updating websites, prices, fit rates etc

[Gavin A]

tbh, we're also working on trying to increase our conversion rate, and the ratio of people staying on the site for longer etc.

not too arsed about the national stuff really, though the odd job from elsewhere all helps.

 

[Gavin A]

note to self, must do payroll before playing with the internet...

 

[TedM]

There's plenty of good advice on the google webmaster pages if anyone hasn't found that yet - Webmasters ? Google

 

[dansk]

ploughcroft must be busy they havent even changed there adwords...doh



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[Gavin A]

it appears you've overtaken me already... but well, let's just say this is just the first skirmish and we'll see what the next few days brings when google catches up

 

[dansk]

That was quick, wish it happened like that on other keywords. TBH it was only a test on my behalf, as I want to get another venture up and running, I'm a closet SEO, if you want any help just ask, I reckon I could some good.

 

[Eco Deal]

learn me how to do my own SEO it cost an arm and a leg .

 

[dansk]

you can pay me as a consultant

 

[Gavin A]

it appears you've overtaken me already... but well, let's just say this is just the first skirmish and we'll see what the next few days brings when google catches up

*evil laugh*

my counter measures have taken affect, and you're back in 2nd place Mr Dansk:tongue3:

 

[Eco Deal]

its it easy are you just swaping links ?

 

[Gavin A]

its it easy are you just swaping links ?

well, that was mostly about changing the content on the page, which tbh I was wanting to do a bit anyway as I'd written it in a hurry on the day of the announcement, so I just made sure it had that search phrase in a bit more, plus a few other bits an pieces, and submitting the page to google to speed up the process of google finding the changes.

 

[dansk]

nope, linking swapping is so 2005, these days its about unique quality content, high quality relavent inbound links, but not from link farms etc. there is a bit too it if im honest.

 

[Gavin A]

hmm... bugger, I think we just got dumped down the google rankings for 'solar panels leeds', presumably because I've just added that search term as the link title for our site in a few of those link farm type sites... apparently google has just released a revised version of it's google penguin search algorythm on Friday, which coincides precisely with the point where we appear to have been dumped from averaging around 2nd or 3rd to suddenly being dumped to 30th.

well it could be that, or it could have been something else I'd done... doh.

as far as I can tell it's only impacted on that one search term, unfortunately that was the one I'd been targeting as being the most search term that was most relevant to us. Hopefully this won't be a permanent thing.

 

[dansk]

i see you page 2, and page 1 in the local business results. yes also revised penguin update on friday

 

[Gavin A]

stupid thing is, I've never been able to see us at all in the listings for 'solar panels Leeds' because it seems to just post up our google places listing if we're searching from somewhere near to our location, but for people searching from elsewhere we show up fine.

dansk - is that our front page you're seeing on page 2, or our panels page? as our panels page was ranking on page 2 by itself, and the front page was supposedly showing at 3 for anyone outside of the google places area.

I'm getting this info about us dropping down the rankings from the google webmaster site, which runs about 2-3 days behind, and was showing us at 2.9 last week, then suddenly we drop to 30 on Friday for 'solar panels Leeds', which doesn't look good given the penguin update date.

I think the google places listing is different though, so luckily we'll still appear there for local searchers, which is mainly what we're after.