Local Search Optimisation – free White Paper

Local businesses need to be found online by local searchers, because those searchers are their potential clients!

Yet many businesses do not optimise their search marketing activities to address their local market.

This  White Paper on Local Search Optimisation was produced by WSI to accompany a recent public webinar and discusses how this can be achieved with Google [...]

Drive Business with Local Search – free Webinar

Local searchers are ready to buy!

They are searching online looking for the product / service they need and a reputable company to purchase from. Just as advertisers are moving their marketing pounds from Yellow Pages to the web, so consumers are moving their searches from Yellow Pages to the Web as well.

WSI is conducting a special [...]

UK SMEs ignoring benefits of SEO

Two recent independent studies of UK SME websites have both highlighted that many small businesses are failing to make the most of their online presence.

In the State of UK Business Websites 2010 study commisioned by Thomson Local, they found that almost 50% of sites had only very basic or no SEO work at all. The survey [...]

Did you get a Caffeine Hit from Google?

Late yesterday afternoon, Google announced the launch of its new web-indexing system called ‘Caffeine’.

According to their announcement, it “provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links [...]

How many clicks does the first result in Google get?

What is the first position in Google rankings actually worth?

This is a figure which Google never discloses, however Chitika Research in the US recently published research based on traffic sampled from their advertising network of sites.

It showed that the traffic to the No1 ranked site :

was over a third of the total traffic in the sample
almost [...]