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SEO vs PPC 14th June 2011 10:55 PM
“In other industries, there are various other keywords that can be bid on but for us, it's mainly that one, and 'Solicitors Great Yarmouth' for which we rank 5th or 6th.”

Have you done your market research and confirmed this? Reason I ask, no doubt solicitors great Yarmouth would generate the most traffic, but what keywords would generate the most conversions?

Any experience I've had of solicitors recently is relating to employment contracts, business contracts, and neighbour disputes

In each case, I googled the relevant specialty, ie "solicitors employment contracts". This kind of search will generate some targeted results, and I'm likely to choose from the top few results.

Maybe that's just me, but as a business directory in a very competitive market place, we have learnt how to compete with the likes of Yell and Thomsonlocal in keyword searches.
Hmm interesting stuff

We've done ok so far out of the Panda updates, although had to do a quick fix on our directories to remove duplicate content penalties (same page but with multiple categories). For us, this was a simple case of adding 301 redirects and we've been given the thumbs up from google.

But shall be watching for further tweaks very closely!
Olympic Tickets 2012 14th June 2011 10:19 PM
Nahhhh A pack of Stella, some nibbles and a big TV, plus you don't have to go to London
Doing business in Russia... 14th June 2011 10:01 PM
“I've been about 7 times to Russia and every single time I was robbed, last time it was in a church in St Petersburg”

Blimey! Personally I think the second time would have been enough for me!

Crosses Russia off the bucket list....
I'm in Kips gang 14th June 2011 9:58 PM
“Steve, did the wife buy it so you could come home early to change the nappies with one hand and iPad in the other!”

Not far wrong! Means I can type with a baby over my shoulder
I'm guessing it's a pretty competitive market, we had another Chinese agent on here a while ago.

It's all about trust and relationships as you say, maybe things like forums are a good way to interact and build a reputation, but offering a no risk first order seems like a good idea.
I'm in Kips gang 13th June 2011 10:35 PM
Lol knew it wouldn't take long! The screen stopped rotating, tried all the Apple help stuff, unlocking, locking the rotation etc, nothing.

Then on the AV forum, someone else with the same problem, hold the home button and sleep button which shuts it down! Then switch it back on again, and all fixed...

So you apple worshippers you kept that quiet, if in doubt reboot
“is it a one time pin? or do you get a new one every time you log in? It would be good to know that I could protect my email that way. Pity msn never thought of that.”

I think it sends you a new pin every 30 or 60 days, but will also prompt you for a pin if you access your google accounts from another machine
SEO vs PPC 13th June 2011 4:56 PM
“Yes I am aware about Good & unique content. But I wonder about the contents that can be placed in a shopping site.”

There are multitudes of opportunities, you can have a huge description per item which could be opened if you select more info. But a lot of people just pull generic affiliate products from a central database, which auto populate descriptions etc, which makes it easier to manage, but will limit SEO effectiveness.

But you can reference products with fresh content, maybe a more info, or picks of the day/week/month etc, linking to the product URL, giving it more weight in the SERPs. Link back to products from blogs, social media etc.

Just because its an ecommerce platform, doesn't mean you have to be held back by lack of content.
“I've been going about it the old fashioned way by visiting other blogs similar to mine and placing (hopefully) insightful and intelligent comments. It is slow and it seems not many people upkeep their blogs, but I like the slow roads mostly.”

Old fashioned slow and steady is the way forward

Shortcuts and comment spam is a road to ruin...