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Google Places Optimisation (part 1)

*Note this is part 1 of a 2 part series, in part 2 we talk about 4 specific techniques for increasing your position in Google Places.

Getting traffic to your website from Google is getting harder and harder. In the old days it was as simple as making the top 3 or 5 of the natural listings and you would be virtually guaranteed loads of traffic.

But over the last few years, Google itself has made it harder and harder to get traffic through the natural listings because they keep adding more stuff to the page!

In particular the prominence of Google Places listings has caused business owners (including yours truly) considerable stress in the last year or so.

In this 2 part article I’ll explain how to go about optimising for Google Places. In part 1 I am going to focus on Keywords because depending on your keyword you may or may not have to focus on optimising for Google Places.

Keyword choice

Part of the challenge with Google Places is it doesn’t always show up when you do a Google search. Not only does it show up on and off but it also shows up in different ways depending on the search.

Here are a few different ways I’ve seen Google displaying it’s front page results depending on the keyword chosen.

Search ‘Brisbane Wedding Videos’

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Small business search engine domination

Ebook I am excited to announce the launch of our new SEO service and to support the launch I have written a 19 page ebook filled with SEO advice for small business owners.Originally I intended to provide the ebook to clients who signed up to the service however I felt this kind of information is too hard to find for the average small business so I have decided to make it available to all. Read More…
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3 easy ways to use your website to get more customers

Over the next few months we will be launching a number of free resources to help small businesses monitor and improve the success of their websites. We will be focusing heavily on how small businesses can make simple changes to increase traffic, improve conversion and ultimately get more customers.

Before we do that though, let’s make sure we get the basics right with 3 easy things that every small business owner should be doing to get more customers.

The path to becoming a customer of any business is a structured one. People move from being:

  1. part of a target market for a business (say a website visitor) through to
  2. a lead (say someone who has completed a contact form or showed some interest in some way) to
  3. a prospect (someone who has been qualified as being a legitimate potential customer) and ultimately
  4. a customer (someone who has made a purchase).

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