Having an attractive, well designed website is, of course, essential to any business in today’s highly competitive marketplace. But have you ever considered how your business might go on to succeed in maximising online customer traffic, achieving the new and repeat business you truly deserve?

Here at Tidy Design,  we believe that your company website should be fully utilised to gain maximum benefit for your business on an on-going basis. We offer a highly effective aid to generating increased  business to your company website, helping your business to grow from strength to strength – even in today’s tough economic climate.

SEO content writing is a highly effective, proven aid to steering customer traffic directly towards your business’ website.

So what is SEO content writing exactly and how does it work?

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is the active, on-going process of improving different aspects of a website in order to optimise it and direct valuable traffic to your website

By carefully establishing the purpose and nature of your business website, an experienced content writer can compile relevant and competitive articles that will direct valuable custom directly to your company website via the search results of Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Hiring a reputed and established website content writing service is of course vital to any successful SEO campaign. Here at Tidy Design, we are proud to offer all our SEO work in house and have chosen the services of published author, Kerry McPhail for all our content writing. Kerry is based locally and published her first book in July 2011, which is available via Waterstones, WH Smiths and Amazon.  Kerry’s extensive creative writing experience feeds naturally into SEO content writing and she has considerable experience of direct and online marketing, gained through promoting her book. She has a keen eye for creating unique brand awareness and identifying clearly and succinctly the results her clients are each seeking to achieve. Working efficiently to exact client specifications, she thoroughly enjoys compiling SEO articles and blog posts that are already achieving increased customer traffic for the clients she has so far engaged with.

Search Engine Optimisation focuses on keywords (the phrases that people typically type into Google, Yahoo or Bing) in order to attract unique visitors to your business website. This results in increased business for you!

By looking carefully at both the internal and external aspects of your website, we at Tidy Design can ensure that your site is able to compete and see a return on your investment. We seek to offer visitors to your website high quality content.

We would be delighted to discuss our SEO service with you, so why not give us a call today or post your content writing questions below. Enjoy this post? Check out Content writers in Portsmouth, Hampshire

If you have ever researched SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) or looked at ways to improve / market your website online then you may have come across the expression “Content Is King”.

Adding unique and informative content to a website is one of many ways you can influence your organic search results, I mean if you can produce an informative article, offering the reader real value, encouraging them to link to it, tell friends how great it is etc then that is a job very well done!

Remember… quality content can go far in todays SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages), and by regularly adding this quality content, be it news, articles, reviews or tutorials, you are seriously increasing your chance of getting traffic / business via the web.

Running my own business (plus having multiple ventures on the go) I fully understand that time is often not on your side, especially in todays economic climate when business owners are working much harder than ever before! With this in mind, Tidy Design has teamed up with a local author based in Southsea, Portsmouth. With a book already published and on the shelves in Waterstones, we aim to utilize this exceptional talent and creative flair, working with her to deliver clients quality website content.

If you are looking for a content writer based in the UK then why not get in touch with Tidy Design today! We would be delighted to look over your site, discuss your needs, put forward suggestions to help expend and develop your website.

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Following on from last week when we asked ‘what is guest blogging‘, I thought today we would ask the question, ‘why is it important to comment on blogs?’

Ok, most of us will know about backlinks and how they can influence your organic search results with Google, Yahoo and Bing… Businesses will likely employ an SEO company or freelance SEO dude to build quality links over time, or you may even be looking to build these yourself? Whatever SEO route you go down, the power / influence of well established blogs should not be underestimated or ignored when undertaking a SEO campaign

Above is a comment I posted earlier this month on SEOmoz, a blog I love to read and extract new innovative ideas from. The post in question was all about link baiting and offered a few tips on how to build quality content, a great read if online marketing / SEO is your thing!

You will see I included a link to some of our own Tidy Design link bait, free twitter icons.

This blog comment referred an awesome 104 visitors to our free twitter icons in just 24 hours!

So you see, commenting on various blogs in your sector will contribute to the overall traffic a website receives… Not only do you build relationships with fellow bloggers, you also increase the number of quality (relevant) backlinks to your site, these helping boost your organic search results, AKA a spot of SEO.

Sadly, none of us can afford to stand still in business… Projecting positive thoughts to increase website traffic, boost sales or achieve top spot on Google simply wont work! SEO takes time and requires a lot of hard work and dedication… Posting comments on blogs is one of many ways you can make a difference today!

If you have any awesome SEO success stories, opinions on guest blogging, backlink building etc then please post them below… Likewise, if you are new to the World of SEO and have any questions or thoughts then please fire away, we would love to hear your ideas, experiences, questions and opinions below.

Thanks for stopping by and please visit again soon!

A BIG good morning to our awesome Tidy Design blog readers! In todays blog post I’m asking the question; what exactly is guest blogging?

Well… guest blogging in a nutshell is the exchange of content from one person to another. Normally, site X (or the personal marketing site X) will search the web for relevant and well-established blogs in their sector; they then contact the blog owner asking if he/she can submit an article in return for a link back to site X.

Guest blogging is very easy to do and it is great for SEO! Just remember each blog will have its own set of rules / guidelines, so keep these in mind when writing your article. I say this because writing decent content is labour intensive, you don’t want your blog post full of typos or rejected because it doesn’t tick all the correct boxes!

When it comes to SEO and your Google rankings you will need to make sure all content you submit (or publish on your own blog) is unique. If the same article is submitted to 50+ blogs then the blog owners and Google will find out! The consequence, well… probably your article deleted from all blogs and backlinks lost! Also, the relationship between site X and the blog owners / Google not great!

Done correctly, guest blogging is awesome for all parties involved… Blog owners receive free unique content for their site and guest bloggers win because they get more links to their website!

I hope this has helped explain the principle of guest blogging, if you have any comments or questions then please do post them below.

Have a great day!

Morning all, it has been another early start for Tidy Design, lots on the agenda and plenty to keep us busy! Hard to believe this is our 100th blog post, being published just a couple of weeks after our blog celebrated its 1st birthday! How time flies when you run a business, work hard and enjoy what you do!

I am not going to lie to you and say blogging is easy, or that we do it because we have lots of free time on our hands to write SEO and web related articles… Yup, like most businesses out there, the main reason Tidy Design added its blog was to boost organic search results AKA a spot of SEO!

Prior to setting up and managing our own blog we had preached to various SEO clients about the benefits of blogging. Having a blog is one thing, but being disciplined enough to add unique and quality content on a regular basis to expand on your SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) is in fact the hard part.

However, if a company like ours can average two blog posts a week, then I am confident every business (regardless of size) could blog at least twice a month and see the benefits!

Another thing to consider about blogging is its impact on your site, I mean if your blog is up to date then wont this show potential customers that your business is alive and kicking? SEO is not only about having more visitors this month than last month; it is also about converting traffic into enquiries… If you last blogged or tweeted about 15 months ago, wont this ring alarm bells?

So to conclude, did a blog boost our SERPs and was it worth all those late nights and early mornings behind a desk typing away? The short answer, Yes! I think if you are serious about SEO and growing your business online then it is simple, you need to ‘find time’ for SEO or delegate.

Based on our own experience, blogging has without a doubt helped increase web design and SEO enquiries, in fact yesterday a lady phoned and spoke to Rosie about a website, this after reading an article on our blog! How awesome it that!

Lets all raise our mugs of coffee and make a toast to the mighty business blog! Here is to the next 100 blog posts, I hope you continue to read them and re-visit our site again soon…

Yesterday Tidy Design was delighted to launch a new site we designed for a published author based in Southsea, Portsmouth. The spec was quite simple, to create a site that represented the vision, creativity and works of Kerry McPhail, allowing her to grow / develop the site using blogging software WordPress… Earlier today we received the following feedback from her:

It was a great pleasure both working with and getting to know Kerry over recent weeks. Her tweets have made me smile on numerous occasions so if like us you use twitter I suggest you follow @KerryMcPhail

This was the first website we have designed for a writer / author, hope you like it!

This morning I decided to pick up my sketchpad and doddle some FREE hand drawn social icons for you, our awesome Tidy Design blog readers to download:

Please feel free to download and use these hand drawn Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Google Mail, Flickr, YouTube, Linkedin, RSS, Blogger and Mail icons for your website or graphic design projects.

You can use these free hand drawn social icons for both commercial and non-commercial projects… And yup, please feel free to modify the icons anyway you like. All we ask from you in return is not to re-sell or distribute these icons via a third party website… To help us, please spread the word by linking to this page.

I think we are all guilty of neglecting our own blog or website at some time or another. I know I am. I go through a phase of writing blog posts regularly and then I either lose inspiration, get side tracked with other things, or simply do not have the time.

Well here are ten tips to help you write your next blog post:

For detailed information on each of these tips, please click here

Rosanna Ward