I am pleased to announce that after lots of research, coding, site validation and a few headaches JustinMarch.com has finally been redesigned.

The site has been redesigned to reflect my decision to concentrate on my Web Design, SEO, & PPC services.  There is also a new page dealing with Social Media Marketing and a bunch of revamped pages including my Profile Page.  I am still offering simple Graphic Design Services to compliment my other work but Graphic Design will not be my main focus moving forward.

The redesign not only signals a determination to enlarge the business this year, but also a realisation that I have projects of my own that I want to start concentrating on.

The new site features updated graphics and focuses on pushing my SEO & Web Design services in the Gloucester and Cheltenham areas.

Next step is to redesign this blog in an effort to make it more readable and to help me get more enthusiastic about posting again.

Following on from my post entitled “Some Local Business Listings Disappear on Google Maps” [http://www.justinmarch.com/blog/some-local-business-listing-disappear-google-maps/] it now seems that what I thought was a blip, wasn’t a blip at all.

In early November 2009 I noticed that the Google Maps listing were no longer appearing under some of the phrases where my business listing previously appeared, I first spotted this under a search for “SEO Cheltenham”. I checked the same searches within google.co.uk and google.com and signed in and out of my Google profile all with the same result.

I noticed that it wasn’t happening for searches such as “SEO Bristol” and that it wasn’t anything to do with the Cheltenham area either as a search for “Carpet Cheltenham” confirmed .

Finally an answer from Web Pro News “Google Ditches Local Listings for SEOs and Designers”. Essentially then if you change the search from “SEO location” to “SEO in location” (obviously replacing the word location with your location) the results will magically reappear, this works for “SEO Bristol”, “SEO Cheltenham” and other “SEO” and “Web Design” related terms.

Not all areas seem to be effected but many web designers and SEO’s are up in arms, will this change back after Google have had a chance to go through and eliminate the huge amount of Spam in Local Business Center, only time will tell…