Jonathan Bowker hits the Top 3

For a few days now Jonathan Bowker has been in the top 3 on Google. Considering there is very little online content for google to trawl this is a surprisingly good result. Our advice if the goal was to secure no.1 position would be to add more content to the landing page and engage in an on-going link building programme.

Cuurently jut a landing page this could easily be modified into a one page website

However purely from an experimental point of view this has demonstrated the value of PickSEO's low cost search engine optimisation package

Copythorne garage - New Website

Close to completion a revamped Copythorne garage website to reflect the Art Deco architecture of the workshop.




Particularly fond of the history photos which reinforce the style of the web design.

Seo services for Copythorne are on-going even though they are no.1 on Google Places for Copythorne Garage. There are more searches to cover to hit more local search results.

The garage owner, already very busy with work, hopes to continue to benefit from an improved website rather than relying on expensive ad campaigns with the yellow pages.

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Jonathan Bowker rises into the top 5 on page1

Well less than 48 hours into the challenge and Jonathan Bowker's Photography landing page hits No.4 on googles first page. Not sure if we can get higher without more content but we will keep you posted!

Jonathan has commented this morning "That is brilliant!"

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Jonathan Bowker Update

Well 12 hours in to the challenge we have at least some news on Jonathan Bowkers photgraphy site.

First of all, last night Jonathan checked the first 46 pages of google and he was not found. Some 460 results a search even the most dedicated of web surferss would have trouble justifying.

The site sitemap for what it is has been submitted and the site url submission is in as well as validation of ownership in webmaster tools and a few links have been created. Results?? Well the site now is indexed and shows if you google the full domain.

The interesting point will obviously be when it appears in the first few pages for the search phrase "jonathan bowker".

We will keep you posted. View Jonathan Bowker's Photography landing page

Jonathan Bowker - Photographer

Every SEO challenge is different but this one is an interesting experiment without doubt.

If you buy a domain with the exact phrase you want to search for and the search isnt all that common. Just how long would it take us to get Jonathan Bowker to NO.1 on google.

The competition is mostly linked in, pehaps facebook and the like but how much of an advantage is the url.

Well there is one fun way of finding out. The work starts here.

Jonathan Bowker approached us with the request for a landing page or online business card as we call it. He was surprised that even though he had the domain it did not immediately rank with google and asked us to see what we could do.

So here we are the 1st of February 2011 7.30pm UK time. Lets get started!


Jonathan Bowker - Photography

Ever wondered what keywords your competitors are using?

When you start out creating a new website a good first step is to establish who your competitors are. Having established your competitors you may have wondered what keywords they are using to get top rankings on google.

Simply open the web page of your competitor then

Select > VIEW > SOURCE from the menu bar of explorer. See below



This will open a text file showing the source code of that web page.

In most cases this will show you the meta title, meta description and meta keywords and give you a better insight into words you should be using in your own website to gain first page listings on google

Picking your keywords

One of your first chores when setting up your business will be to pick the right name. Your url might not match your business for example B&Q use diy.com but what you must do is think of phrases your customers will use to search for your business.





For PickSEO the obvious ones seem to be SEO , Search engine optimisation and Affordable web design.


A quick google of your keyphrases reveals a number of things.

First you will see the number of results.

For example:

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As you will see this produces a staggering 130 million results so if you want to be first page for this phrase you will have your work cut out. If your phrase throws up results of a million or less then chances are we can get you first page in a matter of weeks.

You will also find out who comes top! and you can look at the code they use to optimise their front page. Which we can explain in a later article (we'll put a link here)

The other key tool when picking keywords is the google adword tool.

This is a fantastic free resource to identify keywords for your business that you might otherwise ignore. You will be able to see how often a keyphrase is searched in your country (local monthly) and get helpful suggestions for phrases too! Try it out. then contact us to get you search engine optimisation (SEO) underway