Today, my faithful blog readers (I’m sure there’s a handful of you out there and that I’m not just talking to myself) we’re going to talk about getting found locally for local companies. In this short post I’m going to use NorthSouthMedia as an example and the key search phrase will be “Ayrshire SEO Company“.
I’ve started using the region that I service the most, that being “Ayrshire” and also the service which my company offers “SEO“. Now, from digging around a little I’ve found out that there are 64 towns in Ayrshire with an overall population of around 375,000 and I want to be found everytime when someone types “SEO Company” for that particular Ayrshire town. Understandably, being in my line of work, it’ll be more likely that businesses, groups or entrepreneurial individuals would require an Ayrshire SEO Company rather than everyone in the region.
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If you’re a business who devotes a segement of your resources to improving your online profile then it’s most likely you’ll have several social media profiles such as 
It might not be apparent to the average Google user but Google did away with its Real Time Search functionality – you might remember the automated scrolling box that appeared in Google’s results for relevant news items. You could also search under the ‘Updates‘ link on the left hand navigation bar. 
It will be cliche to say that the internet is vastly infinite. Across the planet, there are about 1.8 billion active web surfers who come online. Plus, there are probably billions upon trillions of websites that can be visited on a daily basis. If you are running your own website, shouldn’t you be doing something to make it to stand out from the crowd?
Today, I slapped myself on the wrist – hard – not because it was something that I had to do, or even wanted to do, but as a necessary step in stopping myself from letting something get so bad in the future. OK, I’ve been busy, so busy that I have rarely posted on this blog, but that excuse apart I should have really been keeping a close eye on my outbound links.
After taken a week and a bit break from blogging, social networking etc.. I thought it was time to jump back on the bandwagon and get things moving again. Before I started getting into the grind, I had a wee peak at Google Webmaster Tools where I noticed a number of links coming from a site called Shownar.
WordPress Comments Blank Page Problem
After the recent WordPress 2.9.2 update I noticed that the comments within this blog stopped working – I have since noticed the same problem across a few other self-hosted wordpress sites.
The problem comes about after a user has posted a comment to an article and then they are greeted by a blank screen from the wp-comments-post.php – seems at first the page just won’t redirect back to the original post.
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