[mark shannon]

Is Mark from DP an Seo expert?

[clinton]

Hi mark

Aint sure on that one

Who does this for you mark

[davep]

Marks a wise guy and does his own 

[clinton]

Hi dave

You mean mark from dp

Il give joe a bell tmo and see what his diarys like.

Thanks for the chat and advice sat mate.

[davep]

No probs Clinton, no I mean Mark Shannon does his own 

[clinton]

Dave

We might ask mark to do ours

Its still quiet with me at the mo.

[mark shannon]

Dave's got the web angle sussed Clinton have a word with him about SEO 

The site needs to be set up with Seo in mind, and be Goggle friendly, and if i was doing it again i would be inclined to spend more on that side than design.

Mark

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys

Organic listings are key, you don't have to pay.

Adwords are o.k as a short term boost, you can switch on and off at will but they are expensive .

It's a bit like buliding a CC business and never getting a repeat customer or recommendation, you will always be looking for new customers.

As some of you know I have over 120 sites and lots of high ranking ones, so I do know a bit about this.

Cheers

doug

[Mike Halliday]

Doug, if you have 120 sites, are they are linking to each other? and is this why you do well with organic listing.

[clinton]

Have noticed since i have one of dougs site my other site is number 1 on google

[garry22]

Quick note for Mike Halliday...

Mike, did you know that you can use geo targetting with adwords?

You can limit your areas to (almost) postcode areas by clicking on a local map.

Garry

[JandS]

Garry
How you do that, mine comes up number 1 for my postcode but not for any of the surrounding ones.

Clinton
Your site didn't come up at all when I typed in cc stockport and cc cheshire.

John

[garry22]

John,

I have not done it for a while.

I'll double check and come back to you.

G

[garry22]

John,

This is for Google adwords.

1/ Go into your Google Adwords account.
2/ Click on the relevant campaign.
3/ Go to "Edit campaign settings"
4/ Go to the bottom of the page to "Target audience"
5/ Set or Edit settings. Click on the map or put your desired postcode in.
6/ The selected areas will be highlighted. You can edit these if desired.

G

[JandS]

Cheers garry

John

[JandS]

Whats the "relevant campaign"     my account?
If so there's no edit campaign option.

John

[Mike Osbourne]

Gary

How accurate do you reckon the location settings are? I have heard mixed reviews.

[garry22]

John,

Sorry for the confusion. I am running a couple of campaigns, so I meant the one that you want to edit.

If you are running just one you should just click on that one under "campaign summary".

You'll find the "edit campaign settings" is between the "daily budget" figure and the "opportunities"

Mike,

To be honest, I'm using it more for testing puposes. What I'm looking at is the impressions rather than the clicks. When I have enough data I can start formulating the ad groups within the campaign and then split test them.

It is showing localised searches that appear to be more accurate than the standard keyword tool (some local search terms have not shown at all in the keyword tool  data). The bids are set near to minimum so that it does not run away out of control.

I am assuming that PPC data is more accurately reported than estimated traffic figures.

 Hopefully these will come in useful for whenever / if ever I get time to rebuild my sites.

Does that make sense?

Garry

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Mike

 I get good organic listings for a host of reasons, but links are important.

Cheers

Doug

[Mike Osbourne]

Gary

Very informative Gary, in lots of ways.

Mike