Guides
Guides for Southampton businesses: what the map and the assistants reward
Each guide takes one decision a Southampton business faces and works through it with the city's own examples: the terminals, the campus, the Hamble, Shirley and Eastleigh. No theory that does not end in something you can do this week.
How Southampton businesses get found online: a day of searches
Follow one day of Southampton searches, from the cruise terminal at seven to the takeaway at nine.
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The Google Business Profile for a Southampton business, field by field
A ten-minute check, then every field of the profile with the Southampton setting and the mistake we see most: category, services, hours, area.
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Why your Southampton website gets no enquiries: the three patterns
Silent Southampton websites fall into three patterns: the brochure, the builder template and the old site nobody can log into.
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Checkatrade or your own website: the Southampton answer, trade by trade
Two questions decide whether a Southampton trade should pay a lead platform, build its own presence, or both: where your customers start.
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How much should a Southampton business spend on SEO? Start from the enquiry
Work backwards from what one enquiry is worth to your business, then the three answers for a trade, a practice and a marine firm.
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Getting Google reviews in Southampton: the ask for every kind of business
The review a student writes is not the review a boat owner writes. The moment to ask, the words, and what to hope they mention.
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See what is stopping your business ranking in Southampton
Send us your website and your trade. You get a plain-English audit of where you stand against the three Southampton businesses above you, and a fixed price. No meeting, no long contract.