A very quick update on the SEO project.
web site design swansea from position 125 to 95
website design swansea from 64 to 52
web design swansea from 74 to 51
swansea web design from 129 to 118
web designer swansea from 74 to 66
All positive - but still room for improvement!
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Friday, 2 January 2009
How to...Add goals on 43Things
See my previous post regarding 43Things.
As I said that I would add a 'How To' every Friday, I felt it a bit wrong to fall at the first hurdle. So, to get you started on the right track this is a mini guide to 43Things.
Step 1 - Visit www.43things.com
Step 2 - Click 'Sign Up'
It's the big blue button on the home page.
Step 3 - Fill in your details
It's not a big form, just enter your Username, Email, Password and the letters from the box. Click 'Create an account'.
Step 4 - Enter your goals
Simply write your resolution in the text box and click 'I want to do this'.
The website is so easy to use. You can add little diary entries to help you track progress and set reminders.
Complete your Goal
Once you have completed the goal select it and click 'I'm Done'. You get a congratulations message and the chance to help others by writing your story.
Cheer Others
When you find people and goals you want to support you can send them a cheer to help them along. So let us know if you set up an account and we'll come and support you.
Good luck!
As I said that I would add a 'How To' every Friday, I felt it a bit wrong to fall at the first hurdle. So, to get you started on the right track this is a mini guide to 43Things.
Step 1 - Visit www.43things.com
Step 2 - Click 'Sign Up'
It's the big blue button on the home page.
Step 3 - Fill in your details
It's not a big form, just enter your Username, Email, Password and the letters from the box. Click 'Create an account'.
Step 4 - Enter your goals
Simply write your resolution in the text box and click 'I want to do this'.
The website is so easy to use. You can add little diary entries to help you track progress and set reminders.
Complete your Goal
Once you have completed the goal select it and click 'I'm Done'. You get a congratulations message and the chance to help others by writing your story.
Cheer Others
When you find people and goals you want to support you can send them a cheer to help them along. So let us know if you set up an account and we'll come and support you.
Good luck!
Will you stick to your New Year's Resolutions?
Happy New Year!
It's that time of year again when everyone decides to give up smoking, lose weight or start exercising. Or read more, start a hobby, become successful...the options are endless. It's a time to be positive and look at new beginnings, so is it time for a new beginning for your website or does it just need a bit of a detox? If you know your website needs sorting out but aren't sure exactly what needs doing, here are a few New Year's Resolution ideas for you.
1. I will update my website once/twice a month/week/day
2. I will improve my search engine position
3. I will get a website!!!!
4. I will start selling online
5. I will review all of my website content regularly
6. I will make sure my website is compliant with all relevant legistation (bit of a mouthful I know, but worthwhile none-the-less!)
7. I will start marketing my website
8. I will consider my user's needs and get my website to fit
9. I will start a blog
10. I will use my website to win new business
Our Resolutions this year are:
1. To post to this blog at least twice a week, including a 'How To' every Friday
2. To keep Tweeting
3. To keep the website up to date, ineresting and informative
4. To add fun stuff, such as games and downloads.
And to make sure we keep them, I have set up an account at 43things.com
43Things is a website that allows you to 'List your Goals, Share your Progress, Cheer each other on'. Why not add your goals? Once they're written down they become a lot harder to ignore.
If you do decide on a website related resolution, please share it with us. Comment on this post or send me a tweet. If you need a bit more of a hand we are more than happy to help, give us a call today on 01792 222302 or email hello@picseli.co.uk to find out how we can help you stick to your resolutions.
Good Luck!
It's that time of year again when everyone decides to give up smoking, lose weight or start exercising. Or read more, start a hobby, become successful...the options are endless. It's a time to be positive and look at new beginnings, so is it time for a new beginning for your website or does it just need a bit of a detox? If you know your website needs sorting out but aren't sure exactly what needs doing, here are a few New Year's Resolution ideas for you.
1. I will update my website once/twice a month/week/day
2. I will improve my search engine position
3. I will get a website!!!!
4. I will start selling online
5. I will review all of my website content regularly
6. I will make sure my website is compliant with all relevant legistation (bit of a mouthful I know, but worthwhile none-the-less!)
7. I will start marketing my website
8. I will consider my user's needs and get my website to fit
9. I will start a blog
10. I will use my website to win new business
Our Resolutions this year are:
1. To post to this blog at least twice a week, including a 'How To' every Friday
2. To keep Tweeting
3. To keep the website up to date, ineresting and informative
4. To add fun stuff, such as games and downloads.
And to make sure we keep them, I have set up an account at 43things.com
43Things is a website that allows you to 'List your Goals, Share your Progress, Cheer each other on'. Why not add your goals? Once they're written down they become a lot harder to ignore.
If you do decide on a website related resolution, please share it with us. Comment on this post or send me a tweet. If you need a bit more of a hand we are more than happy to help, give us a call today on 01792 222302 or email hello@picseli.co.uk to find out how we can help you stick to your resolutions.
Good Luck!
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
The final SEO update for 2008
To round the year off on the great SEO experiment, the results are as follows:
web site design swansea from position 180 to 125
website design swansea from 133 to 64
web design swansea from 134 to 74
swansea web design from 143 to 129
web designer swansea from 131 to 74
Even for 'web site development swansea' we're at position 59.
But is it working? Are people getting to the website?
According to Google Analytics, 17.75% of our traffic is from Google organic searches for 'web development swansea', 'web design swansea' and 'web design company wales'.
We still have a bit more work to do...but it does look to me like content is definitely a big part of SEO work judging by the pretty large jump in results!
Happy New Year's Eve! Don't forget to make your new year's resolution a new website.
web site design swansea from position 180 to 125
website design swansea from 133 to 64
web design swansea from 134 to 74
swansea web design from 143 to 129
web designer swansea from 131 to 74
Even for 'web site development swansea' we're at position 59.
But is it working? Are people getting to the website?
According to Google Analytics, 17.75% of our traffic is from Google organic searches for 'web development swansea', 'web design swansea' and 'web design company wales'.
We still have a bit more work to do...but it does look to me like content is definitely a big part of SEO work judging by the pretty large jump in results!
Happy New Year's Eve! Don't forget to make your new year's resolution a new website.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
Pre-Content Search Engine Update
Before I add the extra content to picseli.co.uk I thought I'd better have a baseline to measure against. I was quite disappointed when I found out that in Google we had dropped several pages for some keywords - but this does show you that we need to stay on top of SEO and how quickly things can change. The results are:
web site design swansea from 128 to 180
website design swansea from 76 to 133
web design swansea from 85 to 134
swansea web design from 125 to 143
web designer swansea from 81 to 131
I also added a few other searches:
web site development swansea - position 71
website development swansea - position 85
web development swansea - position 60
Then I decided to see how we were doing in the next most popular search engine - Yahoo!
I was delighted to see that we were doing pretty well!
web site design swansea - position 9!
website design swansea - position 6!
web design swansea - position 117
swansea web design - position 95
web site development swansea - position 7
website development swansea - position 2!!!
What are people searching for?
However, it doesn't matter how well you are doing in the search engines if no one is searching for that particular phrase. So I have decided to focus on the phrases that are beign searched for. According to the Google Adwords Tool, from the phrases I have been focusing on, the ones people are actually searching for are:
website design swansea (average monthly search volume = 140)
web design swansea (720)
swansea web design (720)
web design (823,000)
I also have a list of 200 recommended keywords that I can going to use to target the content on the recently added pages.
web site design swansea from 128 to 180
website design swansea from 76 to 133
web design swansea from 85 to 134
swansea web design from 125 to 143
web designer swansea from 81 to 131
I also added a few other searches:
web site development swansea - position 71
website development swansea - position 85
web development swansea - position 60
Then I decided to see how we were doing in the next most popular search engine - Yahoo!
I was delighted to see that we were doing pretty well!
web site design swansea - position 9!
website design swansea - position 6!
web design swansea - position 117
swansea web design - position 95
web site development swansea - position 7
website development swansea - position 2!!!
What are people searching for?
However, it doesn't matter how well you are doing in the search engines if no one is searching for that particular phrase. So I have decided to focus on the phrases that are beign searched for. According to the Google Adwords Tool, from the phrases I have been focusing on, the ones people are actually searching for are:
website design swansea (average monthly search volume = 140)
web design swansea (720)
swansea web design (720)
web design (823,000)
I also have a list of 200 recommended keywords that I can going to use to target the content on the recently added pages.
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Is Content King?
For the great SEO project I have so far focused on adding the relevant "tags" where they should be, in other words, doing all the background work, and you will notice that up until now there hasn't been a huge amount of content on the website - apart from this blog. As we are now within the top 10 pages of Google -with only 2 weeks left unil the new year - I have decided to bring out the big guns and show you how targeted and well written cotent will (hopefully) boost this site to the top of the search engines.
I will post the final results in the morning, before I add the content and will keep you posted! Wish me luck!!
I will post the final results in the morning, before I add the content and will keep you posted! Wish me luck!!
Monday, 15 December 2008
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