Customer Street SEO Articles & Help

Having concluded a report over the last two days on our 3 main local business directories, we have started to get a huge increase in traffic from Yahoo over the last 4 weeks. The increase is now up on the previous month by 375.40% which is great news for all our clients who have now more coverage on the search engines. Looking at Google its also up by 24.15%, which as we all know they get over 77% of all search traffic which in turn means that we had an extra 236,470 page views in the last month.

Over the last few hours we have added a new section to the right side of the Customerstreet SEO Blog. You will now see random trade specific directory images that we have produced to help our clients get found in the search engines for their specific business type.

There are 150 trade specific directories listed in the image rotator so if you refresh the page you will be shown some new directory images. Just click on the image and it will re-direct you to the directory you have chosen.

Two months at Customerstreet

It has been nearly two months I have been with Customerstreet; what a two months it has been. There is so much to do and not the time to do it. We have been looking into our trade specific directories and what we can do to improve them. Google Analytics has been a great help looking at the keywords most people have been typing in and looking at the existing text and making amendments to make the directories work harder for us so we receive more searches per trade specific directory.

Directory submissions if done right could be a great way to increase the number of links to your website and hence increasing your rankings. One major benefit the directory links provide is that the link would be from a highly relevant category to your site, which now days could be a factor in deciding the theme of your site and helping you rank better for keywords related to that topic.

When doing directory submissions there are several factors to look for in picking the right directories and not wasting your time or money.

Do they have a large exposure on the internet?