MY Local Services - SEO Challenge

By tombuckers : SEO
Published 19th November 2014 | Last comment 8th March 2015
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Hi, 

This was only a test so only designed to give a slight boost. I also did a full SEO audit for Steve and the MLS team which showed up a couple of technical issues with the site. 

To be 100% honest I have no idea why they dropped from page 1, its not something I'm involved with currently, but I know their traffic hasn't dropped so not really an issue. Might just be temporarily bouncing around the SERPs. 


Tom Buckland
SEO Consultant

Hi Tom,

I just make a check and My Local Services is now 27 for "seo business forum" - the site rankings are worse than ever for that keyword. Also i noticed that instead of the forum, Google ranks My Local Services homepage. What do you think is the reason?

 
Right I want a refund
 
To be fair, the term seo business forum was a bit of fun and isn't one we monitor or track, so no idea how it has performed up or down.
 
Every week we get keywords that bounce up 30 places or bounce down 30 places. Just the usual Google churn.
 
One keyword we do monitor is the other one Tom played with: UK Business Forum
 

It's a fluff term, as we don't intend to compete with the UKBF, but I use it as a benchmark keyword in our stats, so we can see if something catastrophic or untoward happens.

Just looked at the current MOZ stats and here's what it says.

So 47th to 15th. Not bad going, but like I said it's not a traffic generator or converter, just purely a benchmark.

If it was a traffic generator, Tom might start asking us for money! 


Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

Hi, 

This was only a test so only designed to give a slight boost. I also did a full SEO audit for Steve and the MLS team which showed up a couple of technical issues with the site. ”

 

Top audit and very well received sir

I can safely say we have now implemented most of your recommendation's, so if I disappear, we've either sold out to Yelp and now living in the Bahamas, or sleeping under a railway bridge in Birmingham 


Steve Richardson
Gaffer of My Local Services
My Local Services | Me on LinkedIn

Top audit and very well received sir

I can safely say we have now implemented most of your recommendation's, so if I disappear, we've either sold out to Yelp and now living in the Bahamas, or sleeping under a railway bridge in Birmingham 

 

That's good news! 

Haha don't go selling out to Yelp for anything less than 1.2m! 


Tom Buckland
SEO Consultant

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