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8 Top Reasons to Definitely Use WordPress for Your Business’ Website

April 12th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

Our website is built on WordPress and we build most of our client websites on WordPress; we do this as we strongly believe that WordPress it is perfect for the small to medium sized business, but why? No. 1 – The world’s most widely used website system for businesses 25% all the world websites run [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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Google Plus Local Profile Picture Has Just Got BIGGER

March 8th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

If you have a Google Places or Google Plus Local listing, then you may or may not have noticed that your profile picture has just got bigger! You now have the opportunity to have a bigger picture to show off your business – a good thing. The more space you have for an image, the [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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12 Easy Ways to Publicise Your Blog Posts

February 13th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

The purpose of this blog post is to be a very quick guide as to stuff you should do to help promote the blog post you have just carefully written and uploaded to your blog. Is very important to promote the post you have just written, for if no one reads it, what is the [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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How Long Does Local SEO Take and why so much BS?

February 12th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

Why is it that there is so much BS surrounding what is really a very simple question – how long will my local SEO take? This post was inspired by two amazing posts by Phil Rozek of LocalVisibilitySystem.com titled: How Long Local SEO Takes: the Short Version and How Long Does Local-Search Visibility Take, please check them out (I also [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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How to make sure Google finds your local businesses name address & phone number (NAP)

February 7th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

For the local business it is very important to give Google as many clues as possible as to where you are located. For Local SEO it is really important to have your NAP correctly location on your site. As of time of writing the following is the best practice for doing this: Install the following [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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An Introduction To Google Analytics Video

January 30th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

The following is the recording of a seminar given by Jonathon Monk of Max Your Web to local business owners introducing Google Analytics Enjoy! Copy of the accompanying slides for follow. About Jonathon MonkLocal business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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5 Easy Steps to Being Found Locally On The Web Video

January 30th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

The following is the recording of a seminar given by Jonathon Monk of Max Your Web to local business owners on how to get your website found locally on Google. Enjoy! For a copy of the accompanying slides click here       About Jonathon MonkLocal business owner, love how Google is so great for making [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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How to get your UK business listed on Bing and Bing Maps (Nokia Prime Place)

January 14th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

This posts is a simple guide on how you add your UK business to Bing and Bing Maps Bing Listing (via 118) Bing have outsourced their UK business listings service to 118. To get your business citation on Bing go to: http://bing.my118information.co.uk/home.aspx Press ‘search’ and then enter the postcode of your business. A list of companies registered [...]

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About Jonathon Monk

Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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Guest Blogging – Using Quotation Marks in Google Searches to Find Guest Blogging Opportunities

January 12th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

  Image From Flickr by francescopozzi The purpose of this post is to briefly identify how to find guest blogging opportunities using quotation marks in your Google search. Just a quick introduction to guest blogging and links for the beginner Guest blogging is a great way to promote your website and improve its rankings in Google. [...]

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Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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The Keys of Effective SEO Copywriting

January 11th, 2013 - Posted by Jonathon Monk

Effective SEO copywriting or Search Engine Optimisation copywriting to use its full name involves writing useable and engaging content. This has the dual purpose of providing the reader with accurate and useful information about a particular subject whilst also assisting to help the page achieve a higher search engine ranking. The chances are that your [...]

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Local business owner, love how Google is so great for making local business money, property investor, family man with a wonderful wife and two amazing children; passionate about all things bikes and cycling, plus loud music (when I rarely get the chance) and curry!

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