We are very proud to announce that the GrowTraffic team has picked up the prestigious Business of the Year award at the 2018 Rossendale Business Awards.
We were honoured to be able to attend the R Awards as a shortlisted business and it ewas an even greater pleasure – and surprise – to come away as winners. It’s a testament to the commitment and dedication of our hardworking and talented team. Read More
Well, yesterday we all had a little bit of a boost, because we found out that we’ve been shortlisted as finalists in two categories for the 2018 R Awards!
Yep, that’s right, little old us have made it through to the R Awards finals. Last year we were nominated but didn’t make the finals. This year we were nominated and are finalists. Maybe, on that law, next year we’ll be nominated, finalists AND winners, who knows!?!
Or…maybe 2018 is our year. We’ll find out on Wednesday 14th November, when all will be revealed. Read More
Elaine recently joined the GrowTraffic team after stepping in to write some blogs and – to her delight – finding out she really enjoyed it, and that she had a bit of a flair for writing!
Although this didn’t surprise her (she has wanted to write since creating children’s books and poems for her brother at the age of 11) she never thought it would ever become a reality. During a somewhat varied career, which has predominantly been in sales and customer service roles, Elaine’s creative streak has mostly been kept hidden and under wraps…until now.
However, Elaine didn’t leave sales and simply start writing; she never does things the easy way. Instead, Elaine decided to go back to university as a mature student and has just gained a distinction in a Foundation Degree studying Community Leadership.
The course has definitely changed Elaine’s life for the better and having studied modules such as Youth Led Regeneration, Community Leadership, Mentoring and Volunteering in the EU, and having been to Italy to help with the refugee crisis and to the EU Parliament in Brussels, Elaine now feels that writing is definitely her way of making a positive difference to people’s lives.
“It’s an amazing twist of fate that I found Grow Traffic,” said Elaine, “a commercial company whose ethics and ideologies at heart are that of my own; social justice, fairness, honesty and integrity…oh, and a similar long-established ability to work hard and play harder!”
When Elaine is not writing for GrowTraffic, she does have a passion for the great outdoors. You will often find her in the garden with her chickens, rabbits and cats, walking with her dog, Alfie, or off to a festival with her daughter, Blythe.
And like the rest of the team, Elaine has a healthy interest in politics and music; “I’m a bit of a Six Music geek” she said (rhyming off all the presenters and their schedules) “so being able to write and have Six Music on in the background is pretty much Heaven!”.
And never one to miss a challenge, Elaine is going to finish her BA with a top-up year starting in September 2018. “I like to keep busy I guess…” she said with a smile and a shrug, putting on her wellies for the umpteenth time.
The Grow Traffic team are back in the office after an exciting night at the Rossendale Business Awards. It was a great opportunity to catch up with the local business community, meet friends and make new ones. A couple of our customers were in attendance or up for awards, and of course we got to sponsor and present an award (which was exciting!)
We’re pleased to announce GrowTraffic’s Managing Director, Rachel Weinhold, has been nominated for the Enterprising Woman category of the Rossendale Business Awards 2017. Read More
I’ve got a rule that I don’t do party political when I’m blogging. So I’ll try my best to remain as objective as possible whilst speaking about the Labour Party’s 2017 manifesto pledge to increase the number of Bank Holiday’s to 12 if they are elected.
The reason I feel obliged to get into this debate is because I carried out some research on this last year as part of a campaign concept creation for a certain absence management software firm, so I’ve spent many hours getting a perspective on this.
The basic premise of the campaign was to educate business owners about the benefits of employees taking time off. I believed this would facilitate the creation of a campaign that wasn’t overly sales orientated, but which was well aligned to the core functionality of the product, and which was also contrary to the prevailing machismo of entrepreneurial literature – at least enough to make business owners sit up and take notice. Read More
We’ve all heard about the offices of the world’s leading tech-brands. But have you ever wondered if you should be adapting your workplace to follow these trends? Based in Bacup in Rossendale in deepest darkest east Lancashire, we don’t see many businesses embracing that ethos around here – but on a day to day basis I see this spreading from outwards from the centre of Manchester. And Rossendale really isn’t that far from Manchester.
I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in a comprehensive research program, working with leading business psychologists and workplace consultants, reviewing the emerging phenomenon of engaging workspaces. Despite having summarised this to some extent before, in this post I wanted to summarise some of the things we learned and apply some of those thoughts to Rossendale (where I live). Read More
So last week, on 9th November, we had a rather exciting evening here at GrowTraffic. After much build up and a lot of difficult judging (some may call it arguing!), it was finally the awards dinner itself for the 2016 Rossendale Business Awards, where GT were sponsoring the Creative Business category.
Held at the impressively large and well-appointed Whitworth Riverside, the evening was the culmination of much hard work by the event’s organisers, the Valley at Work business networking group, and was the perfect opportunity for Rossendale businesses to come together, let their hair down and celebrate another year’s great work. And what a celebration it was!
But in amongst all the other impressive businesses there on the night was the one that shone out the most for us, the winner of our Creative Business award in fact, the fabulous Kidult and Co. I met up with the girls earlier this week to talk about the business, their success and what it meant to win this award. Read More
It’s been an exciting week at GrowTraffic, because this week was the week of the Rossendale Business Awards where we got to present the Creative Business category which we sponsored and helped to judge.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were busy at GT HQ with our judging hats on busy working our way through the nominations for the incredibly strong category, that was full of exceptional local businesses. This was round one of the judging process and it was a tough call! Read More
The term Blue Monday was developed in 2005 by Dr Cliff Arnall of Cardiff University’s Centre for Lifelong Learning, who created a formula to ascertain which day was the most miserable of the year. His formula took into account the weather, debt, the time since Christmas, when we are most likely to fail our new year’s resolutions and motivational levels. Read More
There is no getting around it, every business needs a website. It helps prospective customers find you, like you, and contact you. And by using GrowTraffic for your web build, your business is more likely to be found on search engines.
Whether it is a one page business card website, or a complex eCommerce site, we can help get you online with our affordable SEO web design services.
Based in Rossendale, in the beautiful East Lancashire, we specialise in all things SEO and have a web design service that can really add value to your website build. We only work with exceptional designers whose work we can guarantee and, as we collaborate from the start of a project, we can ensure that all the websites we build are eye catching yet functional.
Our intention in everything we do is to make sure that your new website attracts traffic and then converts it. From simple, no-nonsense websites to large e-commerce sites, GrowTraffic has helped design and build them all. We make websites that make you money.
There’s absolutely no way of getting around this; in this modern age of technology, it’s essential that all businesses have a web presence of one form or another. We can’t stress that enough and most of you will be well aware of this already, but for those of you who are trying to fight against the tide, now is the time to concede defeat gracefully and jump on the bandwagon.
Whatever shape or size your business comes in and whoever your target audience is, having a successful website is crucial if you want your customer base to grow and your revenue to thrive. Building a website that works for your company and your customers is a huge undertaking though and can be a daunting task, especially as websites now need to be exceptional and regularly maintained in order to rank time and again.
Whilst almost anyone can design and build a website (there are loads of companies out there that will help you build a ‘bog standard’ website quickly and cheaply), very few people are dedicated SEO Consultants who can ensure that your website is search engine optimised from the very beginning.
And after all, what is the point of having a website if no one can find it?
Almost anyone can build a website these days, and there are some really good web design agencies out there who can build beautiful, high functioning websites. We should know, we work with a lot of them in Rossendale and Rotherham.
But not many web design agencies optimise your website before it goes live. And optimising a site once it has gone live is much more difficult (and therefore expensive).
By using GrowTraffic’s web design services for, or even during, your web build, we can make sure your key words are targeted to give you the best rate of return, that your copy is well written for your target audience, and that your site is Google friendly and will be ranked favourably.
A new website does not rank, and getting it to rank requires skill. It is a real shame that so many websites are launched with poor optimisation and never really bring in the customers to repay the cost of having the site built. By using GrowTraffic in the first instance, your future customers are much more likely to find your new website.
GrowTraffic can work with your existing web designer to make sure the website is search engine friendly, or can build the site ourselves.
Get in touch to find out more.
If you’re a Lancashire based business it stands to reason you’d want to use a local supplier for your search engine optimisation (SEO) services.
I’m Simon Dalley and I’m been ideally placed to SEO Lancashire business. I’ve been involved in search engine optimisation for the past 8 years and we understand how important it is that I’m only a car journey away. This helps me get a better understanding of clients’ requirements and allows clients to have maximum input in how we optimise and what we optimise for.
For the most part I’ve worked and lived in Lancashire all my life. I was born in Preston, grew up in Euxton near Chorley, have worked on the Fylde Coast near Blackpool, Leyland and in the beautiful Ribble Valley.
Whilst these days, as a Lancashire SEO consultant I generally work from Greater Manchester (be fair, it’s still part of historic County Palatine of Lancashire). GrowTraffic moved to Bacup in East Lancashire in 2013 and is headed up by myself and Rachel – who writes awesome SEO orientated copy – and from where we provide digital marketing services to Rossendale, as well as businesses from further afield. And by that I mean the whole of the UK, not just Burnley!
I believe that digital marketing services are often best carried out by someone with local understanding who can jump in a car and meet up with a client face to face. If you’re looking for SEO Lancashire, Internet Marketing Lancashire and our other Lancashire-centric online services please contact us now or for more information check out search engine optimisation.
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Originally based in Chorley near Preston, we moved our digital marketing agency to Bacup in Rossendale in 2013. Whilst basing ourselves in Rossendale, we provide digital marketing services, specialising in SEO, content marketing, social media marketing and web design throughout Lancashire, Yorkshire, & UK as a whole.
Rossendale Business Awards 2018 Business of the Year (5-10 employees)
GrowTraffic was founded by digital marketing specialist and SEO expert Simon Dalley in 2009. Content queen and grammar-expert Rachel Weinhold joined to look after the existing clients and rapidly grew the business. Since then we have added more members to the team, with Hannah joining in summer of 2017 and Elicia soon afterwards in the Sheffield office, helping GT to exponentially grow. Elaine followed not long after and is based in good old Lancashire.
Although we’re an internet marketing agency and consultancy in one of the most beautiful parts of East Lancashire, we don’t work exclusively with businesses from Lancashire and have clients from around the country.
GrowTraffic provides an in-depth analysis of your web presence to clearly show how your site is performing, coming up with detailed plans to dominate the search engines through joined up copywriting-focussed, content marketing orientated SEO campaigns.
At GrowTraffic we don’t make promises we can’t deliver. We come up with a strategy, collaborating with business owners and based on our experience. We recognise you probably won’t be clients forever, but we would like to think that by working closely with businesses in an open and honest manner, we can create long-term relationships which benefit your business time and again.
We are always happy to have a chat and will offer honest advice without agenda. And, unlike some companies, we don’t charge every time you pick up the phone to us-client or not!
We want to make the SEO world a better place. We don’t charge astronomical prices or have unreasonable contract terms, and we won’t ever sell you something you don’t need.
Why don’t you give us a call and find out how we can help your business today?
Find out more about the digital marketing services we offer from our Bacup base, in the heart of the Forest of Rossendale.
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Our MD and the one you'll hear from most. Rachel makes sure our quality is sky high and ensures we deliver.
Our Commercial Director brings massive commercial and operational experience to the service we provide.
Founder of GrowTraffic, with a decade and a half's experience in senior agency and client-side marketing roles.
Elicia creates and strategises high quality, perfectly optimised content to get your business noticed on and off line.
Elaine has a real flair for writing and feels it's definitely her way of making a positive difference to people’s lives
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