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CasioPasio

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227 posts

111 months

Saturday 23rd March 2019
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So our company name is three words [one][two][three]

but everyone either searches for us with [one] {space} [two][three] or [two][three]

What I've been doing is trying to figure out how to convince google to still bring us up even the users leaves a space between our first and second and third letter.

We paid a very expensive SEO consultant to help us but all he did was waste time and money.

Any guidance like meta tags etc to try and see if we can get any basic result before we put some more money on this?

Thanks in advanced

theaxe

3,571 posts

253 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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My only thought is to buy some google Ads. From there it seems to be fairly easy to get someone from Google on the phone and they may be able to advise you.

My brother uses google ads for his small business and they seem to be surprisingly helpful.

ging84

9,548 posts

177 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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You can't get useful advice without going into specifics, someone could help you get everything right for local business search, which would be great for a restaurant but not so useful if you are selling specialised engineering equipment where your customers are thinly spread across the country.

POORCARDEALER

8,670 posts

272 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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the "experts" at Google themselves are useless in my experience

ging84

9,548 posts

177 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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POORCARDEALER said:
the "experts" at Google themselves are useless in my experience
What experts?

Google doesn't provide SEO services or anything close to it, anyone claiming to be affiliated with google is probably a fraud.


Bikerjon

2,211 posts

192 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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This sounds a bit more fundamental than a typical SEO problem, if I've read this correctly your site isn't found at all if someone directly searches for your business name? What software is your website built with?

POORCARDEALER

8,670 posts

272 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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ging84 said:
POORCARDEALER said:
the "experts" at Google themselves are useless in my experience
What experts?

Google doesn't provide SEO services or anything close to it, anyone claiming to be affiliated with google is probably a fraud.
The bunch at google in Ireland who ive had dealings with

RSVR101

829 posts

193 months

Sunday 24th March 2019
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How significant is searching for your business name, it’s the search terms that new customers use for the service/product you supply that are most important and appearing ahead of potential cmmpetion when said search terms are used.

If the issue is your business name is made of fairly generic word which make it hard to find it might be worth while and much cheaper than spending a fortune with google in the long-run to think of a new co. Name rebranding or running a sister company focussed on web based business. I guess this depends on how much you see your future business relying upon the web though?

CasioPasio

Original Poster:

227 posts

111 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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RSVR101 said:
How significant is searching for your business name, it’s the search terms that new customers use for the service/product you supply that are most important and appearing ahead of potential cmmpetion when said search terms are used.

If the issue is your business name is made of fairly generic word which make it hard to find it might be worth while and much cheaper than spending a fortune with google in the long-run to think of a new co. Name rebranding or running a sister company focussed on web based business. I guess this depends on how much you see your future business relying upon the web though?
it will be heavily based on the web. It's a cloud based application.

We have seen SEO improve with our bigger clients adding us to their website which should 'build trust' with Google.

But re-branding would be a mistake. We are known in our area of work as "[second] [third]" which was what made us in the early days.

I contacted the person who owns a similar domain and they didn't get back and they're based in Korea. I don't even know if they will sell.

Google Ads is a good alternative and we discussed it and might give it a go.

ging84

9,548 posts

177 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Confused, people search for you with the last 2 words with no space, except your existing customers know you as those 2 words with a space, but your actual company name has no spaces?

jonamv8

3,302 posts

197 months

Tuesday 26th March 2019
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Need more info

Needs to be more clear

Can you not post actual details? If not a better example than one two three

Plenty of people on here can prob advise, we SEO consult for example so I can probably throw our 2P in