Web | Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
What Google knows about your site
Find out what they found out about your site...
Google and the other search engines hold data about your web presence, including:
- How many times your site is returned in search results
- How often visitors click through to your site from search results
- Keywords they used to find you
- Web sites linking to you
- Advice on how you can make your site more ‘crawlable’
- …and more
They have opened up access to some of the information they hold to verified owners of sites. This valuable information will help you understand the intent of visitors to your site and optimise it for the type of visitors you wish to attract.
Map Results
You may have noticed that when you search for a service, followed by a place name (such as “manchester plumbers”), a number of companies are returned in the ‘map results’ (they have a small red marker next to the results, corresponding to map markers).
If you haven’t done so already, it is relatively straightforward to verify that you do business where you do and increase the chances of being returned more highly in the map results.
And finally…
We’ll expand on this rather pithy post in due course. If you need any help in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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