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The start of the New Year is the time when we all review the previous year and compare performance with the previous year. Of course this activity can (and should) happen throughout the year, but it is in January that.....SEO article - Which websites get more website traffic over Christmas?
Christmas Day is a low day for many websites, but not all. There are some websites which see a large increase in traffic from Christmas Day onwards and these include tourism and holiday websites, health and healthcare.....SEO article - Recent research on SEO Scientist backs up our SEO policy
A recent comment (July 12th, 2009) on SEO Scientist suggest “it may be worth our while to go for the long-tail traffic”, a tactic Cornish WebServices have been using very successfully for many years. The.....SEO article - Four fold increase in visitors for waste management company website
A growing business sees more visitors to its website The Countrystyle website has seen a four-fold increase in natural visitors to its website in recent months following a website redesign and search engine.....SEO article - 180% increase in first month
Initial SEO work by Cornish WebServices for Ashford based Orbital Response & Fulfilment has started off with impressive results. Within the first month natural visitors to the website have increased by.....SEO article - Medical Insurance company provider gains visibility
Medical insurance and private healthcare plans are a competitive market. Patient Choice provide a competitive private healthcare policy called Patient Access and the Hospital Treatment Plan. Cornish WebServices have.....SEO article - SEO success: Private healthcare policy and medical insurance
Private medical treatment is increasingly popular, and some medical insurance policies such as PatientChoice Access or Hospital Treatment Plan allow you to buy the treatment you require with a budget provided by.....SEO article - Economic downturn impacts the traditional Working Lunch
A new-era for business lunches? Venturi’s Table are providing ‘cook –you-own’ business lunches for client entertainment. Is this a clever marketing trick or a new business product. It is.....SEO article - Hospital Treatment Plan reaches top place on Google
Cornish WebServices are providing SEO services for Patient Choice, a provider of private medical insurance. This is a competitive search market place, but one of the main target keyword phrases hospital.....SEO article - Links manager Software - or how to risk losing your website ranking
Increase web traffic without expensive PPC Increase search rankings without paying for expert SEO Effective Affordable Link building Does this sound too good to be true? Maybe it is. Cornish.....SEO article - Natural website visitors increase by 350%
The Countrystyle Group provides a complete range of waste management solutions for all commercial businesses. They can supply a variety of waste management containers varying in size from 1100 litres to 40 cu.....SEO article - SEO for Orbital Response and Fulfilment
Orbital Marketing Services Group have asked Cornish WebServices to help with improving the Internet visibility of their websites. The Group employs over 400 people across a number of sites in the UK and.....SEO article - Security Guard website remains at top of Google.
Dominion Securities, a company providing security guards and security guard services in London have now enjoyed very high natural rankings in organic Google as a result of SEO work by Cornish WebServices. Dominion.....SEO article - Long term SEO success - website on top page for 4 years
The best value search engine optimisation produces consistent long term high rankings even in very competitive markets. Cornish WebServices are delighted that some of their business clients for search engine.....SEO article - How many keywords should an SEO campaign target?
How many Keywords do you target? This is easy to ask but difficult to answer, other than it depends upon many factors such as: the search market the client's priorities the website content the.....SEO article - Disadvantages of search engine indexed pages
Can there be too many pages indexed in the search engines? There are many instances when it is BAD or harmful for search engines such as Google to have indexed pages on your website. Preventing inappropriate pages.....SEO article - Is keyword selection important for SEO ?
We used to say YES. That keyword selection is important for SEO. But maybe the answer should be NO! Now that's controversial! This is an update of an article first written by Cornish WebServices in 2007 as part of a.....SEO article - SEO and Meta Tags
What are 'Meta Tags' ? Meta Tags are part of the website code, located within the header section. They define various aspects about the document. There are a large number of META tags, but just a few that are.....SEO article - Consistent SEO results - management consultant
Basford management consultants frequently recommend Cornish WebServices to other businesses, and for good reason. Their website appears on the top page of Google.co.uk for the competitive phrase ‘management.....SEO article - Disadvantages of SEO
Does SEO have any disadvantages? Yes, there are disadvantages or risks associated with SEO on a website, and they are not often considered. SEO (search engine optimisation) is the process of making a website achieve.....SEO article - Geography and SEO
What has Geography got to do with SEO? According to some SEO companies, not a lot. But Cornish WebServices SEO team think this is important. Note that this is an update of an earlier article on this.....SEO article - SEO and copy writing
What has copy writing got to do with SEO ? Surprisingly we still get asked this! We are presented with a completed website for which the design and copy has been 'finalised and signed off' and asked to do some 'search.....SEO article - SEO and Geotargeting
What is Geotargeting? Geotargeting means targeting a smaller market segment divided by geography. This could be country specific or it could be regional or based on town, village or famous local attraction. It is.....SEO article - A lighthearted look at SEO
What is SEO? Some Definitions. This depends who you ask! If you are interested in birds, then SEO is Sociedad Española de Ornitología (Spanish bird society). This is the equivalent of the UK’s.....SEO article - Reciprocal links risk and detection
It appears Yahoo may be taking a lead on Google over better penalising websites which SEO agencies have optimised using dubious inbound link generation. The links detection patent filed by Yahoo earlier this year.....SEO article - Significant rise in visitors from search engines following website launch.
Cornish WebServices designed a built a new website for Concorde language school, with the aim of increasing website visibility. The figure below using real data shows just how visitor number are increasing. The data.....SEO article - Is page content important for SEO ?
Is page content important for SEO ? Yes! But by page content we mean what a search engine sees as page content. It is amusing to see how many shops look identical to Google. Remove the images. Remove any text in a.....SEO article - SEO Glossary of Terms
The following are commonly used terms within SEO (search engine optimisation) and a brief explantaion of their meaning. Anchor text The anchor text is the clickable text of a link. It is important for natural search,.....SEO article - SEO - targeting the longer keyword phrases
What do you do when your main target keywords are consistently at the top of the search engines? Although many businesses may be satisfied that their website is doing well and getting all the traffic it can from the.....SEO article - Google Search experiments with personalised search
Google Search experiments with personalised search Date: 03/03/2004 Google is testing a new personlised search giving users the option to customise the search results to their particular requirements. How.....SEO article - Three-way (3-way) links
Firstly Cornish WebServices do not operate 3-way link building schemes as we believe them to be against Google policy and risk client websites from being banned by Google. What are 3-way links? A 3-way linking policy.....SEO article - Disadvantages of Search Engine Optimisation
Are there any disadvantages with Search Engine Optimisation? Yes, and they are not often considered. This may be because in general a search engine optimised website is good marketing asset for any organisation, but.....SEO article - SEO work for Kent Tourism Association (KTA)
Visit Kent’s The Other Boleyn Girl Site Gets an SEO Makeover Cornish WebServices has given Visit Kent’s The Other Boleyn Girl site an SEO makeover in time for the films DVD launch (30th June). The Other.....SEO article - Search Engine optimisation for UK portable cold storage
Search Engine optimisation for UK portable cold storage Irish company CRS have asked Cornish WebServices to be responsible for their UK website, aimed at selling portable cold storage and freezers in the UK.....SEO article - Ten fold increase in natural search leads from Google
Ten fold increase in natural search leads from Google The end of the financial year is a good time to review the performance of many websites in terms of how effective they are at generating traffic. Companies with a.....SEO article - More SEO work required on pharmacy consulting website
More SEO work required on pharmacy consulting website Back in 2004, Cornish Webservices provided some SEO work for a Pharmacy consultant, and as a result his website moved to the top page of Google. Nothing unsual.....SEO article - Where do all your leads come from? Another client compliment for SEO work
I'm just phoning to say I've given your details to yet another company "I was taking with a business contact the other day, and he started questioning me on where all my leads were coming from. So I suggested he.....SEO article - Search Engine Optimisation success
Search Engine Optimisation success "I see that our rankings on google have improved dramatically - 8th for xx xx and 19th for xx xx. Thanks for your efforts." Search engine optimisation is hard work.....SEO article - Personalised search on Google
Personalised search on Google Personalised Search is one of the next developments being gradually rolled out by Google. This month there have been changes to the way on which google.com handles cookies, so that.....SEO article - Sitemaps for search engines - can they be dangerous?
It has generally been accepted for some time (at least in published articles) that search engine sitemaps are a good thing and benefit search engine rankings. This is still often the case. But can they actually be.....SEO article - Cornish WebServices promote Faversham based International Air Charter on the Internet
Cornish WebServices are to help promote Faversham based International Air Charter on the Internet International Air Charter provide private charter flights for executives enabling them to travel quickly in first.....SEO article - Google trying to penalise paid links
Google trying to penalise paid links Google is now actively encouraging webmasters to report ‘paid links’ so it can test a new part of its algorithm to give less weight to these paid links. This can.....SEO article - Search engine optimised website gets client new work
Search engine optimised website gets client new work "BTW I had a job as a direct result of the web site. I came up close to the top in his google enquiry. Obviously something works!" Peter Cornish.....SEO article
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