Shopping locally helps with so many things:-

     Reducing transport mileage for you and your purchases.

     Often local goods are cheaper but less well advertised.

     Preserving local services is important for everyone.

       Maintaining local prosperity; what goes around comes around
   
    Time saved can let you do other things.




Shoppers' Habits Are Changing

    The drift from high street to supermarket and out of town shopping is accelerating. The internet and home delivery
    are increasing rapidly. Those who were successful before will not necessarily be successful in the future. To maximize
    your chances of increasing sales you must have a good internet presence that is noticed. The big retailers know this
    and take good advantage from the internet. They are winning the war against other businesses by understanding the
    market better. Pool resources and compete. shoplocal.me.uk is part of that new competition; putting local business
    on the front page.
 
More Links To Other Sites Is The Key For Your Website.

  Linking to other sites is low cost and effective. It takes time to build up your links and discipline over the long term to keep
  up to date. If your advertising is only a website it is not going to succeed like some sites do. Shoplocal systems and effort
  give you a better chance of getting noticed at low cost and once made these links last. No renewal fees apply. Coordinating
  with our neighbours enables the links to be local keeping money in the local economy.
 
Shoplocal Links Are An Evolving System.

  Linking to other sites is a continuous process that evolves in scale as the web evolves. Placing your site on the web is not
  really enough. The big players spend millions on advertising their web shops because they know where the future lies.
   Competing at this level takes coordination and co-operation. Our help can make the difference.

Link Test

  Type shoplocal.me.uk into google. Do the search. See which website is next after shoplocal's. It is Corbetts Electrical.
  This happens because Mr Corbett took the trouble to make a link between his website and ours. A five minute job that
  gets you noticed even when no one is looking for you.

Link Benefits: What Others Say

"Buying a website without search engine optimization is like spending your entire budget on a commercial without buying any air time to show it to the world."

Is Link Popularity Worth Your Time?
“…to have your website be "visible" to the search engines and thus their users, you need to work on getting inbound links. It is something you can do yourself or hire someone to do it for you. Either way, it is a "must do" promotional technique.” (Larry Sullivan, linking101.com)

Online Marketing That Works
“…Thus the question: 'If you can't find the resources through search engines and directories, how do you find them and where do they look?' The answer leads us to the second marketing technique - Link Building.” (Larry Sullivan, linking101.com)

Building Link Popularity Improves Search Engine Ranking
“…A properly executed link building campaign will help boost your ranking with many search engines, but this is only part of the benefit. The quality sites that have agreed to link to you will also send you highly relevant traffic. Also, your brand and name will become better known within your industry as a result of the link requests that you make.” (Scott Buresh, mediumblue.com)

How to Increase Website Link Popularity
“…A properly executed campaign to increase your website link popularity will help boost your rankings with many search engines, but this is only part of the benefit. The quality sites that have agreed to link to you will also send you highly relevant traffic.” (Scott Buresh, mediumblue.com)

Link Popularity Is About More Than Just Search Engines
“…Increasing link popularity is important in search engine optimization and effective linking can give a real boost to rankings. But, there are other important benefits to link popularity that rarely get mentioned.” (Ken McGaffin, mediumblue.com)

A Richer Community Can Do More To Help Itself.

  It stands to reason that when we are well off we can look after each other but that in harder times some groups suffer.
  Local spending depends on you and the choices you make. You must decide who puts in to the community and who
  takes money from it. Think about who you wish to support. It is more important than who you vote for sometimes.

Shopping Locally And The Environment.

   On the face of it reducing food miles is a good idea but more pollution is caused by us driving to the shops for
   odd items that are urgently required. A gallon of petrol for a pint of milk is worse than half a gallon of kerosene for
   a pound of air freight runner beans.

   We suggest using the efficient delivery services offered by supermarkets if that is where you shop. It helps reduce
   impulse buying too.

   We have to think a little about why we are supporting local traders. The distribution of food is made efficient
   by businesses reacting to transport and warehousing costs. Convenience shopping is where the problem can be tackled.
  
   If we use a freezer and adapt our shopping to reduce the number of trips to the shops we can make a small difference.
   In these austerity driven times this makes economic sense too. A large chest freezer will cost £2-£3 a week in electricity
   but pays for itself if you shop one time less in the car. Food can be cheaper too if bought in bulk.

  These are lifestyle choices and the main effect on our quality of life is the availability of good shops. The traffic is always
  going to be excessive for perfect convenience shopping so we must assume those who are out there in their cars need to
  be.
 
 
 



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Supporting our neighbours helps us all