The UK’s Top SEO Companies
As this is a ‘UK’ SEM site, I thought I had better start to look at the UK SEM scene in a little more depth. So here is the first of many posts that will look at the companies in the UK that provide search engine marketing services.
The SEM industry is not unique in that what the companies are trying to provide for other people, is what you need to do for themselves too. The unique part is the intrinsically linked league table that come with the most popular search terms. Now, I am not saying that this should form the basis of the way you choose your SEM partner, but it does give you something to consider that you won’t have in many other choices you make.
So, for fun, I thought I would look at the term ‘SEO’ (although typed in lowercase) on Google (pages from the web and not in personal search). Everyone gets slightly different results, so these may not completely be what you get when you do the search, but they will be pretty close. Here are the results (and some other arbitrary pieces of information)… drum roll…
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Position
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URL
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Company
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SEO company?
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Incoming Links (page)
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Incoming Links (site)
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First Data on Site
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1
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
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Wikipedia
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No
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25,771
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74,217,061
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Nov-02
|
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2
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEO
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Wikipedia
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No
|
2860
|
74,217,061
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Nov-02
|
|
3
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www.justsearching.co.uk
|
Just Search
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Yes
|
53,088
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56,173
|
Oct-04
|
|
4
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www.seoconsult.co.uk
|
SEO Consult
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Yes
|
1752
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1,901
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After July 2007
|
|
5
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www.swamiseo.co.uk
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SwamiSEO
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Yes
|
2,404
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2,230
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After Dec 2007
|
|
6
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www.weblinx.biz/seo_training.htm
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Weblinx
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Yes
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10,082
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417,504
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Nov-04
|
|
7
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www.dolphinpromotions.co.uk
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Dolphin Promotions
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Yes
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33,076
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46,774
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Aug-02
|
|
8
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www.seoco.co.uk
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The SEO Company
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Yes
|
13,164
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17,856
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Aug-06
|
|
9
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www.searchengineoptimising.com
|
Search Engine Optimising
|
Yes
|
117,967
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136,337
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May-02
|
|
10
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www.seo-london.com
|
SEO London
|
No
|
93
|
108
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Nov-03
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Source wise the information came from Google search results, Yahoo Explorer (not completely accurate, but a fantastic information source), The Wayback Machine and Nominet.
The reason I picked incoming links and the age of the data on the domain is that I am pretty sure these are the main factors that Google looks for to determine trust. The other main ones are the quality of links you have (the biggest factor) and whether you have been bad in the past (and present).
Some really interesting result here and not just in the companies that are showing highly.
I will delve into this in more detail next week.
