If you’ve signed up your business on Made From New Zealand already, this message is for you. If you haven’t: go do it now, and come straight on back….
The Made From New Zealand community is growing by more than 100 companies a week, and we’re really making an impact on Google. Today we want to tell you about that, and let you know how we can help you get even more profile and traffic.
Across all of the business profiles on the Made From New Zealand community, the average Google ranking is 9.5 (as at Feb 12), which means, on average, your profile page is appearing on the first page of Google. In many cases, your Made From New Zealand profile ranks number one: so when anyone in the world searches for your business name, your profile page is the first result that comes up. We love it when that happens. And it’s happening more and more…
Try it yourself: Google Epic Brewing Company. See? Number 6 on the page. Or Planhq. That’s number 4. How about Voom Studio. It’s number 1! See how it works?
The team here are 100% focused on getting the average ranking across all member profiles as high up that Google page as possible. Our mission is to dramatically increase New Zealand’s profile online, and we’re doing it one business at a time.
So how are we going to do it? Well, it’s all about you. Your stories, your product launches. Your successes. Your export plans. Whatever your business is up to, we want to know about it so we can add the story to your profile page, your industry page, and the home page. Think of us as your personal free PR and promotions machine: send us a hundred words or so, attach a pic if you have a good one (if not no problem, we’ll use your profile pic) and we’ll post your story on the site.
The more stories you tell, the more links we can create between your content and your profile. And that means more Google love for you and everyone else in the community. Pretty soon, New Zealand’s business community will be the best-promoted in the world: as individual business profiles get promoted, entire industry categories follow: so when someone in Brazil searches for furniture, New Zealand will come up first; when someone in Australia is searching for web designers, New Zealand will come up first, when someone in the UK is searching for baby clothes, New Zealand will… you get the picture.
As you send us more news, your profile’s ranking will increase, you’ll get more traffic, and then it’s up to you to turn that into a sale. You can check out exactly how much traffic you’re getting every day via your Made From New Zealand dashboard: but I’ll tell you more abut that in my next note.
In the meantime, send us your news, okay? That’s the story.
Tags: content, google, Made from New Zealand, search, seo
Hey Steve, You’ll like reading my post (future dated for 24 March) where recommend my business subscribers to sign up to Made From New Zealand and the interesting way I found out about you. My husband was checking my Google ranking from the US, not for my business name but for my keyword search phrases - ‘business website advice’. My blog was number 1 and 2. I was curious as to who was number 3 - you guys, Made From New Zealand. I went digging and was impressed by what I saw. Thus my recommendation to business owners who subscribe to my blog.
BTW…Googling All the Web pages from NZ gives skewed results since Google thinks you’re looking for a NZ company. The true test is to have a friend in the US google not just your name (they won’t know that) but your keyword search phrase. That is true SEO. You guys passed my test. Congratulations. I knew I had to quick register because my company does “website advice’ with a dedicated blog.
Well done.
Katherine Kozel at 6:07 pm, Mar 3rd 2009
Great info, real helpful. Be keen to run out on the field with this one. Cheers ~
Potaua at 9:08 pm, Mar 4th 2009
Hi Steve
Just want to say how happy we are to be on made from new zealand and we vouch for your hard work in promoting kiwi companies online.
For anyone even thinking about it, don’t hesitate, get on made from new zealand and provide them with all of your cool stories.
Since we have joined (and especially since using the blog widget) our traffic has increased. So listen to Steve and use this great networking/pr engine to your advantage.
Big ups MFNZ crew and all the companies making a noise.
Elliot and endemicworld.com crew.
elliot at 8:14 am, Mar 20th 2009