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Keyword traffic estimator 29th November 2010 2:00 PM
It makes sense to me for the following reasons:

It's not a competitive keyword and services such as hairdressers are typically searched online for less than for example, an accountant.

Domestic services, from my research over the last couple of years when doing keyword research, generally has less search volume than a B2B service.

People are also misguided by the 'search results' displayed at the top of Google. That's broad search results thus the phrase you quote is showing 133,000 search results.

....meaning anthing that includes the 3 words of 'milton' 'keynes' 'hairdressers' in any order and within any same or longer phrase. Thus most of those results are likely to be completely unrelated to your business. It is not 133,000 people searching on the exact phrae of 'hairdressers milton keynes'. My research shows me there are an average 2 a day searching on that exact phrase so exlcuding how many times oyu are typing it in each month, that's how popular it is. Not very, as you can see.

Furthermore, are your stats showing 2-30 day for your total unique visitors or is that 20-30 per month for that exact keyword alone, excluding all other keywords searched on that from your monthly visitor total?

Lastly, you are showing as No. 1 in Google maps local listing and not in the natural search engine results. Not that it matters, as you are No. 1 top of the page, so mission accomplished none the less.

I'd say you'd generate more traffic to your site via a Facebook page than Google if you work it locally, and regularly.
Anyone been following the apprentice? 25th November 2010 3:26 PM
ha ha did you watch it last night then? I watched it when I got back in because if I leave it until next day I see who gets fired on the news before I watch it so I have to watch it before I go to bed otherwise it spoils the end if I know who's been fired already. Yes I agree he was a bit disappointing but I didnt think he was bad enough to get sacked. Should have been one of the other 2 IMO.
Call Center Outsourcing 24th November 2010 1:30 PM
It's not financially feasible to do that. Their staff resourcing is based on the contracts they have sure, but you cant hire staff according to a sales campaign, or a surge in calls for any other reason.

In the 'old days' before call queuing in call centres, you rang BT for example, got the engaged tone, then tried again, and again, and again. Till you got through!
Adwords Vouchers 23rd November 2010 6:29 PM
It usually gives you
Adwords Vouchers 23rd November 2010 5:03 PM
Never seen a voucher you can add to a current adwords account. Will go and see if any of ours needs updating.
Call Center Outsourcing 23rd November 2010 9:48 AM
Ta Da!
The Forum SEO Challenge... 22nd November 2010 2:36 PM
You actually said in your first post:

I have just found this site for the first time by entering 'uk business forums' into google and it was number 10 for me! But interestingly I googled 'seo business forums' and you are in position 2!

Hence my response...

I guess we can only go by what you write as being correct the first time.

None the less, the stats show nobody searches on it, nobody as in, its not got at least 1 search a day thus it's not an achievement of any kind. It's an achievement if it's got a lot of folk searching on the phrase, and who then convert.
I notice 'rebecca' hsn't been back for a while. Mind you, no point now, is there?
The Forum SEO Challenge... 22nd November 2010 1:37 PM
The downside to being No. 2 for that is that nobody is actually searching on the keyword 'seo business forums' so it will be there by default only i'm afraid.

Not forgetting what seo is all about,which is (and im sure steve will relay the stats back soon) what the site got as a result of the seo activity; how much more traffic has it generated for the site and ultimately how many new sign-ups to the forum, over and above what he normally averages. Pointless being on page 1 if as a result you aren't getting anything back from it. Whatever you pay for needs to pay itself back to cover the return on investment and over that, generate further profit or value somewhere down the line.
Do you understand this page? 20th November 2010 7:31 PM
I think they were wondering if the client was expecting any sales (conversion) as a result of landing on that page.