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The Witney Gardener

Thanks for this Donna. Happy New Year by the way!

I am trying to rank for 'garden services witney' and am currently coming in 5th. If you see the map, I am in the actual town and the 4 comp above me are in the next village.

Am I wasting my time optimizing for this?

It's a totally different story for 'Gardener Witney'.

Cheers Donna,

This is very interesting. So basically as 4 of my comp are in a village just on the outside of my town that this is the centre?

It's definitely low competition and I have more citations, links and reviews than everyone else. Still sitting in 5th place though.

Will continue with videos

Yep got a video up but it sits on page three for its keywords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tPwy7oO7qs

Hi all,

I am just setting up a local organic garden maintenance business in my home town.

I have set up the website, got social media accounts active (FB, Twitter and G+), set up google local listing (currently 5th in the local maps thingy), I have done loads of citations (many more than my competitors, but not a ridiculous amount), I've got 4 customer reviews on google so far, checked my DA against my competitors (mine 1, my comps 8-9), checked my comps links (less than 10) and been writing a blog on my website every couple of days.

I realise the one thing I have against me is that my domain is just less than a month old. How long until google builds a bit of trust in it to see it come up in the serps?

Also, I would love some ideas of what else I can be doing in the mean time. The idea here is to get the site rocking on all cylinders before the gardening season starts again in March. Do-able?