As technology advanced and the internet became more sophisticated during the early 1990’s, it became more convenient for business owners to find merchant services online rather than arranging meetings with their bank manager or flicking through telephone directories to find the best rates.

Previously payment processing providers would be able to get a business approved for a merchant account because of their long history and a good reputation is what acquirers desire in order to avoid fraudulent transactions.

The main concern for merchant services providers at present is to be noticed on the webs major search engines and it can be very difficult to achieve this for a commercial website. Thankfully there are SEO consultants available in the UK who are fully up to date with advances in search engine optimization, for example, new features have arisen such as Google Rich snippets that make your listing stand out even more.

It is always good to have a copywriter working on a business website because search engines love to see original written content regularly added and they also like backlinks from credible sources such as press releases. Local SEO Expert handle campaigns for business websites all across the United Kingdom where they implement the knowledge they have gained by taking SEM exams and monitoring the techniques which work and those which no longer work over the last several years.

‘Local SEO Expert regularly contribute to the PDQMachine blog on behalf of their client because we understand that original content is one of the cornerstone aspects of a successful SEO campaign.’ quoted by spokesperson Richard Brown when questioned what makes them different from other web consultancies.

Richard goes on to mention ‘We love to research the different markets our clients are active in and really get involved by creating viral marketing campaigns such as infographics and flash banners’. PDQ machines can be a quite dull subject to talk about but when the system behind them is analysed it is quite interesting how much effort is put in to security and efficiency for consumers to make easy payments.

PDQ terminals operate by requesting a customer insert their smart card credit or debit card into the reader where information stored on an electronic chip is checked against a pincode only the customer knows. PDQ card terminals come in a few different ranges and these include static, cordless or fully portable for payments on the move, the newest range even has NFC capability for even faster transactions.