SEO Doesn’t Have To Take Forever At Least Not For me V 2.0
SEO Doesn’t Have To Take Forever At Least Not For me V 2.0
I am tired of hearing that SEO takes a long time. I don’t believe this to be true, at least not for me. Now, I will agree if you are in a competitive market and you have 20 – 30 websites determined to be on the first page of Google for your targeted keywords you will have a difficult if not nearly impossible task on your hands. This is especially true if any of these sites are several years old and the keyword phrase appears in their url.
There is one thing to remember about SEO. The difficulty factor has very little to do with the number of search results that a particular search produces. Last year we created some Do Follow list of blogs and forums. At that time a Google search for “Do Follow List” Produced around 156 Million results. Yet, our page that targeted this search went to the first page in less than a month and stayed there.
Why was this possible? The fact is that even though 156 Million pages included these three words on a page it still was not a competitive search at that time. This was not a search that was competitive. People wrote about the subject and that was about it. Since then the search has become much more competitive with many sites offering lists and Do Follow search capabilities and tools.
Several months ago I created a new page on the website that targets Holistic SEO. This search produces about 390,000 results. We were able to land that page on the first page within three weeks. This is not a highly competitive search by volume.
Last Month I re-titled my blog to include the keyword phrase Phoenix SEO. This search for Phoenix SEO only produced 304,000 results at that time. However, there are perhaps 20 companies actively targeting this phrase. Yet, in less than three weeks we were a regular on the first page of Google for this search. My advantage here is I have a blog that is regularly updated. It is mostly competing against static pages. Thus I have a huge advantage and the blog has gone as high as # 2.
Then on April 2 I created another yet another page That targets Arizona SEO Solutions. This is another low volume low but competitive search. After less than two weeks that page ranks # 2 in Google searches. Google often ranks new pages well. Staying there has proven much harder because it is competitive. There are about 20 companies that are actively pursuing this search. Now, I am no genius here. I don’t use any tricks and only I use good old basic SEO and basic ethical link building methods. I also pick my targets well. There is nothing automated here we manually acquire links . We earn links by adding value to other sites and by providing something worth linking too.
I shake my head when I read that SEO takes time.
Update 05/18/2010: I have been proving that ranking well is not difficult or at least in most local or niche markets. I have recently written several posts here that targeted specific communities for our SEO Services. I have seen some of these posts go to the number one position immediately and stay there.
However, I am working on a project that is more competitive and it required lots of links. Even though the site had been around for five years it didn’t have any backlinks at all. It began it rank well for some long tail keywords almost right away. However, it has taken three months to rank on the first page of Google for its primary keyword phrase. Had I spent more time on this project it likely could have occurred much more quickly.
SEO is easy if you are highly motivated, which I am.
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Need A Free Website V 2.0
This was one of the first posts that I ever wrote on this blog. It’s all about a fledgling SEO business that started with a free website from Microsoft.
But before we get into the original post I wanted to mention that this post has been rewritten so that I might target the following keyword phrase:
SEO Mesa Website and Internet Marketing Services and Solutions
I wanted you to know this:
If you arrived here looking for the following services: SEO, Internet or Website Marketing Services in Mesa, Arizona you are here because I specifically targeted you for business. Tucson SEO is an expert at Geo-targeting as evidenced by your visit here. You really should call me if your want your local business on the first page of Google for multiple keyword phrases.
Now the original post from 2008.
This is no joke you can get an absolutely free basic website. The website comes with a free domain name, email, and free web hosting. This offer isn’t a free offer like Geocities or Google’s free offering.
You get to choose your unique domain name, if its available of course. Big Brother is making the offer, no the other older big brother. This offer is from Microsoft’s Office Live group. To get started you need to go here, http://smallbusiness.officelive.com.
The software that is used is a WYSIWYG editor. You choice of templates are limited, as in very limited, but it’s free. You don’t have to put up with text ads which is way cool.
We started this SEO business with an Office Live website and made tens of thousands of dollars using the site. The great thing about the software is that it is very SEO friendly. It allows you to create your own page titles, descriptions, and keywords. Yes, Google may not use them but others do including MSN might.
The software is a bit buggy but it’s free. It saved us lots of money and it made us lots of money. When we closed the MSN account we controlled the domain name and took it with us.
Update May 2010: From those beginnings using a free website we have expanded to be a national Local SEO provider all across the US. Every time I mention this tale I still get chills. You just goes to show what a truly motivated person with a vision can accomplish. Heck, the latest Google Rankings Report for May indicates that we ranked on that day for 107 keyword phrases.
If you are serious about leveraging the internet in Mesa, Arizona or beyond you should be calling now… Really. It’s not a matter of if we can do it It’s a matter of when do you want to get started?
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When Your Website Goes Down
When Your Website Goes Down
You never know what’s around the next internet corner. Today, as in right now I am on hold with my web host, Host Gator. It seems my websites database has gone missing in action. Hopefully, this is something minor and that they can fix it easily. For now I wait and tell this story as it unfolds.
Fortunately, I have a back up database mailed to me on a regular basis. The last back-up was on Sunday, April 30th. Hopefully, this situation will not require the use of this back-up but its nice to know that it is there.
Everything seemed to be working Ok today. I went into the blog and had just updated a draft post and I submitted it for publishing. As usual I check to see if the post published without a problem. That’s when I discovered that I didn’t have a database. All that my website showed was the header and footer with nothing in between.
Nothing will change the direction of your day like finding out your website no longer has any content on display. This is especially true when you consider that the site has over 400 pages of content and perhaps 1700 comments or so.
I am now 20 minutes into this call and nothing has changed yet!
By now, we are 45 minutes into this call. The tech was able to get the posts and pages restored into the sites dashboard. However, only the home page is currently available to the public and some blog posts that where in the archives.
I would eventually be directed to a page where I could ask for the site to be restored for a small $15.00 fee. That is a lot cheaper than my web guy charges. So I directed them to restore the site. I was told that my tables got corrupted. All I know for sure is that I hit the preview page after posting to check the post for mistakes.
This is something I almost never do. When I make a post I then go directly to the blog and see if the post updated correctly. I will stick with this method in the future.
Well, it’s a few hours later and my problem was handled very quickly by the staff at Host Gator. I want to give the staff a big shout for fixing this problem and doing so quickly. The problem was a crashed table in the database and a wrong permission. That’s all over my head but the bottom line is that the site is up and running again!
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