Local SEO – Improving Visibility
Ranking highly in local searches empowers a small business. An effective local strategy for "Canterbury and Kent"
AI is disrupting and reshaping web design, web searches and online marketing. We help small business owners in Kent adapt to the new landscape and then generate more leads from their websites.
The answer is most probably yes.
But first it will have to jump through a few hoops.
1. To attract more visitors it must be easy to find online. It needs improved visibility.
2. To create more engagement you must hold a visitors attention and then give them exactly what they came looking for. It needs relatability with empathy.
3. To generate more leads it must compel the visitor to take some action and actually do something. It needs a lead magnet.
February 2024 - Updates focussed on showcasing our client's new building projects, improving local search visibility and generating new leads.
Now 'A' graded for speed and 98% rated for performance (GT Metrix test 19/4/24).
Fast loading using .webp and reduced size .jpg formats for improved page load speed.
Happy on a mobile, tablet, laptop or desktop device. Mobile first and width aware.
UX (user experience) improved on all device sizes with larger mobile buttons.
Ranking in Google and Bing is ongoing and improves gradually each month.
Helping visitors to understand the strengths and skills of the business.
Is your business website more than two and a half years old?
If it is you should be thinking seriously about bringing it up to date.
AI is quickly reshaping how we all do business. Keep your business website and brand visibility ahead of the pack.
Ranking highly in local searches empowers a small business. An effective local strategy for "Canterbury and Kent"
Online website builders are quick, cheap and easy. They can also tie you in knots that are hard to untangle as you grow.
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Fast and clean on a mobile. Innovative and memorable on a desktop. Optimised monthly for search. Developed to help your business achieve more. Securely hosted and maintained. In a word, loved.
To generate enquiries a business website's home page must catch the attention of a new visitor and immediately make a connection. It should introduce itself as a credible and potential solution to the search query (if any) that the visitor made to find it.
The logo and branding must convey expertise and professionalism before a visitors trust can hope to be won.
Satisfying Google's 'EEAT' benchmark is now foundational for B2B websites. Demonstrating credibility is crucial to marketing success in 2024. Your brand messaging must resonate with the target audience before a relationship can begin and then progress.
This is particularly important within the financial, legal and consultancy service sectors where establishing trust is paramount.
We have improved the visual identity and web marketing strategies of many businesses over the years. From start ups through to long established practices and from individuals through to large consultancies.
Being a compact, but full service creative agency in Canterbury, we are able to offer a comprehensive but uniquely bespoke service to local clients at an affordable price. We specialise in website design and optimisation in 2024 but also have three decades of experience in graphic design and print management.
In that time we have created logos, branding and collateral marketing materials for hundreds of businesses in London and across Kent.
We've even worked on projects with a couple of major public service organisations including the London Fire Brigade.
A business website should load quickly, securely and incorporate a modern CMS (Content Management System). It should be simple to use, allowing a logged in user to carry out business tasks quickly and easily.
Creating a quotation, updating an FAQ, publishing a blog post or simply checking on site visitors. Empowering business website owners to do more and save time.
Most new website builds and onboards incorporate our PHP application framework CMS as standard, allowing us to integrate a wide range of tools from an early stage.
Fast page updates, custom Web Apps, analytics reporting and customised databases can be configured and deployed as required with full support and training.
We take a pragmatic approach to solving clients problems and prefer a minimal, less is more approach when developing website CMS interfaces.
Having the flexibility to create and then develop custom solutions allows us to concentrate on helping clients get what they need and when they need it. Scaleable and cost effective web development helps start ups and SMEs to improve their customer services and streamline their marketing systems as they grow.
A timeline for scaleable growth within a time frame that suits you. And without breaking the bank.
A business website must be easily found via multiple channels and touch points to succeed on today's crammed web. To rank within a search engine's results pages or gain popularity within a targeted social media group a website needs to be well structured, secure and reasonably fast loading.
Naturally written and market aware content that is genuinely helpful and has been thoughtfully optimised for the audience is a prerequisite for AI led search algorithms. From a visitors perspective the messaging needs to be instantly engaging.
Page content and user experience must satisfy search intent, giving the visitor reasons to investigate the website further and to hopefully return.
The days of promising to make a business number one on Google for every search are coming to an end. There are too many variables and AI is becoming too smart.
Keywords, although still important will soon be much less dominant when trying to be found online.
Search intent will lead AI driven, generative search engines to consider brands as a whole when suggesting solutions.
The development of search from returning a page with a static list, to delivering an interactive portal of related information is already underway.
AI now determines how and why to recommend one brand above another when deciding how meaningful it's services might be to a user on Google or Bing. This needs to be factored into any marketing campaign where a business leaves its digital footprint.
Authenticity, credibility and reputation are quickly becoming the dominant factors in ranking for keywords and search related phrases, as scams and cyber crime make trust one of the most important ingredients in the marketing mix.
We encourage clients to be honest, realistic and hard working when planning their marketing objectives and goals related to SEO and online visibility.
Having a solid and organically grown online base creates stability for a brand, building a stable platform for future growth. More focussed and directed multi-channel marketing campaigns can then be planned and executed.