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Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by Ashley Roberts, Jul 15, 2009.

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    Hi everyone,
    I have recently launched my new website. I want to promote my business on the web, please give me suggestions how to market a business particularly in the UK?
    Thanks
     
    Ashley Roberts, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    If you want to get your website in Search engines good ranking then start SEO of your Website, Inserting Meta tags, good content and link building of your site. and other way is you try for Digital marketing Solution which includes a large number of legitimate methods to increase your website’s visibility and to promote your products and/or services on the web.
     
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    Hi Ashley Roberts,

    You could use Google Adwords promote your business in the Google search egnine and specifically target UK viewers only. Googles Adwords program allows you to choose the keywords you wish to target, set maximum bids for clicks, create your own ads, etc. If you would like help with using Adwords then please contact me.

    To rank high in the organic search results in search engines such as Google you need to: have high quality content, optimise your site and build backlinks from other high quality and relevant sites. There are millions of threads, blog posts, articles, etc. on the website with methods to build such backlinks, so make sure you check it out.

    There are also a number of companies and individuals out there that offer search engine marketing services, so if you do not have the time or expertise you could hire someone to help you out with this. To find someone you could do a google search, ask anyone who know who has a website if they could recommend someone or check out the services section of this forum. Make sure to check out some of their past work/clients as you could be making a big problem for yourself if you hire someone dodgy. If your hiring someone to help you with adwords make sure that they are qualified by Google.

    Hope this helps,
    Brennan :)
     
    Brennan, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    I love how posters ask for help, but they do not put forth the effort and time to write out a decent post.

    What is the business about? What is your site?

    Are you talking about ads and or organic traffic?

    Don't just about all of the folks in your country see the same search engine ads as we, the U.S. sees? So isn't the question of how to market a business particularly in the UK irrelavant???
     
    copper12, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    Not really because there are a lot of ways to target the UK market.
     
    Brennan, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    you can use SEO for long term... and for short term u can use PPC marketing like adword and YSM
     
    Double-S, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    you need either hire some guys do seo for your site or just do ppc.
     
    mylovegrm, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    There is another alternative, they could do some simple SEO themselves.
     
    Brennan, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    How so, Brennan?
     
    Perry Rose, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    Hi Ashley Roberts,

    I am also in the UK and there are many ways of promoting your business here. I would agree with SEO and PPC advice and ability to make them country-specific. But many things depend, really, on what type of business you promote. Assuming that you want UK visitors I could think mostly about selling goods. In this case a good starting point could be BT Tradespace.

    Hope this helps,

    ExpertC
     
    expertC, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    - Meta tags
    - Link building
    - Adding quality content
    - Sitemap
    - etc.


    Do you not believe DIY SEO is an alternative to mylovegrms solution of "hire some guys do seo for your site"?
     
    Brennan, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    Use Social bookmarking sites of UK. Place free classifieds in classifieds websites. Do blog comments. Participate in forums.
     
    facebookapp, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    you should start SEO marketing as well as PPC but PPC is for short term
     
    engr.adeel, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    Brennan, that's the same thing everybody does, so the question still stands: Don't just about all of the folks in the UK see the same search engine ads as we, the U.S. sees? So isn't the question of how to market a business particularly in the UK irrelavant???
     
    Perry Rose, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    No, because if someone in the UK does a google search they will see different search results than if someone in the US does a google search for the same thing. To market to UK, they should build links from UK sites, have a .co.uk domain, be hosted on UK servers and even possibly include UK cities or terms in the meta tags.
     
    Brennan, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    I know, but this is the question she asked:

    But she isn't even participating in her own thread, so heck with it.
     
    Perry Rose, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    The best option will be PPC advertsing ..
    try adwords or yahoo business..
    You can also use SEO tools to improve page ranking in google.
     
    bluebelt91, Jul 18, 2009 IP
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    Google likes to give extra boost to local sites, e.g.

    google.co.uk gives some boost to co.uk sites hosted in uk,
    australian google favors australian sites;

    Use this to your advantage
     
    hbl, Jul 18, 2009 IP
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    always SEO locally place ads on local classified directories and try to get back links from co.uk blogs sites etc
     
    MrPJH, Jul 18, 2009 IP
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    One of the easiest way is to spend some $ for adwords programs ( conducted by google ). FOr even 1 cent You can get user, and You spend 100$ and get 10 000 user, some of them will become You good members.
     
    alfiwodo, Jul 18, 2009 IP