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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: ian harper on September 30, 2013, 08:59:35 am
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With Google withholding keyword terms coming soon its an advantage to know which works best or more used pharse as the better one will get higher position on the results page
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What do you mean google witholding keyword terms ?
Steve
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Just open an Adwords account. You the get access to the (lousy) Keyword Planner Tool.
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I'm mistified......Google are withdrawing there keyword tool? ::)roll
I don't understand the post.
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Ian
I use both on exact match only, that way you have both covered.
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I think exact match domain does help but can understand the arguments against it.
It certainly isn't the be all and end all of SEO and at best is a tiny percentage of the overall
website.
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Always make sure content on your website in good, as Google looks for this. I'm very highly ranked in Leeds for many Keywords (my wife builds website), key words such as window cleaner leeds, carpet cleaners leeds, commercial carpet cleaners, pvc cleaners leeds, and many more. The content on each page helps. I don't pay for any advertising.
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Richard C.
Are you answering Ian's poll question?
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Does anyone understand this thread.. ???
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Hectard ;D Have ya missed me? :P
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yes mate.......
but my aim is getting better ;D ;D ;D
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I think a third option should be added to this Poll :P
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are your phone numbers still the same Gary??
If so I may call you tomorrow,.... too late now just off to zzzzz land ;D ;D
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Richard C.
Are you answering Ian's poll question?
Yes and no ;D (God i sound like Hector ;D) i might i have misread Ian's question slightly, i was assuming it meant keywords in relation to Adwords when i suspect he means seo for his website.
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Personaly I think too many people are obsessed with seo.
If you have a web site that gets lots of traffic and it ranks well all well and fine.
However, what I see many times is that those high ranking sites dont take advantage of their high ranking status.
To define this, what I see is that many sites are either lacking in content, not giving a prospective customer what he or she wants to know or the site is driven on price competativness against competitors.
In one of my local searches, a franchise ranks very highly. When i drop on the page there is little content and the contact no is difficult to find?
Some sites are highly complex and difficult to navigate around and are a non reality......which usually include the all too famous woman wearing the headset ready to answer your call.....I think this woman works for perhaps a million web sites ;D
And last but not least:
Re the thread about Vince achieving no1 in London.....
If that were my web site, I would be shouting sh!t that I am Londons no1 carpet & upholstey cleaning company with what would be the most glam and inspirational site ever built deserving of the people of London.....and also the prices to mach.
But what I see is.....
testimonial:#1 A job well done on our suite and curtains,will use you again after the new year. Thanks Scott :(
50% off.... :(
3 bed house £90 :(
and also..............
(http://www.carpetcleaninginlondon.com/images/stories/callus.png)
No offence to Vince whatsoever, but it seems to go across the board that too many people seem to get good ranks and do not take into consideration the immage they put forward.
Also it seems that many companies are fixated on pricing which is a huge mistake. Many of my customers either from my site or recommended see price as a secondary issue. It's all about creating trust and belief and not focusing on seo.
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It's all about creating trust and belief and not focusing on seo.
I don't see the connection. How does SEO negatively (or positively for that matter) affect trust and belief ?
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Is it me or has google search engine gone wacky
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They dont have any connection. I dont think you get my point.
If people land on your site, you have to encourage them that they have come to the place that can solve thier problems and that you are an expert in the field. Not only that, but it is a place of reality with real people that can demonstrate the work carried out and perhaps the people they have worked for.
Also image is important....I see many sites with (if they do have pictures) guys wearing jeans and trainers.
Using a high quality image will drive away price shoppers and encourage people who want a good service regardless of price. (mostly but not all the time ;D)
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Ian
You either a genius or as mad as a march hare.
I look at your sites and im with Garry I really don't get it ?
And Ian thanks for your feed back about your secretary and your phone .
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All I know is people who get results focus on the things that make the biggest difference and get on and do it, they don't arse about with things that make minimal difference sometimes requiring even more time and effort to implement. This applies to most things not just getting the phone to ring.
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Garyj
you need to read it again
"The World’s Biggest Carpet Cleaning Forum Twitter" Its a tongue in cheek statement poking fun at forums
look up the term "aggregation" thats the type site it is. the feed comes from my twitter acount and back to twitter from the rss feeds into the site. just waiting for the author of the plug in I use to allow me to use other twitter feeds but I think twitter does not like that idea at the monent
Now look up "curation" and "automation"
now you have what its about. sure I dont have as much time as i would like to put into the curation side. I find what I think is a good example of content and use their rss feed so you now have one place to see whats good. saving you the time searching them out
its a tool for your use.
why do i have to keep defending my stuff that has nothing to do with the post? Buzz is just a fun idea
And BTW i disagree why this is happen with most SEO experts they thinks its google's way of controlling them. my view is its more about restoring trust with its users with regards this NSA business. thats why the searches are encrypted. and because they are under orders from the NSA they cant tell us whats going on.
One guy in the USA had a site that encrypts and the NSA wanted to get access so he just shut the site donw now he is in trouble because he has taken away a tool they wanted. In short users would think their stuff was hidden but the NSA would be able to read it.
From google's point they are gagged. so they need to drum up support what better way of doing it? unrelated to us? not really apart from this issue about keywords but wider yes government spying on us, and lets not forget our spooks are in on all this.
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now to answer the question
you will not know in the future what is working or not if and will not have the data to build your pages.
OK, at the moment i have two pages on my sites that are trending at the moment. they dont bring in income but something more important in the SEO game and thats hits and hits add to you position. now the knock on effect is because of that position i get a chance at more income locally. plus it adds to my sales funnel
Just like the platform and device issue you cant put all you hopes in one page one site. by having this network of pages you control your own links in to your main sales pages. so my trending pages can now be linked to a sales page that will get the hits juice for it. without the search keyword data i dont know what the intent is. prospects are not always at first looking for the answer you provide but just options, and then move on the their choice of answer. data is important to you meeting this process.
keyword tools dont work because they are cherry picking whats working worldwide and at the top of the silo or keyword funnel, and its the longtail that more important and can have a cumulative that matches any top ranking keyword. when you up against a top keyword the time spent is much more time than what you can spend on the longtail and your get much better results
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I thought thw whole idea with curation was to add your own comments and interpretation (before and after). If you you just have feeds on your site then surely, it just becomes an indexing service?
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Thanks
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Is it me or has google search engine gone wacky
There was another update (hummingbird) recently. The Birmingham results seem a bit skewed towards directories and such like at the moment.
It looks like they are trying to get away from single phrase searches and concentrate on whole sentence searches (the good old long tail?).
They have apparently, been buying up technology firms that have developed predictive technology. Maybe we are moving towards voice activated searches?
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Is it me or has google search engine gone wacky
There was another update (hummingbird) recently. The Birmingham results seem a bit skewed towards directories and such like at the moment.
It looks like they are trying to get away from single phrase searches and concentrate on whole sentence searches (the good old long tail?).
They have apparently, been buying up technology firms that have developed predictive technology. Maybe we are moving towards voice activated searches?
Got to say the new layout looks crap and is all over the place. My websites seem to be up and down like a yo yo with google :D
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Got to say- I have absolutely no idea what you`re all on about!! :o
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Here are the results from the new Google keyword tool.
carpet cleaning in london
260 searches per month
carpet cleaning london
3,600 searches per month
london carpet cleaning
260 searches per month