With the marriage of Twitter and Foursquare on the cards, it has, once again, thrown light on a sticky patch that many local businesses encounter, especially when creating their … [Read more...]
10 steps for better search results local businesses – Part 2
In the first instalment of optimising your website for a local audience, we looked at 5 steps: keywords, optimisation, Google Local, local business listing websites and … [Read more...]
10 small steps to better search engine rankings for LOCAL businesses – Part 1
Steps 1 to 5 of how to rank better in terms of being a local business (steps 6 to 10 to follow on….) Let’s starts this two-part article with a rhetorical question – would you like … [Read more...]
Keeping your website alive
And we don’t mean the up time of servers! We are continuing our theme that websites are live, living things that need to be fed and nurtured on a regular basis. Websites … [Read more...]
Content audit – reviewing and creating MORE success via your website content, blogs & posts
New Year Resolutions - are they a failure or success? Why stopping, reviewing and remodelling can be the most productive of exercises According to Forbes, only 8% of people who … [Read more...]
What changes does Google see in marketing online in 2015?
(In other words, where are they looking…?) As hard as us online businesses try not to be a slave to Google and the other major search engines, the truth of the matter is, we … [Read more...]
The Power of the #Hashtag
Hasthtags are commonly associated with Twitter, as a way of marking keywords or phrases but, they can also be used in other social media platforms (get a great run down here). They … [Read more...]
Locally Crystal Ball – what will SEO look like in 2015?
Following on from our highly successful post about the look, feel and functionality of social media in 2015, we have once again dusted off the Locally crystal ball and taken a look … [Read more...]
Could your social media presence mean more sales in 2015…
…and how your SEO plan will look like to harness your audience Now that the summer sun and heat (!) have started to cool, the Christmas countdown has started and, dear reader, you … [Read more...]
Storm in a tea cup or something you need to take note of?
The “Google Authorship is Over!” headline and what it means for your website Here at Locally, we like to keep all our online, local businesses up to date with the goings on of … [Read more...]