this only occurs after a good time after being launched.

Anyway, just a quick food for thought post. We hope you enjoyed.

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