Can Google’s search results be trusted?
May 4, 2008
We just did a search Google search for “niche SEO’ where we are usually in the number # 1 or #2 position bouncing back and forth with Aaron Wall’s seobook website. To our surprise another website www.seosearchbot.com was in the #1 position. So we visited the site.
The website lacked for content and was easy to read, as it is one of those link directories. We used the Ctrl f command and discovered that the word niche didn’t appear on the page.
We then ventured to check out the pages source code. We did another Ctrl f search and again we came up with no results. So why did this website appear in the search results? Does anyone have a reasonable explanation?
Well, before this even got posted the site dropped to the #4 position. I just don’t know how it ever ranked for niche SEO when the word niche never appears!
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Niche SEO – What a concept
May 4, 2008
We live in Tucson, Arizona, which is a website marketing backwater of sorts. Most business owners that I speak with at my many networking events have little knowledge of the services that we provide.
I ran a local SEO meet-up group but we were lucky if 5 people showed up. So it’s not easy to find a group to talk shop with. Desperate to mingle with others in the industry I traveled the 125 miles north to Phoenix to attend an SEO Meet-up group there.
It was run by a woman from New Mexico. She holds the Arizona franchise for a training academy and travels here monthly to provide training and to market herself through this group.
I was especially thrilled by what I had learned at this gathering. The focus of the meeting was to share our favorite SEO tools and website. It’s always nice to come across useful resources, especially the ones that are free.
In a private conversation after the meeting I discovered that this woman had been providing SEO services and training for seven years. Which is to say, a way long time in this industry.
I mentioned that we specialized in niche SEO and she expressed amazement at what she just heard. The concept of Niche SEO seemed about as far away as Yuma, or her native New Mexico. She explained that she had never heard of niche SEO before today. Actually, I wasn’t sure who was more surprised me or her.
Our version of niche SEO is exactly what the name implies. We offer SEO to niche industries. It’s merely a more focused approach to SEO. We simply go where the competition isn’t. After all, isn’t this what keyword search and long tails are all about? It’s about finding niches that are related to our client’s products or services that others are not using.
Does your business have niche products or services? Then we are your small business SEO Solution in Tucson.
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The best SEO blog in the world!
May 2, 2008
The best SEO blog in the world!
We are not even close… We are but a tiny speck on the SEO Blog radar screen.
This post genesis occurred as part of a conversation with my business partner about our obtaining a #1 ranking for an SEO related search nationally. The interesting thing was that I was in the middle of writing a post about our #1 ranking. That search on Google is for the search “Geo-Targeted SEO.” We have been #1 ranked for “Tucson SEO” for the last 6 months or so.
She laughed and mentioned that she was just on the blog Pimp my Page Rank. She pointed out that they had written that they are #1 ranked “the best SEO blog in the world.” I checked it out and it is true.
We continued to discuss how not all #1 rankings are the same.
So we did a Google search for “the best SEO blog in the world, a very long tail, and found 76 references. Not bad at all, this blogger has marketed their blog well.
We then did a Search for “Tucson SEO” and discovered 1,710 references. Yes we have been very busy marketing ourselves over the last year. Actually I was very surprised by this result. The last time I checked it hovered around a thousand. We then checked out a search term were we ranked #1 that was SEO related and not part of the business name. Our search for “Geo-targeted SEO” it revealed 2,650 results.
It just goes to show that not all search #1’s rankings are the same , or of equal value. In the case of “Tucson SEO” and “the best blog in the world” we should be #1 because the search included a business and a blog Title. If you are not showing up #1 for your business name then you defiantly could use SEO assistance.
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Your Fresh Start .us obtains a Page Rank of 4
May 2, 2008
To our clients and potential clients Page Rank is not something that they know about or care about. It seems like the only people who care about Page Rank are webmasters and alike. I will freely admit for me it’s an ego thing. Our website had a PR of 4 and dropped to a three in October of last year. However, at the same time our blog went from a 0 to a PR of 3.
Since we were winding down the cleaning business down as we began our SEO business we were not giving it much attention and were loosing links as time went by. So I was a bit amazed today to discover that both the website and its blog were given a PR of 4. Maybe, it does pay off to voice an opinion or two in support of Google’s position on buying and selling of links. Ya’ just never know!
Actually, this PR change comes at a very good time for us as we begin to market the website differently. Instead of creating cleaning business customers we are using the site as example for our website design and redesign services. We believe it is a good example of how cleaning service website should be.
We observed that most cleaning service website were very unattractive. They were often displaying workers cleaning or wearing cleaning attire. We thought that a premium service needed to display not the tools or workers performing cleaning but the end results of these efforts. So our website scattered about pictures of clean and orderly homes and offices.
We also clearly detailed our services and asked for their business and to contact us now. This is known as a call to action. All of these are very simple techniques but missing on most websites. Our website set an expectation of quality. It portrays our message very effectively.
The Your Fresh Start website is the standard that we use when selling our website design services to our potential web site design service clients.
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Craigslist Launched An SEO Career!
May 1, 2008
Craigslist helped launch our SEO career, yes it’s true. We had had a lot of success using Craigslist to marketing our organically grown plant business back in 2005 and 2006. However, we could not overcome a severe drought that has gripped the desert southwest were we live for several years.
We closed that business and took the summer off to rest and reflect on our future. With a new source of income needed, as the autumn months approach, we called upon our past experience running a janitorial business, to launch our new endeavor. We knew that commercial services were not the route that we wanted to take.
We choose to open, or I should say “I” choose to open a professional house cleaning service. What we experienced using Craigslist was a race to become the lowest priced vendor cleaning home that hadn’t been cleaned in years. That was not my vision for our business.
I observed that none of my Craigslist competitors had a website to link to in their ads. That’s when the lights went off… So to speak, in my head… “If only I had a professional website that I could link to in my ads” So I thought, I could explain how dependable that I am and why my services were worth a premium price.
The problem was that there was no money for a website. Like any good entrepreneur I realized that bartering was my only option. Finally, a designed agreed to exchange his services for mine. However, this might take a while and I needed a website now.
My solution was a one page free geo-cities website from Yahoo. The site was up in an hour or two. Now, it was time to visit Craigslist to place a free ad that included a link to the new one page website.
My phone rang early the next morning, the caller explained I am on your website and I would like to set up an appointment for a consultation. We agreed to work together and this couple became my most lucrative client. This is my story of Craigslist launching my SEO career? I knew that day that this Internet thing was for me! The rest is history!
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Thank You Google For A PR 4
May 1, 2008
Thank You Google For A PR 4
We just discovered that our Page Rank was gone from a 3 to a 4. We are rightly proud of this accomplishment. The website has only been in existence for a year. We never used any link bait to create lots of traffic.
Well, that is until after we obtained our current page rank. We have embarked on our version of link bait with our “Do Follow List Of lists.” This actually was created as a public service and a thank you to the blogging community.
We are in business today because other Bloggers shared their perspectives and knowledge. We used blogs almost exclusively to gain our links and Page Rank. We read early in our SEO career that relevant site links was the way to linking success. We also read that slow and steady growth was the best way to build links.
Our goal has been 5 links a day every day seven days a week. Well, we have fallen short of that goal with about 950 links over the past year. At one link at a time that’s a lot of blogging.
We tell clients, friends, and seminar attendee’s that this is part of our continuing education. We build links while building our knowledge base. Then of course the “No Follow” rules have made blogging for links much more difficult.
So recently we started exploring “Do Follow Lists.” We were surprised that so many of these lists were not kept up to date. So we have started our own compiling our own lists with the idea of keeping them current. This is a huge time consuming process.
The process was not made any easy when we were transferring files from one computer to another and 8 hours of work disappeared. We downloaded some recovery software to no avail, but we will not be deterred. The blogosphere has given freely to us and it is our time to return the favor.
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