Developing a Google plus page for your business can be one of the quickest ways of getting your business on the first page of google, better still it only takes a little bit of your time to produce the page and a little bit more time (roughly two weeks) waiting on the code to come through your letterbox from google.

It is amazing how many company’s are missing out on appearing on the first page of google simply because they haven’t bothered to develop a google plus page for their business.

Creating your very own Google plus page could not be easier,  if you would like to find out more information about how to set one up please click on Google plus for Business

It really only takes a matter of minutes, but make sure that you are constantly updating & your plus page & try to make sure that you get others to join your page.   Remember though to make it as social as possible.

If you would like more information about Google + for business then please feel free to contact a member of our team.

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To begin with let me start by saying that I won’t mention names, but I was recently putting together a proposal for a company who was looking for an SEO quote for their website, the website happened to be in a sector that we had successfully conquered for other websites. So when I was putting together the proposal I went and did my search on Google.ie to see exactly where the business was and much to my surprise it had disappeared from the top of page 1, it wasn’t even on page 2,3,4,or 5 for that matter. Scratching my head i wondered why,  the content had some slight changes but I was fully aware of the updated wording as I had screened it before it went live.  Eventually I noticed that they had changed domain names, after 2 hours of looking and trying to work out what had gone wrong we were able to see exactly what the issue was.

We were then able to go to Google webmaster tools and fix the problem and we are now starting to see the website rise up the rankings again. Thank fully it is rising quickly.

Although it was the customer who changed the domain name and didn’t bother to contact his SEO Consultant about the change, it does not take away from the fact that it is really important to Consult any changes to your website with your SEO Consultant.  This problem would not have been a problem if we were told and made the necessary steps to please the search engines.  Now we just have to wait until we get the customer back to the top of page 1 which hopefully wont be too long now.

Our customer learned from this mistake the hard way as he has had to fork out more on google adwords until we have him back at the top, so please don’t make the same mistake.

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We recently ran a report for one of our customers who has 2 websites with us selling the same service but under two individual websites. The first website we carried out extensive SEO work on & it appears at the top of the Google for over 220 search terms, the other is running on a Google adwords campaign, both websites both get transferred to the same company both in orders via telephone & via online orders so we are able to provide an accurate conversion percentage for both websites.

What we found is that SEO has the edge over PPC, but not by much. Have a look at the infogram below & see for yourself, but if there is profit to be made by doing SEO & PPC then do both, we do. 

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The first phase of this offers is an Discovery interview to get to know your business & familiarize ourselves with your products, services, usp’s, target audience & competition. This is a key element to developing a professional online marketing plan for your business.

Stage 2 of developing the SEO Report consists of looking into your website & evaluating what it’s strengths and weeknesses are, this consists of domain, website architecture, speed, link popularity, page construction, content, etc. Basically we strip your website down & discover what is not making it perform well.

The 3 stage consists of looking at Keywords that your business would benefit being found for, we will compile a list of relevant keywords & phrases that will maximise your website potential for being found. We will then provide you with details of how to implement these keyword phrases into a succesful SEO campaign.

Stage 4 is normally a favourite of business owners, we will look at 2 businesses that are appearing on the first page of Google organically for keywords that your business also wants to appear for, we will then provide you with a full report of how there doing it & how you can do it to.

Once all four stages are completed we will then forward you the SEO Report completley free for the first 50 Irish SME’s businesses who fill in our contact us using the term FREE SEO REPORT

Our Web Design team is also at hand should you have any website related querries, so do not hestitate to contact us with any website or SEO questions.

Thenet.ie proudly developing websites & online solutions for Irish Businesses for over 13 Years.

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Do you ask yourself why is it that other businesses are appearing on google places but yours isn’t?  Well we will provide you with some tips that may help you get into that top listing.

1. First of all lets start with the basics, you need to get your business info to be 100% complete. Check to see what yours is and make sure that it is at that crucial 100%.  It’s amazing how many times we open up a clients google places account and find that all we need to do is fill in the google places page and within no time there business is appearing on the first page.
2. Start asking for your customers to review your business. It can be that simple, ask your customers to post a review and thank them or reward them for it.  The more feedback you get the better you will look in googles eyes.
3. Get your local customers to upload photos to your google places page, the more active your google places page is the better the results will be for your business.
4. Make sure that you get reviews posted on the likes of Yelp.ie / Citylocal / Sayso etc, these need to have the same company details as on your google places listing.  These will eventually trickle down to your google places listing.

There are a number of other websites that can help you find out more information about optimisation of your google local places, but I have left a link here from an article that I read.

Please feel free to leave any tips or tricks that have helped your business get to the top of google places.

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Well what SEO changes will Google come up with in 2013? We have had Penguin & Panda so are they going to come up with something like Panther in 2013? Who knows it is anybody’s guess. What most SEO experts are saying is that a websites upload speed might have  more of an effect on a websites rankings in 2013, in fact Google now has an invitation only Webpage speed  service  where you are invited to submit your website & it will speed up the upload time of it by as much as 40%.

Most SEO Experts are now predicting that 2013 will see Googles algorithm changing to accomate faster quicker websites & websites that are uploading faster above the fold, we will be experimenting over the upcoming months to see what difference this makes to the ranking of websites and we will report the SEO findings in our News page & on Facebook.

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Happy New Year to you, we hope that 2013 is the year that Ireland starts to see a recovery.Web Design with SEO.  We have noticed an sharp increase in the amount of phone calls that we have been receiving from business looking to develop an SEO strategy for there websites, so we have decided to offer a free SEO website health check for SME’s based in Ireland.

You can get your free SEO website Health check by simply filling in the form by clicking on SEO Website Health Check, once this form has been filled in one of our SEO Experts will contact you to go through a very quick SEO check with you, then we will run the SEO test & send you on the SEO Results.

What will an SEO developed website do for your business in 2013?

One of our customers noted that there orders went up 24% in the first 4 weeks that there website was appearing on the first page of Google working it of the previous month and this can be echoed across various other websites that we have carried out SEO work on.  If your website already has google analytics it is very easy to view the results that SEO can bring to a business website, so even if you are not going to get SEO work carried out just yet, always make sure that your website has google analytics set up, so once you do decide to get an SEO expert,  you will be able to clearly see the difference that they have made to increasing the amount of people viewing your website.

Web Design with SEO, why not just get an SEO company?

We know a lot of SEO companies that are very good at getting you to the top of Google & that is great, but what happens if you are on the first page of Google & you are still not getting the orders or enquires ? this is mostly down to the SEO company looking at getting you found under a search term & not looking at what your potential visitors are going to view, what is the point of paying an SEO company to drive traffic to your website if the webpage the land on does not convince them to stay?  We are a web design company with over 12 years in high quality website design & we employ SEO experts to carry out SEO work on your website so we have the ability to advise you on the best solution to suit your individual business needs.

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