At Montpellier Interactive, we get a lot of clients who just need us to SEO their sites. Often however, the reason their site isn’t listed on Google is because it’s simply not built in an SEO-friendly way. All the sites which use our CMS are made from the ground-up to be SEO friendly, and as CMS’s go, out of the box, you’ll struggle to find one that’s got quite as many SEO features as ours – in fact from the perspective of Search Engine Optimisation, we reckon it’s a lot better than wordpress! Yep, you heard right.

Don’t get us wrong, once you’ve spent forever and a day downloading, uploading, installing and configuring every plugin under the sun, it’ll do most of the stuff our CMS can do, but having it all there right infront of you from the word GO saves a lot of time and frustration!

So anyway, back to the SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation; we were about to get bragging about some recent results we’ve achieved, and I think you’ll agree with our happy clients, when we say that these are pretty killer results!

So kicking off with relatively new web design client; Steck Depositors; these guys were over the moon, not only with their new website design, but also the virtually instant results it got, rocketing straight to the coveted number one spot within a week or two:

Next up we have a new start-up; Quicklook books who provide cheap, information eBooks to people with Kindle’s, iPods, iPads, in fact just about any electronic device which can display a .PDF file. We’ve almost hit the top spot for them, so watch this space!

Now we look at a more mature client who now dominates their marketplace for their main keywords. Cotswold Hot Tubs currently hold down the number one spot for their two main product offerings, being Swim Spas and Cheap Hot Tubs – check it out:

Second-to-last but certainly not least, we have The Point Blue Network – this local process server covers multiple areas which they now appear in the top ten search results for, but as a by-product of our work, we’ve also managed to gain them the coveted number one spot for their main USP – Urgent Process Serving.

Finally, Brit Commercial Mortgages – with good positions for Commercial Mortgage Cardiff, as well topping the charts for Commercial Mortgage Bristol, we’ve also bagged him the enviable top spot for the niche below – another happy customer; now recieving between five and ten enquiries a week from their website.

So there you have it, a by no means exhaustive list of recent SEO achievements.

Need a website? Need some SEO advice? Need your site updating cheaply?

Give Ed a call on 01242 654 005 for a chat about how we can help.

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We’ve just completed the design for a local photographer in cheltenham; Frozen Visions. The design proposed by the client for the home page  features a large flash gallery to showcase the latest photos, which are easily uploaded and edited within the included content management system. The ease and speed of use that this provides will make maintaining the website design a quick, simple process.

The design for the inner pages of the website, was also to the client specification, and encorporates custom controls so that the image boxes, and the pages they link to, can be controlled using the content management system, providing full user control over the website design and appearance.

Choosing a platform for your web design that allows full design control is essential if you have an artistic website that needs to be regularly, quickly and easily updated. Strong calls to action in the footer of the site help to funnel website traffic towards the end goal of arranging a consultation – defining a goal is something that many website designs fail to do.

If you are considering designing a new website, you need to first think “what do I want my website to do” the answer for most businesses is: generate enquiries, make sales, make the phone ring, etc.

By placing calls to actions across the site in key locations, you can help to ensure that visitors on your site are encouraged to reach the end goal of making contact, subscribing to a newsletter, picking up the phone, or placing an order.

This is the first thing we discuss with our clients when they come to us, as it is only by understanding their core requirements, that we help them produce a website design that really works for them, and helps their business.

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USS of Cheltenham provide all kinds of lighting, PA, and event conference solutions, from dry hire of a light, to a complete AV solution for a huge conference. They wanted a new website to showcase their incredible library of photos taken at their events. We came up with a web design to convert to our CMS, then we created a special module for the CMS that enables USS to add new images to any of their main web pages and have them play in any of the five different slideshows on the website.

The other cool feature on their site was rather than drawing a map for the “contact us” page, you can simply embed a “live” map direct from Google Maps with your location already listed.

Finally we did our bare minimum SEO package for USS, and the site is already ranking well for national keywords for which they wanted to appear.

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The Point Blue Network are process servers and document servers, specialising in urgent tracing, serving and legal services. They came to us to provide them with a web presence. Like many of our customers, Point Blue’s vision was not just to “have a website”, but to have a complete web presence – this means they factored SEO or Search Engine Optimisation into their budget – as a result, yes – they have a website, but it’s also in the top ten results when someone searches for either a Process Server in an area they cover (London, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford and Bristol), or number one when someone searches for an Urgent Process Server.

We provided a web design that was designed from the ground-up to be SEO-friendly, so that it would get picked up for their main keyword, as well as the areas in which they cover.

The addition of dedicated pages which cover each of the areas, provides relevant content to search engines, so that if someone enters Process Server + London, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford or Bristol, they find The Point Blue Network at the top of the pile.

If you need any of the following legal services, why not check them out by clicking the appropriate link:

Process Server London | Process Server Leeds | Process Server Birmingham | Process Server Manchester
Process Server Oxford | Process Server Bristol

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Steck depositors came to us after reading one of our monthly email newsletters. They had a dated website design which had never been optimised for search engines, and had no way of editing the content on it without contacting the guy who’d made it for them originally.

As is often the case in these scenarios, getting a person rather than a company to build your site may save money in the short-term but creates a lot of hassle long-term when you just want to change something simple, and they are on holiday, have changed jobs, or have other more important clients to deal with – if your business relies on its website, then you should have a business manage it for you.

Because of this, we offer a content management system with every site we make – this means that you can make the majority of changes to the content on the website yourself. And because all of our customers are important to us, even big design changes or additions can happen really quickly.

Finally Steck were smart – they factored SEO into their budget for their website. They realised that if nobody can find your website, then having the best website in the world isn’t any use at all. Now they rank within the top five search results on Google for all of their main keywords, and are getting more enquiries than ever before. Here’s what they had to say:

“We’ve been amazed at the quick results that Montpellier have achieved, they expedited all our requirements with ease, and we are very happy with our new website. Our Website has been live for only two weeks, and we are already getting enquiries!”

Steck are one of the UKs leading manufacturers of “Depositors” – specialist machinery used in the manufacture of ready meals, and other pre-packed food. If you search for “Depositors”, “Depositor Manufacturer”, “Pizza Depositors” etc, you will get an idea of how good their search results are – if they aren’t number one on Google, they are definitely in the top five sites. Check out their site at Steck Depositors, or search Google for one of the above terms…

Imagine what could happen to your business if we did the same for you?

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We designed a website platform with a complete back-end system that allows Class People to take enquiries from schools who require supply teachers and select a suitable candidate from their database who matches the requirements.

Candidates are then able to file their timesheets online with Class People, which again is a heavily automated process, saving man hours and improving quality of service.  The site also features our award-winning content management system and has lots of custom features including a login area, and a jobs board where supply teachers can search up-coming positions.

If you represent a school, or are a supply teacher, check out their site here: www.classpeople.co.uk

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Chase Distillery are one of the leading boutique distillers of potato vodka in the UK. Their website was made entirely in flash, which meant it wasn’t SEO friendly, and they couldn’t edit or add to the content without incurring significant costs.

By porting the flash site to our mi|cms platform, Chase can now easily ammend their website as often as they like, without incurring any additional expense. They have a dedicated support line that’s open from 8:30 am to 6:00pm weekdays, and most importantly an SEO friendly website which people can now find without knowing the name of the company.

Chase do make exeptional drinks and their vodka was recently voted “best vodka in the world”; check out their website here and grab yourself a bottle!

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Brit Commercial Mortgages (AKA MSDirect), are commercial mortgages brokers with offices in Bristol and Cardiff. They came to us with a new brand concept and a fresh approach to generating new business enquiries. Our client wanted a clean new web design that was easy to navigate and contained useful information for people looking for a commercial mortgage of any description; be it buy-to-let, asset finance, etc.

We took on the web design project and optimised the site for Commercial Mortgage related copy and tags. Since doing this, the site has been performing very well and the client is regularly recieving numerous enquiries for mortgage applications via the web – something not seen before coming to us.

Our happy clients are now benefitting from a 100% increase in new business enquiries, and all within a very short space of time, saying “…I am absolutly delighted”. We were pretty pleased too – another happy customer, and client testimonial to add to the list.

If you are looking for a Commercial Mortgage in Bristol or Cardiff, why not check out the Brit website here; Commercial Mortgages

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Paul Roach Jaguar, a client of ours, is a Jaguar Restoration Specialist in Suffolk. With clients from as far away as the UAE, Paul Roach and Partners have made a name for themselves as one of the UK’s leading restorers and retailers of used classic Jags.

They came to us looking for a way to edit their website, because it was made in flash, meaning maintenance virtually impossible and that search engines found it hard to see what the site was about.

We took their site and converted it to run on our content management system, so that it could be search engine optimised and the results were immediate.

One of our older clients now, but we thought we’d demonstrate how easy it is to convert your flash site to a CMS content management system. The conversion took us a couple of days, and within a matter of weeks, they were getting enquiries from their website – something that had never happened before.

To take a look at the site (bearing in mind that we didn’t design the website, just converted it to our CMS), check it out here: http://www.paulroachjaguar.co.uk

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