Lincolnshire Search Engine Optimisation
Strategies to get more people to your website
90.63% of web pages get NO traffic from Google!*
* According to a study by AHrefs
90.63% of web pages get NO traffic from Google!

What is SEO? How does it work?
Looking for an SEO expert in Lincolnshire?
Reach more people in Lincolnshire with effective SEO strategies to get more people onto your website.
Targa Web Solutions is based near Spalding in south Lincolnshire, and specialises in web design, search engine optimisation and web analytics.
What is Search Engine Optimisation?
Search Engine Optimisation (or SEO) is the process of setting out a website and each of its pages to be as effective as possible in search engine results.
Search engines aim to return a list of websites which are the closest matches for the search terms entered, and successful SEO on individual web pages will allow each of those pages to stand a better chance of being listed amongst the top search results.
Is SEO important?
SEO is very important, but just how important will depend on what you want from your website and the level of competition you have in your area.
Even if you have the most incredible website but no one ever gets to see it, then what is the point of that website? Worse still, if your business depends on it, then you’ve got a big problem!
In a typical Lincolnshire town, there will be some businesses which will have very little competition with other similar businesses in Cambridgeshire for a good position in search engine results.
Jaguar dealer in Lincolnshire
would be a good example, and I can predict with a fair degree of certainty that Marshall Jaguar will be near the top of the search results. But search for car dealer in Lincolnshire
and the list of results will look very different. Marshall Jaguar will be in there somewhere amongst other main dealers and used car dealers.
On the other hand there could be a lot of competition for electricians and plumbers in the area. So success in a typical search for electricians in Lincolnshire
or plumbers in Lincolnshire
will need a lot more effort, analysis, and frequent monitoring and tweaking than a search for a main car dealer in Lincolnshire would.
But let's be clear... SEO success certainly won't happen overnight. It WILL take some time, because Any new business offering services within a geographic area such as Lincolnshire will need to earn the right to be amongst the existing well established websites for those same search criteria.
What does SEO involve?
Ideally your website should be built from the ground up with usability and SEO in mind. Some of the specifics are explained further down this page, but let’s just say at this point that SEO should have been a key consideration right from the start of the development of your website, and not just an add-on at the end.
But what if it wasn’t designed to be effective? Is it too late?
Not at all. Things can be done to improve your effectiveness with search engines, but how much can be done would need to be assessed on a case by case basis, as some things such as content changes could be easier and cheaper to implement than changes to the structure of a page.
Some examples of what should be reviewed include:
Competitor analysis:
- Which of your competitors are appearing in the top search engine results?
- What are they doing to give them such a high position?
- What can be done with your new or current website to enable you to get amongst the top search results for the services you provide in Lincolnshire?
Checking for website errors:
- Checking for
broken links
(links to pages which may have been removed, or links which have been incorrectly set up and therefore fail to reach a target page) - Checking for
missing images
(an image may have been removed, or the reference to it may be incorrectly set up and therefore fail to reach the target image) - Fixing any
website errors
that have been found.
Review for improvements to your website:
Website content review
and enhancements.Keyword research
analysis and improvements.- Checking how the major tags such as
<title>
,<h1>
and<h2>
etc are being used. Page load speed
analysis.Website architecture
analysis.Page structure validation
Internal links
- analysis and review of existing internal links and identifying opportunities for improvement.- Improve
Inbound linking
(also known asbacklinking
) - Improve
outbound linking
- Determine strategy for the use of
landing pages.
Google submissions:
Google validation
and submitting.Google Analytics
tag installation, validation, analysis and monitoring.Google Business Profile
(formerly known asGoogle My Business
) listing to help your business to stand out when people are searching in Lincolnshire.
Bing submissions:
- Submission to the
Bing search engine
- Submission to
Bing Places
which will help potential customers find your website when searching on Bing for businesses like yours in Lincolnshire.
Our free website audit would be a good place to start the initial investigation.
What impact does SEO have on design?
In many ways styling shouldn't be affected, but what the content on your pages say and how they link and reference to other content and pages on your site is very important.
But you shouldn't overdo it.
In the early days of the web, success with search engines was often achieved by cramming as many keywords and key phrases on a page as possible, sometimes to a point where it would look excessive and repetitive.
For example it might have looked something like:
Targa Web Solutions produces professional websites for businesses in Lincolnshire. Our 27 years website design experience speaks for itself, and we are unbeaten in Lincolnshire for building quality websites. You will find that our website design services are amongst the cheapest and best value in Lincolnshire.
That is NOT how I want to portray Targa, but you get the idea? It was very much a case of how many times the same thing can be said in as many ways as possible, and hope that you had managed to cram in more than your competitors so that you appeared higher in search results.
It is also known as keyword stuffing and some websites still operate on that basis.
Thankfully things are continuing to change
For example Google places increasing importance on meaningful and relevant content, and discourages any form of keyword stuffing in the way described above.
What does relevant content mean?
Let's say that you run a conservatory installation company in Lincolnshire, and you also cover other areas besides Lincolnshire. Your website should convey that message. It should be clear to potential customers what services you offer, and where you operate. You should therefore aim to be successful in search results for terms such as:
kitchen fitter in Lincolnshire
professional kitchen installer in Lincolnshire
bespoke kitchen specialist in Lincolnshire
That might sound obvious, but also bear in mind that dedicated pages could be worth having for any additional services you offer, combined with the names of any relevant towns and villages in Lincolnshire which you also provide services in.
That approach will certainly be beneficial to your SEO efforts and reach more potential customers.
What does meaningful content mean?
Does your website portray your company as being experts in your field, and from all of the other options of similar companies in Lincolnshire, will your potential customers get the sense that your company is the one which is most suited to your needs?
Google tries to determine just that, by evaluating the nature and content of a website against criteria which assesses the credibility of a website and its owners. Google calls this process E-A-T
which is derived from Google's Search Quality Rating Guidelines.
E-A-T
- Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness
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Web design too...
As well as providing SEO services, Targa also offer web design services in Lincolnshire, and would be happy to hear from you.