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When Your Website Goes Down V2.0

July 10, 2010

When Your Website Goes Down V 2.0

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 30^th. 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!

The version V2.0 part.

I upgraded my website about five weeks after this first story occurred. As you may already know upgrades can often be a problem and this was not the exception. Everything appeared ok until a scheduled post went live. That post took over the sites home page and the blogs home page turned onto a 404 page. Ouch!

This story would eventually have many different twists and turns. I first hired a rookie who talked a good game but only ended up making things worse. Then his solution was basically to start over using a new theme. He told me as it was the site could not be fixed. Well, he was swiftly removed from the project.

I eventually found someone in Ontario, Canada with years of experience. His services were not inexpensive per hour but it didn’t take him long to fix the site. What I appreciated was that he did a diagnostic review before any work was started. He charged $60.00 for this service. And I was glad to pay this sum.

I was also pleased because he does business like I do. We both charge upfront to review the situation and to come up with a game plan and pricing options. I was extremely pleased by the process. It also reaffirmed my own business practice.

Though the process was stressful, mostly due to the initial hiring mishap, I am grateful it’s over..This challenge helped me become a better person and a better business person. It also provided renewed respect from Geri. She commented many times how well I had handled the situations.

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Twitter May Have Some SEO Value After All

June 17, 2010

Twitter May Have Some SEO Value After All

If you are a regular around here you might have noticed that I am not a big fan of using this micro blogging service. As evidenced by my opening line which goes 117 characters long I don’t do Readers Digest condensed version of anything well.

So the constraints of 140 characters is very a challenge for me. But my disdain for Twitter goes much deeper than that. I like useful relevant information. So what someone had for lunch or what they did last night is meaningless for me.

Originally, I thought it would be a good idea for follow some other individuals and companies that are also providing SEO services. The problem with this idea is that when I followed links from these Tweets, it was mostly just noise.

It seemed that everyone that I was following was tweeting almost anything related to SEO. Most of this information was a waste of time for me. I wasn’t getting the fresh information that I desired.

As for the SEO side of me, that is really where I see little value in using Twitter. The links that are provided on Twitter are no follow links so they don’t help in the search rankings. I tend to only use sites that provide Do Follow links for obvious reasons.

I also observed that my Twitter traffic bounced 100% of the time. That means these visitors came, they looked around, and within 20 seconds they were gone. So I figured why bother. That was until today.

I read a comment on Bruce Clays website that made me rethink my position on Twitter. The writer indicated that yes Twitter links are No Follow. But they noted that when they are re-tweeted they may appear as Do Follow Links.

The problem that I have with this idea is that well this is true, Twitter links still don’t provide anchor text links. Twitter re-tweets still will only provide a generic website link. However, That is just enough of a reason to give Twitter another look.

I also am planning on using Twitter in an upcoming video marketing campaign. So it might benefit me to acquire a few more followers. I have already set up profiles on several hundred sites that allow Twitter feeds to be used. So the plan is to connect as many of these sites as possible.

It should be an interesting adventure.

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Keeping Up Woth Page Rank V 2.0

June 4, 2010

Keeping Up With Page Rank

This is not a post that indicates some hidden truth or explanation about Page Rank. No, it is simply a post that indicates why I pay so little attention to it. Our site and blog had been sitting with a PR of 3 up until the most recent update. Then they both dropped down to a PR of 2. Both had seen steady increases in links so I was a bit perplexed, but it seemed to be part of a general trend. Many websites are experiencing PR down grades these days.

Then I noticed that our Tucson Small Business Networking Group site had a PR of 4. The site was just launched in May and Yahoo’s Site Explorer showed only 17 backlinks recorded. How could this be? Brand new sites are not supposed to have any PR. So how then did I end up with a PR of 4? This is beyond my understanding. Page rank is supposed to be a delayed report based on months old information.

Then today I discovered that the site and blog now have a PR of 3 and the networking site has experienced a downgrade to a PR 3. Could it be a fluke in the Page Rank? I don’t know. It is still this way days later and nothing has changed!

Well over a years time that situations changed. This website now has a PR of 0, but it still ranks well. As for me I only concern myself about page rank when I am building backlinks.

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Did You Know?

May 30, 2010

Before I get into today’s post I wanted to let you know that I am specifically targeting the following phrase.

SEO Tempe Internet Website Marketing Services

I am specifically targeting the following keyword phrases with this post:

Tempe SEO
SEO Tempe
Internet Marketing Tempe
Tempe Internet Marketing
Website Marketing Tempe
Tempe Website Marketing

And a few other combination’s.
It is important that you know this if you have reached this blog post by using a search engine that you are here because I targeted you. I want your business. I want you to know that upfront. I used the SEO process to find potential customers in Tempe, Arizona. If you are here because of using a search engine this simply validates that I know how to use search engines to drive highly targeted to my website and yours.

Did you a;so know that a blog is the single most important Internet – Website Marketing Tools available today? Or that’s my opinion and I am sticking with with.

There are many reasons why this is true, but for now I am going to focus on just a few areas here. I believe that the blog rules. For one, it allows you to create new pages whenever you want to do it. Let’s say your retail outlet just got a great deal on some inventory. With a blog you can create a post that specifically targets that product, community, or keyword phrases.

Just as I have done here today. This page is targeting the community of Tempe, Arizona for the services of SEO, Internet & Website Marketing Services. The beauty here is that by targeting my services to the city of Tempe it makes the search both niche and local. This means that those like you would are searching for my services will find this post.

So If You landed here looking for my services then you will already that not only do I talk the talk but I walk the walk. I simply do what I say that I am going to do and then I do it! Local markets are my area of excellence. If you are serious about growing your local business I can assist you by getting your business in front of customers in your community that are seeking your products and services now!

So if you want to leverage the internet to grow your Tempe business then please do call.

Yes, I am going after a very narrowly defined market. However, I should note that Tempe hosts on a the largest universities in the US, Arizona State University. It is reasonable to assume that many entrepreneurs residing there might need my services. Plus the city has several hundred thousands residents some of whom might look for an local SEO provider.

A blog like this allows you to generate fresh content through visitor comments which will help improve or maintain the pages search rankings. More on this later…

Update 04/3/02010: Within a day of posting this article it did what I wanted it to do. This page is ranking number 1 for Tempe SEO. The interesting thing about this is that it brought another page along in the rankings. This is what happened. My static page that targets Tempe SEO improved in the rankings as well. These pages are ranking both # 1 and # 2 for this keyword phrase. They have effectively replaced two pages from my Tempe SEO .com site that I recently closed.

Update 05/14/2010 The whole purpose of this post was to rank # 1 or # 2 for the search query Tempe SEO. I can gladly report that this effort has succeeded. This page ranks # 1. It really is this easy to rank well in local markets.

Update 06/01/2010: It has been two months now and this page is still ranking number 1 for the keyword phrase Tempe SEO. So yes, adding content and comments can maintain a pages search rankings.

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An SEOs Love Story V 2.0 Living With Dying

March 13, 2010

Here is the original story: An SEO Love Story – This Post Is Not About SEO

I help people get there websites properly indexed by Google for their targeted keyword phrases. The idea is to their their websites high up in the search engine results, and more specifically in the Google search results. I really enjoy what I do as it can have an enormously positive impact on my clients business. I believe in a triple win philosophy where the searcher is happy because they found may clients site and they had their want fulfilled. The client is happy because their website is finally producing income and I am happy because they are happy. I really love what I do. I don’t sell useless products or services like many SEO do just to make a buck. My work is truly a labor of love.

But it is a woman named Geri that I meet eight years ago and who I grew to love that has my attention, now. She is dying. She doesn’t like me saying that because she doesn’t want to loose hope. I however must deal with the cards that I have been dealt. Her liver is shot and when your liver isn’t working lots of other body parts begin to fail as well.

She ended up being hospitalized on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. I took her there again on New Years Day. Every time the visits are getting closer together. On the way to the hospital she jokingly asked what’s the next holiday. Then she wryly asked isn’t there a presidents birthday coming up. Faced with adversity she went for levity.

We don’t have insurance so the emergency room is our entry point for health care. Every time we leave they give us treatment plans that are never fulfilled because we can not pay for them. We have tried to get government assistance but we are still waiting.

Yesterday, they could barely draw blood because she never got the transfusions that she needs ans has lost a lot of blood. The liver helps the blood clotting process and without that she bleeds easily. I feel so guilty that this business could not been able to support her medical needs. I am a very emotional person and writing about our struggles is my release valve.

But out of all of this there was a success story. We made it to the library on New Years Eve. It was our first trip outside the home together since she was put on oxygen 24/7. It may not sound like much but for us it was like a holiday. Later we sat in bed together and talked, not only that, we laughed and smiled. I allowed my silly side to come out and her smile seemed to be the happiest smile that I had ever seen. She actually looked cute from behind her oxygen cannula. It was as if it wasn’t there. I will always cherish that moment, her smile, and that radiant glow. Then she began the downward spiral again.

She would not let me stay this time in the emergency room. She said she could not tolerate seeing me sad sad and uncomfortable and that it was too hard on her. She’s dying and she worrying about me. That is what I would call An SEO love story. As it was I could not sleep. I just put on another pot of coffee and I wait and when I can not wait any more I will call the hospital to find out what room she is in… or if…

An update 01/25/2010: Well, Geri has managed to stay out of the hospital for about 18 days until recently. She has returned again for the fourth time in less than three months. This time she has acquired pneumonia even though she has had a recent vaccine shot. Apparently, it does cover all the various varieties. This is scary stuff. Ever time that she has returned to the hospital a few pints of blood got her feeling better almost withing 24 hours, but not now the rules are different this time around.

I am scared and trying very hard not to show it. She asked me today “Do I looked any better today? The nurses said that I look better.”OMG, I wanted to cry. My response was “You look marvelous, darling.” All the while I was praying that she was to tired to read the pain in my face. I quickly changed the subject.

Again, I want to thank all of who have visited and left us with your kind words and thoughts. I especially want to thank a blogger named Mitch who was returned to follow this story and has left very warm and kind messages.

I want to thank all of you who have supported us with your thoughts and prayers.

Since late November my Soul Mate, my Friend, my SO (Significant Other), Geri and I have been valiantly struggling with life, living, happiness and the uncertainty that is inherent with dying. From time to time I have returned here to my blog to share our lives with you. Tonight, I will be sharing what we learned today while visiting her new primary care physician.

We have become more proactive about her health care and we had determined we need to find a doctor who would become more involved in her care. We had been getting the run around from her health care providers about her life expectancy. This doctor did an extremely thorough exam. He preformed like most doctors would if they had time. His insightfulns and patience were very reassuring to us. We nodded to each other during his in depth questioning acknowledging this guy was a keeper.

Then in a very straight forward manner he inquired if we wanted to know the truth about her life expectancy. Geri, trying to protect me suggested that I leave. I refused, I had expectations of getting a health reality check today, so I wasn’t going anywhere. He suggested that she likely had three months to live. It was what I wanted to hear while at the same time it was not what I wanted to hear. I was quickly overcome with grief and it showed. It showed so much so that the doctor expressed his regret for have gone down this path.

I reassured him that even though it was extremely difficult for us to face we had to know. All of our care providers had avoided discussing death and dying with us. However, the new doctor stepped right up and deliver a strong dose of reality for us. I assured him that this was really important for us it would now allow us to openly address our end of life decisions.

(Snack break time)

Well, I just took a break and ended up having a very open talk with Geri about what we had experienced today. I noted that I was blogging about it just prior to this discussion. She is note real thrilled to have our lives on display this way, but she recognizes it value for me and relents with the classic rolling of her eyes. In her usual blunt approach she explains to me that “I don’t care about dying” she pauses. Then she explains “I’ll be dead so I won’t care. It is you and others that I care about, you’ll be left behind.” We have grown to call these moments “Gerisms.”

This was one the best exchanges that I may have ever had with Geraldine. It was a no walls zone where we discussed the reality of her ending days. At times like this life takes on new dimensions. Things that didn’t much matter matter a lot and things that were important aren’t so much anymore. We are truly living one day at a time. As for Geri her spirits remain extremely positive despite the grim prognosis. The most important thing for me is that she is not in pain which she isn’t.

Now a business update:

On the brighter side of things business wise. I am working on the details for a new product launch where I will be providing video SEO and link building training. I am very excited about this project. It will be a component of a much larger program. That program will include providing websites for small business owners along with hosting and SEO for a monthly fee.

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Google Sandbox Theory Debunked V 2.0

February 24, 2010

This post first appeared back in May of 2008.

I had been reading every since I got into Internet Marketing about this mythical thing called a Google sandbox. I never believed it and by the time this blog arrived I had three sites that ranked right out the gate and stayed there. This would seem to put holes in this theory, at least for me.

I have since launched six other SEO related websites that very quickly began to rank well in the Google search results. Now, I came to the internet game in late 2006 so it is possible that this sandbox did exist at one time. However, over the last three and a half years I have seen no evidence of its existence.

Surprisingly this topic still comes up for discussion on forums all the time. This is why SEO can be so confusing for so many. Certain practices that once worked will become obsolete over time. However, those who make money on these services have a vested interest in keep the practices going. They want to continue to make money and they could care less if there methods still work. Search engine submission services come to mind. They were a valid service in a previous century but they are mostly useless today.

We re-launched this website back in April of 2008. To market the site we created some linkbait that we call our ‘Do Follow List.” It is a of lists of blogs that still pass link juice from comments on their blog.

Two months later the websites “Do Follow Page” sat at #4 in Google for the keyword phrase “Do Follow List.” Now, up until we began this linkbait effort we were not targeting this phrase. These three words never appeared together on the same page of our website previously to this project.

Now, the original post: Google Sandbox Theory Debunked

This is where the sandbox theory comes into the story. So if you follow the sandbox theory it should take six months before this keyword phrase would start to appear in the SERP’s for our site. Almost every SEO will tell you that any work done on a site will take that long to be effective.

Yet, this phrase, Do Follow List, was regularly appearing on the first page after one month. We did not want to write about this until it had reached the top 5 and stayed there for a week. Well, this just occurred.

You might think that we did so well because our linkbait produced thousands upon thousands of links. However, we were not flooded with tens of thousands of links. We did pick up about 2,000 or so links because of this project.

What I believe had the greatest impact was the comment activity on the blog where the list resides. The comments have dribbled in every other day or so and we responded to every question and almost every comment. We put social into our social media effort.

At the time of the original post there had been 90 comments. Currently (as of) Nov. 28 2008 there are now 345 comments. The search engines reward this kind of activity. The visitors and commenters enjoy being part of the conversation and seeing a lively discussion. Also their kind comments were very encouraging when the process was becoming tedious and boring (maintaining the lists.)

In less than 2 months we were able to rise to the 4th position in Google for a competitive keyword search “Do Follow List”. We are talking 156 million competitive results. The whole process required time commitments that have exceeded 400 hours and we are still counting.

So this is our evidence that the fabled sandbox doesn’t exist. I am so thrilled to have such documented evidence to debunk this theory. We have never believed in the sandbox after our first website went onto the first page of Google results quickly. Skeptics chided me on blogs and forums that it could not be done for a competitive keyword search. I think 156 million results make my point.

This accomplishment is partly due to that fact that few websites are actually making an effort to maintain their interest in the “Do Follow Movement.” We seized the opportunity and began planning our assault on this keyword phrase two months in advance of ever publishing the list. (this has since changed but we still rank at the top for this search)

So my friends there are no secrets in this business, except those held within the algorithms. If you really want to obtain the first page of results, it is obtainable; you don’t have to except sandbox theories. You really only need a burning desire to be a winner, a good plan that is well executed, time, and resources.

Success is within reach, you just have to want it bad enough and ignore those who say it can’t be done. Believe in the sandbox theory if you must for me is has never existed.

We invite you to join the conversation and leave a comment. We also invite you to continue the conversation on your blog or perhaps use a trackback, or maybe even social bookmark this article, give it a Digg or Stumble it.

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Flirting With The Big Leagues Of SEO – We Have Arrived

February 20, 2010

Flirting With The Big Leagues Of SEO: This was one of the first posts that I wrote when we launched this blog back in May of 2008. I thought that perhaps may regular readers might enjoy this look back.

Our Business has had tremendous success obtaining first page placement in the Goggle search results for SEO related search queries. This has all been accomplished in just over 14 months. We first began to study search engine optimization back in October of 2006. Our website developer, who offers SEO, told us if we ever got onto the first page it would take six months. (This was for a house cleaning business that we closed to launch Tucson SEO Solutions.) This is the standard line of many SEO providers.

The website that we are talking about was a local house cleaning service, Your Fresh Start. That website went to the first page of the Google results within 3 days and has been there ever since. We have since closed that business and have been providing SEO services since we launched our site in May of 2007. We currently are ranked # 1 nationally on Google for 5 searches that include the word SEO in the query string.

It truly blows me away every time I think about our success. We tell you this not to brag, but to verify that we do know our business well. However, one keyword search has eluded me thus far and it is “Local SEO.’ Since local SEO is the cornerstone that this business is built upon we would like to be on the first page for this search.

We re-launched this website in mid April of this year using WordPress. We had settled in a regular spot on the third page around position # 35 and it stayed that way for two months. Then we re-evaluated the pages and tweaked our website. This adjustment had a positive impact. Then in June we started using forums that allows us to create Do Follow anchor text links that read “Local SEO.”

The website moved up the ranking for this keyword phrase and settled in at the # 17 position. Then in July we began to place links in every blog post that targeted our sales and services pages. Those anchor text links pointed to our other pages that we wanted to specifically target to increase there presence in the Google SERP’s both nationally and locally.

Recently, we have actually flirted with the first page of Google landing temporarily at the #4 position. We eventually settled in at the #11. For our website to stay on the first page will indeed be a difficult task. It is because local SEO is written about often on authority blogs and Forums. These established websites have a huge advantage over a much newer website such as ours. (We can now usually be found in the # 5 position for Local SEO now and we are in the # 1 position for Local SEO Services.)

However, they are most likely not talking about proving SEO for local websites, as we do. When those in our industry talk about local SEO they are talking about free listings in the Google and Yahoo local business maps. This is a hot topic that when written about on authority blogs tends to bump our site down the list. So yes, we are flirting with the first page of results we are not there yet, but then we like a good challenge.

We highlighted the changes that we made in and effort to point out that SEO is never a one and done process. When we re-launched our website and did not get the results that we wanted we took another look to see what else could be done better. Some of what we tried was just fine tuning. Still other efforts were experiments based on knowledge that we gleaned from other SEO professionals.

Update 02/20/2010: We are now definitely in the big leagues of the SEO ranks. There are a couple of key things that we did in 2009 that have rocked this site onto the first page of Google for over 80 keyword phrases. In January I began to implement the link building program that I call Scratch My Back Marketing. I also added header tags. Then I became a relentless backlinks builder.

Now, I still make mistakes when building links and stick links where they were not intended and I am given the boot. There are plenty of places on most social media sites where you can add some link code. The bio areas come to mind as one area. Some times the code is turned into links only to later be removed or the account is deleted. But that doesn’t happen often. What has happened is that I have been very good at locating web 2.0 social sites that allow blog posts. I simply re-write some of my 350 posts and place them on these sites. I end the posts by signing off with a call to action which usually includes a link or two.

The downside of all of this has been the economy going south. But I am still in business when others have closed there doors and I am grateful for this.

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Shampoo SEO Revisited – 700 Keywords

February 18, 2010

If you have visited my blog since early December you will understand that life has thrown me a big old juice curve ball. I am referring to the critical illness (liver disease) that was struck my life partner and soul mate, Geri.

Having a loved one in and out of the hospital fighting for their lives can be a difficult situation at best. It can at times be a gut wrenching odyssey. This is why I am pleased to announce that she has responded extremely well and is currently undergoing outpatient blood transfusion therapy. Her liver failure has also had a deferential effect on her blood supply. Today all is well.’

So there are some regular ongoing SEO practices that have been left undone. One of my standard SEO recommendations is what I like to call “Shampoo SEO.” What this is involves a review of your Google analytic’s information. Just like shampooing we consider this to be a rinse and repeat operation. We recommend this review be preformed every 30 days. It will show if what you have done is working and what needs to be improved if you pay attention.

Tonight (this morning) was another sleepless one for me and I had become bored with doing link building while performing research. So I thought I should check out Google Analytics while I was doing some other maintenance work. I first noticed that traffic was up about 20% since I last checked in December. That was a pleasant surprise.

I also noticed that my primary keyword phrase, “Tucson SEO” had increased by 22%, this again was a very pleasant surprise. I also noted that those who choose “SEO Tucson” did so at half the rate. This group, however, was 20% less likely to bounce. They stuck a round longer as well.

Put the piece of information that stood out the most was that over the last 30 days searchers used 700 different keyword phrases to reach the site. I don’t know about you but that blows me away. Almost every phrase recorded directly related to SEO, website marketing, and link building.

I am amazed that over 80 keyword phrases that I target and track and that appear on the first page of the Google results. However, that number pales when compared with the potential. This is just another example of why I have so strongly embraced and advocated for long tail keyword phrases. People think differently on just about everything and their search patterns and language vary greatly. On keyword tool will ever provide this kind of information.

I like to call these keyword phrases the low lying fruit. It is relatively easy to rank well for these words and to stay there. If someone used an obscure phrase to find you the chances are good that other will as well. It usually takes very little effort to rank number one for these. Sure not many people will use these but since they appeared in your analytic’s its best to pay attention.

This site actually ranked # 1 for over 60 of these keyword phrases the last time I checked. Most of these phrases are 3 and 4 words long. I often begin to target one or two more phrases that I discovered through this Shampoo SEO process.

This is the kind of information that you just are not going to find using keyword research tools. That primarily because they are used infrequently. I like to call this being the big fish in a little pond.

So let me ask when is the last time that you did some Shampooing of your SEO?

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Posted by Urban | Filed Under Geo Targeting, Shampoo SEO | 3 Comments

TSBNG An Association Of Local Businesses

January 1, 2010

I am way stoked, thrilled and jumping for joy over the launching of our Ning based social network. I had been very active on another similar business networking association here in Tucson. However, that sites owner banned me from his site. That was Thursday afternoon and by Sunday evening this site was a reality. It was only a matter of time before I launched my own site.

Heck, I was putting in two hours a day on local social networking on a site that I did not own. So now, I am putting in the effort building a network of my own. I get to call the shots here and I like that. One of the advantages for me is that I don’t have a profit motive here. While I do hope to acquire business through referrals, the site is not meant to be a profit center.

I really love what I do and I love sharing what I know. There are so many tremendous opportunities available that I want to share that with other local small business owners. In many way I see myself as a small business advocate. Buying web related services can be a daunting task and fraught with anxiety. It is very easy to make mistakes. I should know I have made my share so that my members don’t have too.

I have purchased the domain Tucson Small Business Networking Group it should hopefully be redirecting traffic to the site soon. I have very high expectations that we will be ranking high for the search Tucson networking groups very soon.

Update: The redirect is in place and working. The normal 301 however would not work Ning required what is know as a Cname to work properly. This was news to me! I must admit that I still learn something new almost everyday in this business.

You can Optimize your pages but it is based on the Page Title matching the post title which is OK. However, with WordPress I can make the Post title and Page different which I do almost every time. Ning also does allow you to choose your page description. While page description does not affect search rankings it does affect click thoughts to your website. Since about 45% of searchers will decide to visit your site based on the description this is very important. Given this is a not for profit site I can live with this.

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Posted by Urban | Filed Under Geo Targeting | 9 Comments

Geo-targeting SEO Is Catching On Slowly

April 10, 2009

Update 12/10/2009: This post is near and dear to my heart and apparently Google likes it as well. This was one of the earliest blogging posts that I have written. It really, I believe, talked about a trend that is growing and one that Google has its sights on. It will be rolling out and ad system soon that is associated with its local maps or Local Business Center. It currently is testing in limited local markets. Google knows the numbers and local searches are increasing steadily and Google wants those local internet marketing dollars.

Google is attempting to take market share from local online directories such as City Search and Superpages. Geo-targeting your website to where you all actually doing business is no longer catching on. It has arrived. I had been predicting to would take 2 -3 years to be a major factor in search. The economic, however, has forced the pace of this transition.

On a side note here: Google really has seemed to like this post a lot. The post only has a few links yet it has managed to rise in the search rankings along with the site Geo-targeting page. They have been in tandem almost from the beginning. For the longest time it was stuck at #5 and #6. They now rank #1 and #2. That has always amazed me. The search Gods at Google seem to have blessed this post, which is OK by me.

A previous update:

I originally wrote this post around May of 2008 and the post still continues to rank well for the searches Geo-targeted SEO and Geo-Targeting SEO in Google. Today while checking my search rankings I noticed that this post had a Page Rank of 1. That really surprised me as it has never had many comments or backlinks. When I see things like this it leaves me scratching my head. So here it is again.

Geo-targeting is slowly getting the attention that it deserves. We have offered this service since this business opened in 2007. Sometimes it is referred to as Local SEO as well. Our business model is based on the location of the clients local markets. Like many small business owners their market is local. So they have much less competition than those that play on a national or international stage on the Internet. It’s very easy to do well in local markets, as they are by definition niche markets.

Since search engine optimization is a numbers game and the website that uses Geo-targeting vastly improves their odds of success. Having less competition offers you the opportunity to obtain high search rankings, if you optimize your web site correctly. There is a very good chance that your competition has not optimized their websites. Almost any web site can be optimized, but usually this is the arena of the larger more serious players. When the small business owner optimizes his web site he usually goes to the front the line (think first page of Google.)

Many web designers only think of GIS software when they hear the words Geo-targeting. GIS is the acronym for geographic information software. This software is used on information and on e-commerce sites to assist you in finding information by city and it is also used to target you with local ads.

When we apply Geo-targeting in the optimization process, we are asking the search engines to index your website by a geographic area and by your products or services. So if your website provides carpet cleaning services and you live in Tucson, then we would optimize your website for carpet cleaning in Tucson. It is really that simple. Most local website forgot to say that they want indexed by there location thus they can’t be found in local market searches.

Geo-targeting is the simplest form of optimization available today. It is also the most overlooked aspect of the SEO industry. When you optimize your website by the location that you actually serve you place your business in a winning situation. You can finally use the leverage of the Internet to grow your business.

Geo-targeting has changed dramatically in the 18 months from when this was first written. The economy has forced SEO providers to look locally for work. Until recently there were only a small group of SEO who focused on Geo-targeted work. I had thought that it would take 2 or 3 years to catch on and it likely would have taken that long of not longer had the economy stayed strong.

I have never failed to get a local client high onto the first page of Google using Geo-targeting. It’s all a numbers game and when you play locally the odds are in your favor.

That’s my story… For now!

While your here I have to ask this: Is your business local? Could you use some Geo-targeting? Or maybe some new Local Internet Business?

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Posted by Urban | Filed Under Geo Targeting, Tucson SEO | 21 Comments

Get On The First Page Of Google Today… Really

December 16, 2008

Get on Google’s First Search Engine Results Page today. It sounds like some kind of SEO gimmick I know, but it’s true. Using websites like Craigslist and MSN , is where this begins and both are free. Free classified ads placed on these websites rule the SERP’s when used correctly. They allow you to post just about anything. However, they all have different rules so make sure you are aware of them.

Craigslist allows you to use HTML and place links in your ads to your website. These are great for driving some traffic to your website, but they no longer pass link juice. However, the same does not hold true for MSN. You can use Anchor text links on MSN but it has to be copied from somewhere else. You can not directly place HTML in MSN ads as you can on Craigslist.

The key to how all this works is in using your keyword phrases in your titles and in your content. A little basic SEO goes a long way here. that means using basic SEO techniques on another website to drive traffic to your website.

This works extremely well for long tail keyword phrases and for local websites. We have used this technique for the term “affordable Nike drivers.” Recently, within 2 days we were able to acquire the first 5 results on Google’s first page for this search term. This was an experiment and a learning lesson for a “would be rookie SEO” in the 206 zip code! (This is a story for another day) We did this several months ago.

This method can also be used for branding purposes. This is accomplished by placing your business name in the forefront of your ads or in your ads contents. This assures your company name will appear in the snippet field of each search result, if done properly. Since around 47% or so of searchers use the snippet when deciding whether to visit your site, you business name needs to be there. My business is XYZ and we provide XYZ.

While these methods will drive traffic to your website, the real secret here is not about the traffic that is produced. No, it was about denying my competition access to Google’s first page of results! Think about it, for every place you have taken up with your free classified ad or social media comment, you have removed your competition from the first page of search results.

Also remember this, 89% or so of web searchers never go beyond the first page of results, those sites that are bumped from the first page are now less competitive. Some have suggested to me that this is not fair. While they are entitled to there opinion I would strongly disagree.

Tucson SEO Solutions has used this technique almost daily for over a year for the search term “Tucson SEO.” There are days when we have able to acquire 9 out of 10 positions for this search. Usually, we hold down 3 or 4 positions. It just depends how busy we have become. When we placed 9 out of 10 we were not a very busy SEO company and we spent a lot of time branding ourselves.

Give it a try if you like, just please do follow the rules on each site and be ready for immediate search results. Do a search for “affordable Nike drivers” and you see what we mean.

Did we mention that we have never spent a penny on marketing on line. We have spent hundreds on printed materials for expos but never a penny on line.

What we have written about here we offer as training that is included with our website design and redesign services but in greater detail and it covers many more options.

Do you need assistance marketing your website?

We are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful links as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”

The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv) and if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv. We also use the Top Commenter plugin as well!

It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.

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Posted by Urban | Filed Under Geo Targeting | 2 Comments

What Is Search Engine Marketing In 2008?

August 27, 2008

This topic came up over at a forum that I have recently begun to use. The forum in question is the SEO Forum. Usually this is a fairly mundane topic for a forum. I responded that search engine marketing includes everything that you do away from your website to market yourself to the search engines. This is what link building is all about. You build links to lure the search engines to visit and index your website.

However, the more traditional approach too many is that SEM is all about Pay Per Click. Better known as PPC this is how the search engines makes there money. Since we are an organic results provider we don’t pay much attention to this side of the search engine community.

I have used my expanded view of SEM maybe a 100 times or so on forums and on blogs. So it seemed like a generally excepted view to me. Well, until I mentioned it on this forum. A moderator called me out and said I was wrong.

I was amazed, it was after all only an opinion. It was like I had mentioned something that could get a website banned. When called out I explained my position in detail and how I came to that conclusion. Keep in mind that this is just an opinion and that there is no regulation that has defined what search marketing should include. It will not hurt nor harm a websites search position.

That’s when things got ugly. I was wrong and that’s all there was to it. They attacked me professionally and accused me of making things difficult for the whole web marketing universe. The over reaction really caught me off guard.

I could see their reaction if I had made a suggestion that potentially could be harmful to someone’s website. Here are some links on the subject. Please check out a few definitions and decide what you accept as yours.

www.7soft.co.uk/jargon-explained-c108.html

multichannelmerchant.com/crosschannel/marketing/crosschannel_marketing_glossary/

www.searchenginegenie.com/search-engine-glossary-s.htm

www.dottraffic.com/glossary/

www.simplymedia.com.au/hints-tips-glossary-stu.html

www.i-visibility.com/terminology.htm

Thanks for consideration.

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Posted by Urban | Filed Under Geo Targeting | 4 Comments

SEO And Word Of Mouth Advertising

August 16, 2008

We attend lots and lots of business mixers here in Tucson to promote our business. At almost every event the conversation will turn to blogging and why you should provide free advice on your website. The usually refrain is “Why would you give away free advice?” Keep in mind that these are business owners that we are talking with about business.

I am still dumbfounded every time I hear that question. For, us it’s all about the golden rule in action. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Or perhaps, “What goes around comes around.” Some get it when put in this context, but many don’t. These are what we would call the “what can you do for me crowd.”
They are so blinded by their own wants or needs that they can not believe there is an actual benefit to helping others for free.

They don’t understand that an educated consumer can be your best client or your best word of mouth advertisement. I talked extensively with a business coach at one of these mixers. I had me laptop and gave him a quick SEO 101. We covered simple Page Title and Page Descriptions and the need for him to geo-target for Tucson.

I meet him two months at another large mixer where he joined our table. He explained how he implements what I had told him. He stated that he was now #3 and #4 on Google for the keywords that he had targeted. He then looked around the table of seven stating to each “This guy knows what he is talking about.”

He then turns to me, and he asks “now how do I get to #1 and #2?” I wryly replied “for that, it’s gonna cost ya.” I stated that since I gave so freely to him that it was now his job to go tell others.

I was retelling this story later in the evening when a friend from the table pointed out that that’s exactly what he did after leaving our table. She told us “I’ve been watching him every since we left our table, and he has been telling everyone about you and how you helped him and that he even pointed me out in the crowd.

I was blown away, I only jokingly suggested that we go tell others. Apparently he was so grateful that he felt obligated to tell others about “this guy who knows what he’s talking about.” You simply can’t buy this kind of endorsement.

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