How to get my business website found on Google?

The plea is a common one “How do I get my business website to no. 1 on Google?” , and the follow up comment is often “My friend tells me it needs search optimisation, but I don’t know what SEO is!”

A common situation that many business people will recognise. However for most businesses, they are actually [...]

Google Update – Local Search just became even more important!

Earlier this week, Google changed the rules of the ‘search results’ yet again, by rolling out a new presentation for displaying locally focused search results, called ‘Place Search’!

Up until this week, a search for a local service or business would usually cause a map to be displayed, accompanied by a list alongside of 1, 3 or [...]

DIY Search Optimisation – Workshop 21st October, Chester

WSI is hosting a half-day workshop on October 21st at the Crowne Plaza in Chester.

So if you are….
• Frustrated that your competitors appear above you on Google?
• Confused about how the search engines decide what is important?
• Unsure how to get your business onto Google Maps or the Shopping Results?
• Fed up with SEO ‘false claims’ and ‘exclusive offers’
….then this [...]

Happy 12th Birthday, Google

So today is Google’s 12th birthday.

I’m sure most people think it has been there ‘for ever’, but in fact the search engine was only launched in 1998.

And yet by 2006, ‘to Google’ had been added in to the Oxford English Dictionary!

Who can predict what the next 12 years of Internet development will bring, but I’m sure [...]

Going, going….Yahoo Search almost gone?!

Just over a year ago,  Yahoo and Microsoft signed an agreement to combine forces in an attempt to hold back the tide of Google, which then had to work its way through the US legal system.

Well its now actually happened – Microsoft’s Bing search engine is delivering the results for Yahoo Search.

The implementation is currently only [...]