Local SEO

Local markets are often crucial to many small businesses and should therefore be high priority when it comes to the marketing of your services and products. Not only does proximity offer the ability to enhance sales, it can also play a pivotal role in creating a level of familiarity, both of which can prove to be hugely beneficial for any business.

Studies indicate that natural listings and Google Maps represent in excess of 80% of the clicks made by web users when they are looking for a local product or service. At Footprint Web Design our services are tailored to get you to the top of these whilst continuing to maximise the traffic streams to your website.

Local SEO services we offer

By placing an emphasis on the most beneficial areas of SEO, our local SEO marketing techniques can often take less time to produce effective results, therefore quickly helping to increase the levels of traffic to your website.

Footprint Web Design’s expertise in all aspects of SEO offers the chance to receive a swift and effective ROI.

• Top of the Google’s Listings with Footprint Web Design Local SEO –Footprint Web Design and our team of SEO experts possess all of the skills needed to get your business to the top of Google’s natural listings and to appear on Google Maps & Places. These are vital if you want people locally to easily find your small business.
• Achieving Fast Results –Google’s PPC (Pay Per Click) platform, Adwords, offers the most effective method of quickly attracting business on the internet. We will get your PPC Marketing up and running for you and have customers finding your business and services in the shortest possible period of time.
• Social Media Interactions With Customers –Social Media for business is the fastest growing method of opening lines of communication between a small business and its customers. By allowing you to offer updates, receive feedback and get in on what your customers want – all a very low cost – social media platforms are quickly becoming one of the primary advertising methods for businesses throughout the UK.

What We Do

Footprint Web Design are Local SEO Experts and local search is all we do; so if you are looking for more local customers and want them to keep on finding your website over and over again we can help. We will ensure the SEO investment into your site will pay you back again and again and again.

Rather than targeting terms which may look great but are unlikely to prove beneficial, our local SEO services have been created to generate relevant traffic to your website from local searches which are proven to offer greater benefits.

Further Information

If you’d like to speak to us regarding any of our services, including our online marketing services, please give us a call on 01883 372488 or contact us via Facebook and we’ll be happy to talk you through your options.

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Do you think that your website is performing as well as it could? Whilst SEO can certainly help any company looking to help make the most from their website, it’s not just limited to big businesses. Small businesses may have even more to gain by the 4 benefits outlined below:

1. Increased conversion rates (customers spending more money!!)
2. Creating increased trust with your clients
3. Advertising the keeps on giving (unlike some forms of advertising such as leaflet and newspaper advertising, SEO is designed to keep on giving)
4. Increased feedback (the ability to leave reviews can be key in opening lines of communication with your customers)

Every business owner should have the goal of reaching page one on Google for terms relating to their products and services. The importance of being easily found on the internet couldn’t be any higher and whilst it can be tough to get there, once you are there SEO can become the investment that just keeps on giving.

Modern Day Advertising

Unlike some traditional methods of advertising such as newspaper adverts or flyers, whilst an organic and well-planned SEO strategy can take a period of time to put into place, once the results start to come in, there is no upper limit to how great your ROI may become.

Depending on the type of business you run, the implementation of SEO does not have to cost a small fortune. Even small businesses which have a limited marketing budget will get effective help from SEO when it comes to increasing their visibility, rankings and more importantly, leads.

A Variety of Key Factors

There are a variety of external factors which are likely to determine just how difficult it will be to achieve a good ranking for a website and these factors are likely to vary greatly from business to business and sector to sector.

Although some competitive industries may require a larger SEO budget to achieve their desired results, through wise investment, many small businesses will be able to obtain the benefits of effective SEO which can make a significant difference to their business.

Further Information

If you’d like to speak to use regarding our ability to design you a quality website or perhaps how to maximise the potential of your existing website, please give us a call on 01883 372488 or contact us via Facebook and we’ll be happy to talk you through your options.

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Local SEO can prove to be the key marketing method for any business focusing on their local geographic area.

As with all areas of SEO, implementing local SEO is a constantly evolving process and factoring in these 3 key areas can be vital.

Location Is (Almost) Everything

For some time Google has tailored search results to the precise location of the person making the search.

However, Google is now taking this a step further by reducing the radius of the returned results to ensure that businesses based close to the person making the search will be given preference to those based further away.

This reduction in search radius is great news for anyone based away from the city centre as they now have a much better chance of showing up in locally based search results depending on the location of the searcher.

Mobile is Now a Clear No. 1

Avoided mobile marketing until now has been a mistake and this mistake is only going to grow in size.

With significantly more searches being completed on mobile devices than desktops and laptops, Google is now taking this very seriously.

This is in no small part due to the fact that because Google is now to determine a mobile user’s location with accurate precision, they can take the required steps to provide the most relevant results.

Reputation Is Essential

This is really nothing new. Since the beginning of trade, the reputation of a business has played a key role in their ability to grow.

With many business owners still finding customer reviews (and in particular negative ones) an annoyance which they do not take seriously, they are making a major mistake.

Both Google and potential customers take these reviews VERY seriously and it doesn’t take much homework to realise that online reviews show up frequently for all to see.

Not only does the volume and level of reviews help to build trust with your customer base, it is also a key signal to Google regarding the level of trust they should place in your business.

Contact Us

If you would like a chat about your website, please give the Footprint Web Design team a call on Tel. No. 01883 372488 today.

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It’s easy to forget just how important SEO can be for businesses. Just ask yourself how often you find yourself looking for the best Italian restaurant in your area or a plumber in your local area? If you are making online searches like this, just imagine how many other people are doing precisely the same thing.

If your business doesn’t target its local areas, particularly if you offer a range of services designed to be available within a particular area, you are potentially missing out on a huge amount of custom. Not only that, there is a very strong possibility that your competitors are a step ahead of you.

What is Local SEO?

To tap into an audience based in and around your local area, a technique known as ‘local SEO’ can prove to be invaluable. What exactly is local SEO though?

Essentially, the premise of local SEO is based upon using specific techniques to help push your website further up Google rankings for local search results.

For example, if you are a driving instructor in Surrey, achieving a high ranking for the following terms is very likely to prove beneficial for your business:

• Driving instructors Surrey
• Driving school Surrey
• Driving lessons Surrey

How Will This Help?

Whilst the more visible your business becomes the better, there are a number of other reasons why the implementation of effective SEO techniques can help your business.

Below we have outlined 3 of the most important.

1 – Creating Other Ways For People To Find Your Website

The creation of additional listings such as citations can play a key role in ensuring that your business gets plenty of visibility on the internet. Free business listings such as those available on Yell, Yelp, Thomson Local etc can play a key role in helping to offer additional options for people looking for your services.

2 – Increased Web Traffic

Whilst it is true that the amount of traffic coming to your website isn’t the be all and end all of SEO, it cannot be forgotten that without any visitors, your website is not going to be very productive!

The more visitors to your website = the better the chance of lead generation and revenue.

3 – Enhanced Customer Insight

Any successful business person will understand that the level of service they offer their customers is all important. Poor service will result in bad feedback, customers who do not return and no chance of recommendations.

The implementation of local SEO techniques will play a key role in opening up the channels of communication. Whilst no-one wants to hear negative comments about their business, some of the feedback which is receiving can be absolutely invaluable.

Contact Us

If you would like a chat about your website, please give the Footprint Web Design team a call on Tel. No. 01883 372488 today.

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