[dazmond]

i had some postcard type leaflets made up a few years ago from vistaprint(i think it was 500)ive still got most of them left.i cant remember how much they cost me.under a £100 anyway!

i always have business cards on me while im out and about working ready to hand out to any walk ups/new customers.

[Og]

Think our website is £30odd a month with seo and some stuff I don't understand.

SEO is almost always a con and often gets websites excluded from Google searches completely due to poor practices.

Nowadays Google looks for companies that don't use SEO, that way they get more interest in paid ads. Maintain your website and update it regularly and it will climb on it's own. Also put links on related sites, that helps too.

We seem to be up there nationally but always looking at ways of improving. Innit.

[Stoots]

Think our website is £30odd a month with seo and some stuff I don't understand.

SEO is almost always a con and often gets websites excluded from Google searches completely due to poor practices.

Nowadays Google looks for companies that don't use SEO, that way they get more interest in paid ads. Maintain your website and update it regularly and it will climb on it's own. Also put links on related sites, that helps too.

Load of rubbish

SEO is optimizing a website to appear in google searches.
Given that google rankings are dictated by certain factors, your website must be optimized to match those factors.

They may well be targetting poorly optimised sites to sell adwords to (praying on those whose web seo is poor)

maintain your site and update it regularly and add links you say? so thats well known off site seo techniques then?

OF COURSE your site needs seo if it is to rank, if they is no on site seo how the hell can google rank it, what do they do just rank them at random, its all based on relevancy, it has to be other wise you would search for window cleaner and get porn results or horse breeding or something.

So if you want to rank for window cleaning you better be OPTIMIZING your site to do so.

What you meant to say was dont use black hat seo that could get you banned

[jonboywalton75]

Quote from Soupy:-
You can never be sure how many enquirers you get through it though, Nat should be able to tell you the traffic, that will give you a better idea.



Nat inserted some code into my website, so I know how many hits I'm getting and where from
I have a free website that generated hardly anything
Nats website on the other hand, generates enough for me to sell rounds off that are further away from home and gain more localised work
At £29 a month........
A bargain!!!!
Oh,  I'm top of my local listing's as well

[Soupy]

Think our website is £30odd a month with seo and some stuff I don't understand.

SEO is almost always a con and often gets websites excluded from Google searches completely due to poor practices.

Nowadays Google looks for companies that don't use SEO, that way they get more interest in paid ads. Maintain your website and update it regularly and it will climb on it's own. Also put links on related sites, that helps too.

Load of rubbish

SEO is optimizing a website to appear in google searches.
Given that google rankings are dictated by certain factors, your website must be optimized to match those factors.

They may well be targetting poorly optimised sites to sell adwords to (praying on those whose web seo is poor)

maintain your site and update it regularly and add links you say? so thats well known off site seo techniques then?

OF COURSE your site needs seo if it is to rank, if they is no on site seo how the hell can google rank it, what do they do just rank them at random, its all based on relevancy, it has to be other wise you would search for window cleaner and get porn results or horse breeding or something.

So if you want to rank for window cleaning you better be OPTIMIZING your site to do so.

What you meant to say was dont use black hat seo that could get you banned

Indeed that's what I meant, however meta tags aside optimisation is basically maintaining your site so that it's relevant with searchable content and keywords, updating it regularly, having good quality links and ensuring it doesn't violate Google rules.

Trouble is Google aren't particularly forthcoming with details of how the algorithm works and it constantly evolves.