Doing SEO on wool & felt site for Christmas marketing

SEO Marketing Preparation for Wool & Felt website

Doing SEO on wool & felt site for Christmas marketing
Apart from the obvious skills such as the ability to optimise web pages and websites, build high quality links and use popular social media tools such as Google Plus, Facebook and Twitter, a search engine optimisation consultant also need to be able to play well in advance.

Discussing search engine marketing plans with some SEO consultants at UK webmaster forum, I was quite surprised to find out that some started SEO work on their clients site as early as July on keywords they are trying to get ranked in time for Christmas and new year period.

Taking my cue from this early birds, I started working on one of my long term SEO client’s website in middle of September (which is quite early by my standards). One of the most interesting things of the site in question is the fact that makes handmade presents, which lends itself to seasonal goods and services that tends to be in abundance in the lead up to and after Christmas, however there is an very unique product which the client sells: thick wool felt which is quite unique to this client. This wool felt product will be the lead produce we will be pushing for this customer in the build up to our SEO marketing.

You can join the discussions about search engine marketing and other SEO related issues at UK webmaster forum.

Google Plus – run circles not rings around your friends

With Google Plus run circles not rings around your friends
When it comes to innovative computer technology, Apple is the acknowledged leader in this field, when it come to innovating on the Internet, Google is the master, well, in most stuff especially search related. When it comes to social media, Facebook is way ahead so it is quite unusual for Google to find itself playing catch up in social media.

When the social media penny finally dropped for Google, the come up with an answer, Google Plus ! . It is mile and mile behind Facebook in terms of membership but then again, Google Plus is not actually launched yet, you cannot even use it unless you are invited but even when its completed and open to the public, it is highly unlikely that it will attract the level of usage Facebook already has. Knowing how powerful Google can be when it come to technology and innovation, they are certainly going to give pricing as many social networking addict from Facebook as possible.

Google are already succeeding in winning converts to Google Plus, it just by the fact that you can separate people you are connected with info what they actually mean to you for example you can create a circle for your friends, a circle for your family etc etc as oppose to Facebook’s definition of anyone and every one you want to network with or who wants to network with you as friends.

If you have not yet been invited to test drive Google Plus, you may want to do so, its quite and interesting new social media platform. Its has a lot of downside which hopefully Google will sort out before it rolled out. Some of the things I find annoying includes its unfriendly url and not so intuitive user interface but over all, its worth giving a go. You will find a link to where you can get invites for Google plus in the paragraph below.

More Google Plus Resources:
Temi’s Google Plus page
Free Google Plus Invites
UK Google Plus Forums
Google’s Discussion Forum