Google Rankings are VITAL to your websites success
Learn what they are and how to check them regularly or risk losing your business to competitors
The most important source of website visitors for most businesses is Google. Before people make a purchase they start by researching who in for suppliers in their area by typing a search into Google. The days of yellow pages and walking around looking are long gone, most people know a quick search will show them a good selection of local places.
If you do not show up on Google for a range of phrases you have a problem and will be losing business to your competitors who are there.
The problem is Google only shows about ten businesses on the first page and if you are not showing there almost no-one will go to the second or later pages and see you, your business is effectively invisible.
What “phrases” do people type in and of these, which made it to the first page, and which need more work to show up and boost your traffic.
To work out what words you should come up on Google for think of how you would search for a business supplying what you do, normally something like “specialty service/product -industry - location” e.g. garden planting plan - landscaper hamilton or Landscape design hamilton or Landscape designer Hamilton would be typical searches of someone looking for a landscaper to prepare a planting plan in Hamilton. In bigger cities people will search by their specific suburb.
Those searchers who type your business name will already know about you, a customer or past customer or referred by someone, and of course it is essential to be as close as possible to number one for your business name or risk losing them to competitors who show up above you in Google.
How can you quickly check lots of phrases in Google?
You can of course type every word or phrase into Google one by one and then click through the first 4-5 screens to see if you come up.
Then make a note of ranks for each phrase and then as you make changes to your website check how your ranking changes as you aim for the first page.
Or the easy way is by getting a ranking report regularly prepared for you. This report will show your current position on Google and if it is better or worse than last time.
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if you have Fast Web Guru Marketing and Hosting packages you will already be getting a report every month, check your email.
Let us know if you cant find your report, want to discuss further what it means, or want changes made to the phrases being checked.
To learn how to improve these search engine positions to boost your website traffic watch out for the next email from us.
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At Fast Web Guru we know how hard it is to get around to doing these updates, many of our clients don’t have the time to mess around in the back-end of websites and their updates are often not following the best practice to help on search engines, but paying others to do monthly or weekly updates is too expensive.
This is why we created the monthly Content Builder Package which includes hosting so we can do regular updates for you for a small fixed monthly fee, this can even include new graphics, emails or social media. Imagine being able to send a quick email, SMS call someone whenever you think of new content and have it done.
We can also work with you setting up a plan for regular updates on auto-pilot as well to ensure even if you are too busy to send us new updates we can keep doing improvements to your website based on criteria you specify.
We know regularly updated websites not only get more search engine visitors but more actual enquiries from those visiting the website. Most companies would only need a few more sales a year to justify the small extra cost of content builder packages.
Got the time to do it in-house, we are here for you as well and always happy to offer free training on the basics of using your website to do regular updates yourself, we want to see you getting better results every month from your site.
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