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SEO vs Google Ads: What Should a North East Business Put Its Money Into?

You know the feeling: you need more enquiries or sales, but you haven’t got months to sit around hoping the website “kicks in”. So you start looking at two obvious routes on Google — SEO and Google Ads — and it quickly turns into a head-scratcher. One promises longer-term growth, the other promises speed. Both…

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Meta Tagging Masterclass (Part 1): The Basics Small Businesses Actually Need

You know what’s frustrating? You’ve paid for a nice-looking website, your services are spot on, and people in the North East genuinely need what you do… but your site still isn’t pulling its weight. Or worse: you’re showing up on Google, but nobody’s clicking. That usually means your shop window in the search results isn’t…

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5 Ways Responsive Web Design Benefits Your SEO (and Turns Visits into Leads)

You know the crack: you Google your own business on your phone, click your site… and it’s a bit of a mess. Text is tiny, buttons are awkward, the page jumps about, and before you’ve even found the phone number you’re thinking, ‘If I’m annoyed, customers must be bouncing straight off.’

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7 traits your engineering website must improve if you’re serious about generating new leads

In this post, I’m going to share everything I know about attracting good prospective engineering clients into your business. I’ve separated the post into 7 traits which contain the most important aspects of a professional engineering website. Improving any of these traits will help increase the productivity of your website – generating leads for your…

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Use the Google Hummingbird update to boost your web traffic

The new hummingbird update is a significant change to the way Google indexes websites, and if you’re spending time and money on SEO then it’s vital that you ensure you are making the correct adjustments to remain as high as you can in search results for your trade. Our guide shows how Google provides an…

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A Wordpress site plus Google Maps registration is great SEO for local business.

While we cannot usually guarantee 1st place on Google – certainly not in the first few weeks after a website launch – but that’s exactly what doubleglazingrepairsne.co.uk have within weeks of us building the site for them for the keywords “double glazing north east”. While a wordpress site is known to achieve good search listings,…

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Search Engine Optimisation Basics

A lot of our work at Baltic Blog Design has been for very successful affiliates, and we think its worth sharing some tips and good SEO methodology that we’ve learnt or picked up along our merry way. Search Engine Optimisation, that was first left to hard working affiliates to figure out has now becoming a…

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