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Hi Ocelot

Wow they have a few Facebook fans don't they!!

I agree how many of these will actually be customers though ??

The customer social recommendation is a great idea to explore but how knowing us Brits they hard part will be getting them to actually do this!!

Customers are very quick to head to social media when they have a complaint but not as quick to praise!!

I guess the best strategy would be to "Just Ask"

I have found happy customers in the past to be quite accommodating

I am sure there could be ways to help incentivise these social recommendations but you may be heading down a slightly grey area.

Kind Regards

James

Hello Guys

I have just tried to set-up a new campaign for this site http://www.emsababies.co.uk/

HoweverI keep getting this error ??

campaign.crawl-seed.bad-response

Anyone know what I am doing wrong ??

Cheers

James

Hi Marcus,

Thanks so much for adding some more really great suggestions to this post.

The NAP consistency is something I will look into ASAP

Kind Regards

James

Thanks for the reply

it's a good point about the disavowed links I had not thought of this

Blogger outreach is something we are keen to look at further, however many wedding bloggers will only offer sponsored content or side bar adverts.

Other websites seem to be paying for these do-follow links but I was keen to try and avoid anything that may lead to a future penalty ??

It's annoying that others seems to be doing this and getting away with it!!

Kind Regards

James

Thanks for the reply Marcus,

We are increasing our PPC at the moment as we can measure this and it seems to be quite effective so far.

Our site was always ranking first position of Google Maps but has recently dropped so got to try and figure out why ??

The strange thing is we now have a vanity URL on Google+ and out of most of the other local venues we are really the only ones active on Google+ ??

Regarding hitched.co.uk we came off a few of the big directories a few years back as they just just kept pushing the prices up and at last they were trying to get us to pay over £1,000 per year for a listing!!  and I assumed as these were no-follow probably not worth the money ??

We have a website refresh planned soon and I am hoping to add some more video content and of course we plan to keep producing high quality blog content.

Thanks agin for your input and advice I was feeling a bit disheartened earlier

Hi Guys,

We are new to MOZ and just getting some data on one of our projects Shottle Hall

This is a wedding venue in Derbyshire and as you can imagine it's quite a competitive niche.

We have been working with them to help build website content and build natural links.

However we are against a lot of sites that have obviously had lots of "questionable" SEO work done in the past and these sites are still ranking above Shottle Hall

One competitor has lots of links from very low quality blogs - that they have obviously made themselves

http://derbyshire-attractions.blogspot.co.uk/

Another site is ranking well and is buying banner links that pass page rank

http://whimsicalwonderlandweddings.com/

This really makes me think should we be doing these tactics ??

We are told by Google that this is not the way to rank but I am very disheartened by these facts!!

Hello Ocelot

Have you thought about maybe trying a Facebook photo competition ??

Maybe you could ask people to send in pics of a part of the house they would like improving and why they should win the prize ??

New windows, falling down gutters, new conservatory etc

You could then ask people to get as many "Likes" and shares as possible to help them win the prize.

You would have overall control who wins and would obviously pick a good PR story so you can then get more content about who and why they won... more photos of them getting the new windows etc

This would be a great local papers story too.

Here is a link to a company I have used before for Photo comp

http://woobox.com/

Hope this helps

James

Little Blue Ninja

Hello Guys

I have just tried to set-up a new campaign for this site http://www.emsababies.co.uk/

HoweverI keep getting this error ??

campaign.crawl-seed.bad-response

Anyone know what I am doing wrong ??

Cheers

James