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Hey Will,

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond to me, its really appreciated. Your points are valid and there is a couple of things you have mentioned which had completely passed me by.

I wonder if you have time to answer another "local" question. I am increasingly getting clients come to me with what can only be described as a portfolion of local domains such as plumbercity.co.uk, plumbercitysuburb1.co.uk, plumbercitysuburb2.co.uk etc etc. Am I right in thinking that these additional domains are pretty much useless as possible type ins and might even cause reputation problems if they are linked in as landing pages ?

Thanks in advance

Nick

Hi there,

I have tried the tools here, and they are BRILLIANT but maybe to much for me. I just wondered if anyone in the UK had time to give me some advice. A lot of my customers are small businesses (mainly trades, like plumbers, builders etc etc), and I am trying to find best practices for getting them more quality traffic amidst a lot of competition. One customer I am working with currently has 50+ competitiors for his small plumbing business that are within 5 miles of him and have an effective web prescence. In those circumstances (take it as read that I have killed myself creating quality content that I am proud of for this client), does anyone have any killer advice for me that could make my sites more effective ? If anyone does have the time I am more than willing to PM the URL I am working with at the moment.

Thanks for your time..

Journeyman, you may have just postponed a coronary - I was seriously being so careful when rebuilding this site from what I considered to be basically an ugly but effective site.....thanks again.

Thats a great tool I have bookmarked, but it's showing no signs that anything caused a massive problem - that said its only up to the 25th of last month and the problem I have started a couple of days ago.

According to google webmaster tools my landing pages just dropped from 1300 impressions 2 days ago to zero for the past 2 days. Have attached snippet of graph, URL of website is http://www.cheapcentralheating.co.uk - I have no idea whats happened here, and if anyone can advise or help I would be extremely grateful.

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Thats a great tool I have bookmarked, but it's showing no signs that anything caused a massive problem - that said its only up to the 25th of last month and the problem I have started a couple of days ago.