We love Google at UFindus

Google has just been voted the UK’s No.1 brand.

 

The survey,which takes into account the opinions of 1500 professionals within the industry,has seen the BBC get bumped off the top spot where they have been for the past year.

Voting on 500 brands the panel elected the internet Goliath as number one brand and shunted the Beeb down to 4th place.

This follows on from a poll last year which officially recognised Google as the worlds best known brand.

Looking round the UFindUs office it is rare that there will be any other homepage showing apart from Google so I don’t think that this latest accolade for them will be a big surprise. However what you also should look at is the fact that in the top 50 the average age of the ”brand” was 90 years old, Google is the only one in the top 50 which was founded after 1990!

How about that for the power of the internet. 

UFindUs – a sure fire winner

Last week UFindUs.com received another internet accolade form Hitwise. Hitwise are recognised within the industry for the accuracy of their data and are part of the Experian group. 

Having been acknowledged in 2006 as well, we have now taken 7th place in the top ten sites receiving the most web traffic for the category of Business and Finance directories.  It is a tremendous achievement and proves that UFuindUs may not be a site which will win brand awareness awards but when it comes to doing the business we keep on performing.

The interent is a an odd place and very often if a business should even be bothered to ask where the customer heard about them the answer will be I found you on the internet. More accurately it should be “I found your listing on UFindUs” or “I got your number from your website (which has achieved high rankings courtesy of UFindUs).

That aside we are concentrating on maintaining our top 10 position,and, with the rapid surge in traffic that the other Customer Street sites like Smile Local and More UK are seeing its a real win win situation for CustomerStreet customers.  

Getting the most out of your UFindUs package

Its really easy to forget, when your this side of the fence, that not everyone knows or understands how the Internet works. As a business our teams here at Customer Street and UFindUs don’t assume that just because someone has taken out our package they will immediately know how to make the most out of the opportunity we put before them.

We realised a long time ago that we don’t just stumble across happy customers, we create them. We have a great product which for over5 years has continued to grow and develop alongside the Internet. But, and there is always a but, the way things work on the Internet changes on a weekly basis. What was right last week may not be right today.

We cant expect the average Customer Street or UFindUs customer to possibly keep abreast with these changes as they happen. At the end of the day they have businesses to run themselves. What we can however do is make keeping up to date with these changes a lot easier.

Our search manager Lee Johnson is on hand to get relevant snippets of information out to our customers by way of his almost daily posts on his SEO blog.  As consumers we should never underestimate the power of what can be achieved through the power of the Internet, and as Customer Street customers you shouldn’t underestimate the wealth of resources that you can draw on to make sure that the services we provide you with continue to offer excellent value by delivering a service second to none.    

Check out Lee’s blog and store it as a favourite so that you dont miss out on any of his hints and tips.