facebook urls

facebook have given their members personal urls and I am now
facebook.com/essexwebdesigner

domain names

recently been talking about domain names with clients, sometimes its hard to get a 'decent' website name that ticks all the right boxes of easy to remember (the radio test), relevant, contain one or more important keywords to your site (SEO optimised) and does contain a trademark.

You will find that nearly all one and two word domains are taken or have been bought and are for sale, even two word hyphenated domains are hard to get nowdays but more commonly we are buying two word hypenated website domain names for our clients that contain the geographical location of their business.

recently we have:

essex-web-designers.co.uk
essex-wedding-car.co.uk
essex-steam-cleaning.co.uk
essex-personal-assistant.co.uk
essexcleaningcompany.co.uk

google / yahoo have hinted that their is some seo value in having your target keywords in your domain name so if you are in yahoo and search for web designer essex you will see that we are the first choice (we believe that yahoo give more weighting in their search algorithm for domain name keywords)

so we will continue to use 2 and 3 word essex or area related hypenated domain names as it seems to meet all the criteria and in the light of the fact that 'all the best ones are gone' we can only continue to do this as we dont believe in spending money on domain names, as its a cost a new business doesnt need before making any money, thats said at the right price some domain names would be attractive (especially if they have a static rank / page rank associated with them and they are > 2years old)

another reason for using hyphens, you may end up with

www.whorepresents.com who represents
www.expertsexchange.com experts exchange
www.penisland.net pen island
therapistfinder.com therapist finder
molestationnursery.com mole station nursery - now sadly closed
gasheating.co.uk gas heating
powergenitalia.com powergen italia

Day out today

Delicious Webdesign are attending Internet World exhibition at Earls Court

Google Ranking

After completing a website redesign and SEO project we managed to achieve improved Search Engine results for our client http://www.arrowvintagecars.co.uk/

Position 1 for wedding cars essex

as well as getting them in the top 5 of the Google Local business search for a huge variety of valuable search terms

The SEO program has only been going for 1 month so we are hoping for more improvements as the months go on

New Site launched with great initial rankings

new site google.co.uk rankings

these are acceptable for a new site that has just been launched in a very competitive field
site http://www.crown-chauffeurs.co.uk/

24th for london bentley chauffeur

1st (directory) 11th, 12th and Google Local Business centre london security chauffeur

4th, 5th and 7th(directory) essex security chauffeur

8th and 9th essex bentley chauffeur

3rd and 4th essex wedding chauffeur bentley

You can see that most results have two pages thats good and a result of 'deep' longtail searches and only there due to the detail thats been added for the services and cars in terms of text and images

Search market share

Was recently contacted by a Yahoo sales person about advertising and ended up amazed at his lack of search engine knowledge and had to correct his facts, and vocabulary regarding search engines.

In particular he kept telling me that yahoo has the majority of the business enquiry search engine traffic regarding the local business traffic, he quoted Yahoo having 16% market share where recently I had been reading that their market share was at an all time low as shown in the figures reported last month by hitwise.

Rank	Search Engine	Volume
1.	www.google.co.uk	76.00%
2.	www.google.com	14.32%
3.	uk.search.yahoo.com	2.76%
4.	www.live.com	2.01%

After I directed him to these stats he said 'I can tell you for a fact that these figures are wrong' at that point i told him that his credibility was questionable.

I love people that phone businesses all day long trying to help up (telesales, by any other name) and have dealt with many regarding lots of issues but I do expect them to have some facts and integrity when dealing with 'sales leads'

impressive results

More recent goog seo results here one from a brand new (3 week old site)
car scrap yard (car disposals)

yahoo search number 1 for car disposals essex
as well as being number 1 for car disposals
www.car-disposals.co.uk


and one for a long term seo project with 3 sites that offer padi instructor courses in phuket, thailand
www.indepth-instructions.com
www.idcphuket.com
www.idcthailand.com

yahoo search 2 sites in top 10 for padi idc phuket (positions 5 and 6)

google.co.uk search where all 3 sites in the top ten for padi idc phuket (pos 2,4 and 9)

google.com search all 3 site in top 10 for padi idc phuket (positions 2,4 and 9 but with the natural search the top two sites have two places each as they both have two pages listed for that search term)

and another ...
yahoo ranking number 1 for essex dance schools