[*Hector*]

The issue here is one of developing interest, rather than using a website to try and sell, two completely different things, and if you have done that right the prospective customer is suffciently interested in your service to call you for the one thing you didn't tell them on your website, the price.
Even price shoppers, or those who have had their fingers burnt in the past by cc'ers can be won over during a phone call as long as they are convinced that what you are offering represents value for money. Price is only an issue at the beginning of the process because all people are actually buying is the 'promise' of a clean carpet, unlike a shiny new car that they can test drive first and know exactly what they are getting for their money, so it is quality of the end of the day that they are interested in and you have to make them believe that is what they are going to get and if so, you'll get the sale.

Simon

Or you can do as Simon does..... and send 6 guys round to beat the customer into giving you the order 

[Steve9]

I thought I'd reignite this topic rather than start a new one.

10 months since this started how are you finding it's going Mike? With a 'guide' rather than actual pricing or no pricing.

[Paul Moss]

It's gone poop e as Mike has packed in and sold his business to Shaun Ashmore for £2 k

[benny d]

And he's given his van to Longleat Zoo . Ben Fogel drives it all the time. 

[Mike Halliday]

its all become irrelevant with the Google changes over the last year, my website has dropped off the first page and now only acts as an information portal for people receiving my other marketing material

I don.t get any enquiries from people searching Google. so the prices page  has had no effect

[Barry Livingstone]

mike you need to change your website then! Google works even up in Scotland

[Mike Halliday]

Could some one in the know tell me why this website is number one on google

http://cleanserv-york-beverley.co.uk

And I'm no 4 on page 3?

http://www.henryhalliday.co.uk

They say content is king, my website is fully loaded but is beaten by directories and other basic websites. For me The first page of google is just directories and irrelevant crappy websites that do not answer the persons search.

Even my google places listing  doesn't show  as it just shows this message  'we currently do not support the location' and that is fully completed with videos and photos and is correctly filled in

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Mines the same dropped loads fortunately I'm on maps I was top genetically for years.

Shaun

[TheWindowManChris]

Could some one in the know tell me why this website is number one on google

http://cleanserv-york-beverley.co.uk

And I'm no 4 on page 3?

http://www.henryhalliday.co.uk

They say content is king, my website is fully loaded but is beaten by directories and other basic websites. For me The first page of google is just directories and irrelevant crappy websites that do not answer the persons search.

Even my google places listing  doesn't show  as it just shows this message  'we currently do not support the location' and that is fully completed with videos and photos and is correctly filled in

Have you got enough links to other websites? Try make meta-tags easy and etc.   You can normally get a SEO to improve your listings for £50 on PeoplePerHour.

[Richard Cole]

Could some one in the know tell me why this website is number one on google

http://cleanserv-york-beverley.co.uk

And I'm no 4 on page 3?

http://www.henryhalliday.co.uk

They say content is king, my website is fully loaded but is beaten by directories and other basic websites. For me The first page of google is just directories and irrelevant crappy websites that do not answer the persons search.

Even my google places listing  doesn't show  as it just shows this message  'we currently do not support the location' and that is fully completed with videos and photos and is correctly filled in

I suspect Mike that you don't show in Google Places because you have fallen foul of Google's policy of showing your address as Google no longer likes service based business showing their home addresses. I too fell foul of this and even when i removed it and lodged a request with Google it has taken me months to get back to page one of Google and even then only for Carpet Cleaners, i'm on page 2 for Carpet Cleaning my local town.

I would also have a look at Adword's Mike as done, correctly it does not have to cost a lot, i pay roughly £40 a month and it generates a steady stream of work for me.

[garry22]

Mike, I'm getting a 403 error code from your site. It's not live for some reason.

[Robert Watson]

Hi Richard, I`m totally confused with place`s. I`m sure I`m missing something, but when I log on to edit, the address is mandatory?? I took a hit as well and I could do with getting back in there.
As regarding natural listings, Google isn't returning the most relevant results, what I thought it was all supposed to be about, You get Gumtree, Groupon or any old crap. Its all over the place and if anyone can work it out, their a better man than me.  

[neil 47]

No facebook page Mike 

[garry22]

Bear in mind Penguin 2.1 was only a couple of weeks ago and went after linking (again), your links look strange.

There was a huge drop in numbers in August and now there seems to be just loads and loads of directories linking to your site. Have you added those or has someone been a bit naughty?

[davep]

Is it a dp print site? One by me was and has dropped 

[JandS]

So why would a service based business be punished for showing their address.
Just shows that nobody has a clue about Google really, not even so called SEO people because they haven't a clue really.
They keep ringing me and telling me they will get me to number one on Google. Fine I say,  then you won't mind giving me a month free trial and if your that good then not only will I book and pay you for a full year I'll pay you for the free trial month.
Not one as taken up the offer which begs the question...is there such a thing as SEO.
Someone about 3 miles from me comes up fairly high up on Google and they don't even have a website, much for SEO.

[Mike Halliday]

Bear in mind Penguin 2.1 was only a couple of weeks ago and went after linking (again), your links look strange.

There was a huge drop in numbers in August and now there seems to be just loads and loads of directories linking to your site. Have you added those or has someone been a bit naughty?

Garry are you referring to my website with your comment about directories linking to my site?  How can I see what is linking to my site?

Dave it is a dp site

[garry22]

Mike

www.ahrefs.com will give you a basic check (you only get the full stuff with a paid membership - which I think Vernon has).

SEO spyglass (free) shows about 6,000 directory backlinks (which does not sound right and is probably giving duplicates).

It looks like this latest Penguin update has clobbered all sorts of people across the board. Normally when this happens, they go in hard and then "turn down the effects" after a few days. It is normally better to do nothing for a while. Your site may just be giving a false positive.

[Mike Gwilliam]

It could be the problem Mike, that you have a cagillioin inbound links to your site which are duplicate content with the same anchor text.

I'm not saying this is the problem, but is more than likely you have been hit with an anchor text penalty from your incomming links.

These are just a handfull of those links:

http://wwwlinks.co.uk/henryhalliday.co.uk-7673.html
http://promote-your-sites.com/henryhalliday.co.uk-7673.html
http://www.directorychannel.org/henryhalliday.co.uk-7673.html
http://directoryinclusion.info/henryhalliday.co.uk-7673.html
http://dirfusion.co.uk/henryhalliday.co.uk-7737.html
http://linkexpert.co.uk/henryhalliday.co.uk-7464.html
http://dirbuzz.co.uk/henryhalliday.co.uk-8577.html

Sourced from: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/

Also the information from open site explorer may not be up to date, so to get a better idea is to log into your Google webmaster tools and download the (links to your site) file.

[neil 47]

Mike its because google doesn't trust you due to your high link count probably all put on at the same time so dosent show up as natural links