Marketing Round Our Way

July 28, 2010 By

So the Yellow Pages has a new look!

I received a letter this morning from Yell informing me that the famous Yellow Pages directory has been redesigned to make it better.

Apparently they’ve split it into two distinct sections. Business paying advertisers will now appear at the front and general free listings are now in alphabetical order at the back. This means paid for ads will stand out.

Apparently their research suggests that the changes could increase usage by up to 12%. Their research as far as I could ascertain was in two small areas back in 2009.

Now I would suggest this research is already out of date. How have they’ve bucked the trend from online searches back to paper when all other research in this area points to online searches still growing at huge monthly increments and the traditional methods trailing off and bottoming out?

The compact size maybe easier to fit in the letter box but it’s just as easy as it ever was to drop in the recycling facility.

 

Congratulations to Wampit!

Meanwhile the online business directory Wampit celebrates it’s first year with 350,000 business listings and 60,000 unique monthly visitors to it’s site.

Business Advertising - on the Wampit UK business directory.

 

Home Based Business Opportunities

And finally if you are looking for opportunities to start a home based business or How To Make Money from home, check out the Cambridge Business Academy for advice and a wealth of resources.

The Blend Article Marketing Service also has had a great first week since launch. You can find easy to use Article, Link Building and Banner Adverting solutions here. Try it for Free and guage how well it works for your own SEO efforts.

Link Market – Free Link Exchange, Link Building and Link Trade Directory
Have you ever tried to exchange links, link building, or trade links? Was it hard? Use link market instead; – it is easy to use, free and very smart. It will save you hours of work.

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Easy Back Links and Banners Solutions

July 18, 2010 By

SEO – it’s all about Back Links!

Is your website going no where? No inbound back links? No Traffic? No sales? We have a few select tailored solutions that can help you right now! Stop trading links with other sites and put your link building efforts on auto-pilot with us!

We’ve made it affordable, quick and easy for you to get all the back links you need to boost your website and Page Rank.

• Effortlessly Build Tens Of Thousands Of Inbound Back Links Over Time

• Put Your Search Engine Optimization Link Building Efforts On Auto-Pilot

• Increase Your Ranking & Link Popularity Quickly

Why is Link Building Important?

The most important source of traffic you have to your website comes directly from search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Visitors that find your website via the search engines are more likely to purchase your product or service and best of all – organic traffic costs you nothing.

Our link building solutions are tailored to quickly and effectively put your link building efforts on autopilot. For start-ups and newly developed sites our packages can quickly and effectively establish your site within the search engines by providing thousands of inbound back links to your page and ongoing efforts to increase your Page Rank over time. This results in better Page Rank, search engine ranking, and content relevance for your site. Best of all – its very affordable for the small business budget!

Blend Article Marketing Services have 4 inexpensive solutions that are guaranteed to establish your site with the search engines, increase your Page Rank, provide 1000’s of relevant inbound back links and bring floods of traffic to your website.

We invite you to check them out…

Back Links

Homepage Network Wide Link Building

“Do You Need Fast Indexing, Ranking & SEO Results?” This is a powerful solution that will bring you a boost in Page Rank and results!

If you need a powerful link campaign that will instantly get your site indexed and positions moving then this is a powerful solution for you. Our Homepage Link Building package will place your website link on the homepage of over 6000 domains across our content network. Within weeks you will see a vast increase in your search engine positions, link popularity, and visitor count from targeted keyword phrases that count.

 

Article Network Wide Link Building

Increase your inbound link volume with our article network wide back links! This will give you THOUSANDS of content rich pages pointing to your website.

If your site is newly developed and you need to increase your indexed pages and link count, our Article Network Wide link building can provide you with the inbound links required to jump start your search engine optimization efforts. This will create you hundreds of inbound links on each of our 6ooo+ domains – leaving you with tens of thousands of links.

 

Long Term Back Links Building

Auto pilot your long-term link building efforts with ease! This method will allow you to submit your website ONCE to our network and never have to resubmit it.

Although we recommend this option for all of our customers – we especially want to invite those working on a low or start-up budget. This option provides you with a simple yet effective Long Term link building effort. This product will continue to build links to your website indefinably as our network grows and builds the foundation of your search engine optimization efforts.

 

Network Banner Ads & Back Links

Increase your inbound links while also advertising your website to the tens of thousands of weekly visitors to our network.

For our clients that love banners we also offer a banner placement that act as static links across the network of our article pages. Your ad will appear in rotation on a domain, and stay on that domain, for a pre-defined duration of time. Not only will this build you inbound links but bring you qualified visitors to your website as well.

All of our banners are static links as we do not use java code or other scripts to plant them on the domain so you can be assured that these links will count as inbound links to your website.

NB. The Back Links Service Have Now Been Discontinued in this format.

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Article Writing Service

July 17, 2010 By

Don’t Have Time to Write Articles and/or Press Releases?

That’s OK, we can write them for you. We’ve made submitting articles to our privately owned domains simplicity itself. You can get started straight away for FREE here – Blend Article Marketing Service. (Discontinued)

Of course you may not want to write an article or press release if you are pushed for time, don’t like writing or would rather pay a professional to do it for you.

Introducing our 10X10 Article Writing and Submission Service.

“There’s no better proven way to put your search engine optimization and link building efforts on auto-pilot and as well as attract thousands of visitors to your website every month than article marketing”.

Before we start to research and write your articles we firstly need to get some information from you such as topic, category, keywords and your website URL. Armed with this information our team of professional writers can then write a series of eye-catching articles for you.

Each unique, 400 – 500 word, well researched article is content rich and contains the optimum keywords and phrase density favoured by the search engines.

We ensure each article title is highly relevant to your industry to attract targeted and lucrative visitors to the article pages, and finally to your website. We also include 2 one way links pointing back to your website, one at the top and one at the bottom of the article, so readers can fast track over to your website or landing page.

We then release one article per month for 10 12 months* into our privately owned article network. Each article is syndicated across our network at a rate of 10-20 sites a day. The links generated are STATIC one-way content rich inbound links to your website and will boost your search engine ranking safely and consistently over time.

We understand advanced search engine optimization tactics and have designed our technology to meet new rules and the ever-changing formulas of Google and other major search engines. You can be assured that our article marketing submission service and technology always has your best interest at heart.

Summary

*12 articles for the price of 10

*400 words per article

*Unique content – well researched

*Keyword optimized

*Submitted to our privately owned domains over a year (1 per month)

* Thousands of quality, static, one way, permanent back links

Price: A one off investment of £347

 

Discover more about our article marketing submission service. Click here – Article Marketing.

Start submitting your own articles and press releases right now. Click here – Blend Article Marketing Service.

Your comments and questions are welcome.

 

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Local Search Marketing Services Press Release

July 5, 2010 By

London, England (Press Release) 1 July 2010. It’s still a tough and uncertain time for trading in any business sector post election but small local businesses can now finally compete with the big companies and beat them at their own marketing game.

While top end grocers (TEG’s) are not content to dominate with their hyper stores and continue to pursue their growth with ‘Local’ and ‘Metro’ brands, Google now offer small and medium size businesses a golden opportunity to get seen where the customers are looking… and that’s on the net.

One London based internet marketing company is aiming to provide all the Internet marketing strategies these small companies need at affordable rates to dominate in online local search. Perry Stevens founded the company, Blend Local Search Marketing in 2009. Prior to establishing Blend, Perry worked in marketing with some of the biggest household brands in the world before running his own successful small business, IMP Film Co. a production company again in London.

Blend was born of the advertising shift from TV, radio and traditional print media to online, viral, social and local marketing. Small businesses are now able to claim and build their own real estate in the form of web properties and utilize the growing trend for social networking, video and map marketing to laser target new customers and elevate their company profiles to rock star status in local search.

‘It’s very important for business to claim their brand online. This means claiming a listing in Google local, registering websites and having accounts and profiles in all the major social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube’. Perry continues ‘If you don’t claim your brand, there is a strong chance someone else will ‘hijack’ it and create all kinds of problems for you down the line’.

Blend Local Search Marketing is not an SEO company in the traditional sense. Blend build and optimize web properties and directory listings for small companies with or without a website. However they strongly recommend a website or Blog for maximum effect in local search results to stay ahead of their competition, help build their brand and create invaluable company awareness.

Blend offers three affordable packages to get any small business on the first page of Google in local search – Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Blend claim your business listings and then build and fully optimize each web property with videos, photos, keyword rich copy and use a whole suite of tools to rank you higher then your competition, using the keyword phrases your customers use to find you.

Every small business today should have a web presence and Blend’s ‘Local Map Marketing Service’ is the affordable first steps to be seen were the customers are searching and that’s online.

A reported 86% of all local searches are online with 90% of these searches resulting in offline activity. 61% of this offline activity results in a purchase with 90% of these consumer purchases being made within a 20 mile locality of where people live or work. If you run a local company wouldn’t you want those customers coming to you? Your competition certainly would!

If your company isn’t seen on the first page of Google, the fact is you are not going to get any customers from online. Can your business afford to miss out on new customers, growth and sales?

The real beauty of investing in local and social marketing is three fold:

  • Firstly, it’s working for you 365 days a year all round the clock (sounds like the perfect employee!) and continues to grow and evolve over time.
  • Secondly is the invaluable dialogue you can have with your customers. You want them to be talking about your products and services so why not lead the discussion and build long lasting relationships with them?
  • Thirdly, most people like to do business with people they know. By stamping your personality all over your web properties, searches get to know you and long standing, trusting relationship are formed.

A strong Local Map Marketing strategy will raise your company profile above your competition, engage and inform your customers which in turn result in retaining old and creating new customers, more sales and a healthy ROI.

For more information on internet marketing for small business in the UK and the USA (you don’t have to be local to us to have a successful local search marketing campaign) contact Blend Local Search Marketing.

www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

45 Bridge Meadows, London England SE14 5SU

T: 0207 635 0549

E: blendlsm @ googlemail.com

Perry StevensPerry Stevens – Founder of Blend Local Search Marketing.


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Blend Local Search Case Study #1

July 5, 2010 By

In our first case study for Local Search Marketing by Blend, we are going to have a look at Perry’s Aquatic Centre.

Perry’s Aquatic Centre is a tropical, marine and cold-water fish shop in Lincolnshire. The business has been around for over 18 years but had no website.

Blend started by discussing with the owner what they wanted to achieve with an online presence and together decided on what search terms they wanted to be found by. We then build a Blog website that allowed the owners to manage content and communicate with their customers on a regular basis in the future.

In less than two weeks Blend had positioned Perry’s Aquatic Centre on Page 1 of Google and within three weeks had 7 out of 10 listings for the keyword search terms. A further 4 listings were recorded on Page 2 of Google.

The first new customer the website produced purchased goods from the centre with a ‘Print-off and Present’ voucher on the second weekend after the websites launch.

Blend also opened an affiliate account with Amazon and built an online store on the website. This generates a revenue stream of passive income for the owners. In other words they earn money for doing nothing. Amazon looks after all the sales and posts Perry’s Aquatic Centre a commission check every month. All they have to do is cash it.

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Above The end-of-week 1 screen shots using the keywords ‘Aquatics Centre Lincoln’. The search term turns up 151,000 listings. Notice Perry’s Aquatic Centres website has yet to rank on Google Page 1 but directory listing are present.

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Local Search aquatic centre 4

Above At the end of week 3, Perry’s Aquatic Centre completely dominates Google Page One with 7 out of 10 local search listings including #1 and #2. There is also a map, directions and the company’s telephone number and full postal address.

It also has two video listings further down that catch the eye of the searcher. Also notice the #2 listing is indented. If you click on ‘show more results’ button another 5 pages of Perry’s Aquatic Centre are opened.

The methods we use to blend local search and market this company give the searcher rich content and relevant information on the business and the competitors are completely blown out of the water.

More Local Search Marketing Case Studies.

To skyrocket your business, generate more leads, gain new customers and make more sales contact Blend now.

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The End of Keyword Research.

July 3, 2010 By

Dominate Page 1 of Google in Local Organic Search With a No Cost Website Analysis and Keyword Research Report from Blend.

These days it isn’t enough to be on Page 1 of Google, you need to completely dominate it!

If you share page 1 of Google with other competing businesses in your sector you still only get part of the market share. By completely dominating it you get the lions share.

Did you know that over 80% of website traffic is the result of search engines? If you want to increase the number of visitors to your website it is crucial that you have a top search engine position for the keywords your customers are using for search.

Most SEO experts optimize one static website. Blend creates multiple listings outside of your website to dominate Google Page 1 using keyword phrases your customers use when searching.

At No Cost to You, Blend will run a website analysis and keyword research report showing you exactly where your business is visible on the net. This will include the optimum keyword phrases your customers use to find you, monthly searches, cost per click (CPC), Local search competition and domination viability. Then we will email you our analysis report along with the recommendations of how we can market your company on the net, increase your ranking, improve your websites traffic dramatically, eliminate your online competition and produce a high ROI.

We exclusively provide our Local Search and Google Page 1 Domination tactics to only one company in its business sector. Don’t let it be your competition.

To Get Your No Cost Website Analysis & Keyword Research Report Today Complete the Form Below or follow this link to see how Google Page 1 Domination looks.

‘Get 12 months for the price of 10 with this exclusive offer’.

We look forward to running your report.

Perry Stevens - Blend Local Search Marketing Consultant Perry Stevens – Founder of BLEND Local Search Marketing

This Offer is Now Closed

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