SEO Done As Search In Tucson
December 19, 2011
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This blog covers local SEO which is dominated by Google, Google Places and the need for citations. The blog also covers just about any thing related to Google search results and related topics. I hope that you might glean some useful resources while you are here.
SEO Done As Search In Tucson
I seldom do a keyword ranking search for just SEO from a Tucson ip address. I know that I usually rank in the 4th or 4th position. I am usually behind major SEO sites, Wikipedia, or Google. But I am always the first local SEO provider mentioned the the search results from Tucson.
Today, I did a search for SEO and I discovered that the site is ranking # 2 from a Tucson area ip. The only site that ranks ahead off me is Wikipedia. I don’t know when this happened. But I had noticed that more people were finding my site by using just SEO.
This represents a huge change for the site. Prior to Google rolling out Places Search or Blended Search in 10/2010 no one ever found my site using just SEO. That’s because I was ranking on page 40 or something like that. But blended search mixed local results with national results thus I was now being found by more people in Tucson. Still ranking behind these big boys of SEO wasn’t providing much of a boost. But it was generating some website traffic so I was very happy.
Now, I am even more happy to see that I’m ranking # 2. And this likely is what was been producing more business inquiries. For me December has always been a dead month for new business leads. But that has changed this year. I actually have been pleasantly surprised by all of the new business leads. The hardest part of all of this is being able to get a hold of those I want to follow up with during the holiday season.
Here is a screen shot of what I found today.
I will gladly accept ranking # 2 to SEO for Tucson based searchers in Google. Now I know why I have seen an increase in SEO inquiries…. YEA!
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Google’s Google Places Page And Descriptive Terms
September 2, 2011
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Google’s Google Places Page And Descriptive Terms
Sometimes corporations do the weirdest things that leave ya” scratching your head. Some times it evolves wasting billions of dollars on questionable purchases of other businesses. And sometimes they create products that serve on real purpose or that were rolled out way to soon, or both.
Let take for instance, Cisco’s purchase of the Flip videos camera for about $590 million. Now, that was back in the Spring of 2009. Then in the spring of 2011 they shuttered the company. They likely took it as a write down and that was that. In the process cutting almost 600 jobs. They never saw that the smart phone was replacing the need for Flip like devices.
Or maybe I should examine HP for its $1.2 Billion purchase of Palm and its web OS software. This software was the engine that ran it’s new iPad killer called Touch. Touch is a tablet meant to compete with the iPad from Apple. It was rolled out about three months ago with an iPad like price. Soon that price was dropped to $399.00 Then recently HP said it was closing down the touch, as in it would no longer be manufacturing the product.
HP began to blow the remaining stock for $99.oo Now, the tablet that cost $309.00 to manufacture has a hit. So much so, that HP decided to rev up the production again. Yep, there losing over $200.00 per unit and they decided to make some more. Is this crazy or what? And the are still planning on walking away from their investment, which with advertising make it about a $1.5 Billion loss.
Since I have been discussing some really bad tech businesses decisions you likely know where this one is going. You likely are starting to think about Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility for about $13 Billion. But that’s not where this post is going. Bur the boneheaded Google topic that I want
But I said this article was about Google and more specifically about its home office’s Places listing and the Descriptive Terms that appear in its listing. This is a screen shot Google’s Mountain View Places page.
It might be hard to see Google’s Places page Descriptive Terms so lets take a closer look.
That’s right it say’s “western union” “quick cash” “proceedings of” “account” and “e-mail.” Of these only e-mail and account could be readily associated with Google. Just like Cisco and HP, Google appears to have made a rushed decision with the introduction of Descriptive Terms. If Google’s algorithm for this feature can not accurately describe itself how will it ever work on other Places pages?
It makes ya” wonder what’s going on with Google and these other tech companies. How can all these brilliant minds make so many bad decisions? As for Google, this is yet another example of many problems that Google is experiencing with its Places pages. It also isn’t very encouraging when Google’s can’t even describe its own business very well with this feature!
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# 4 Out Of 156 Million V 2.0
May 23, 2011
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This blog covers local SEO which is dominated by Google, Google Places and the need for citations. The blog also covers just about any thing related to Google search results and related topics. I hope that you might glean some useful resources while you are here.
# 4 Out Of 156 Million V 2.0
Lately, I have been going over my previous posts and refreshing the ones that I really liked. I particularly liked this post as I believe that it goes a long way to debunk the Google Sandbox theory. When I started this blog I used Do Follow Lists to promote the blog and site.
In a very short amount of time we were able to take our Do Follow Lists onto the first page of Google. While the content of that post (the lists) have been removed the post still rank very well, as in # 1 in the Google SERP’s. Not very many blog post are still ranking on the first page of Google almost two years later. If you know your market well and are willing to put in the effort you can rank well, and very quickly, in most markets.
The market for the keyword phrase Do Follow List and Do Follow Blog List has become much more competitive since then. When I first went after this phrase there were a lot of web pages that included these words on their page, as in 156 Million. However, not many of these where doing so for commercial purposes. That has changed dramatically since then with hundreds of sites selling some kind of Do Follow product. I seriously doubt that we would have this rapid success today. Often success in search and in life is all about timing.
Here is the original post # 4 Out Of 156 Million:
Our SEO practice is all about developing and exploiting niche opportunities. Since SEO is basically a numbers game, you want to target your keyword phrases that are actually being used, but that have only a few competitors. It comes down to the fewer competitors the better.
So while we do well at landing this website on the first page of results for SEO related searches, these would not be considered competitive. That’s the whole purpose of what we are trying to achieve.
So today, I read a question on a forum that I had never visited before. It asked “what is the most competitive keyword that you have ranked for?” I knew that we ranked high for the search “Do Follow List” but I never pay any attention to how many results came up on a Google search for this term. Well, the answer is that we are #4 out of 156 Million search results… Wow!
All of those ahead of us have had 8 months to a year or more advance lead on us. So to say that we are pleased would be an understatement. I am still a little bit in the clouds over this revelation.
We were able to accomplish this because we put in over 300 hours developing the list and marketing it effectively. The whole project was created as linkbait for the relaunching of our website and it has worked very well.
05/15/2011: The Do Follow List would eventually end up ranking extremely well for over 2 years. Most of that time it ranked # 1. It continued to rank well for a year and a half after the contents had been removed due to spam. As it turned out all of these spam comment about a list that no longer existed keep the post ranking well. But I finally got tired of this spam traffic and I removed all 10 Do Follow lists.
This caused a 50% drop to the website and it eliminated most spam comments. That post still is one of the most visited pages on the site even thou it no longer exists. It now redirects to the blogs main page!
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Keeping Up With Page Rank
May 6, 2011
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Keeping Up With Page Rank
This post was originally posted back in 2009. This site has been closed.
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!
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Does Your Service Website Meet The “Needs Factor”
April 21, 2011
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Does Your Service Website Meet The “Needs Factor”
This was first posted back in 2008.
It is fair to say that many buyers of website services and many designers don’t understand that service website visitors are “Need Buyers.” They as a group do not want to be provided with any “Wow Factor” from your website.
Believe me, when my vehicles AC wet out on April 14th in Tucson, I wasn’t buying “Wow” when I did my Google search for “auto AC repair Tucson.” I needed my AC fixed, as of yesterday. I was a “Needs Buyer.”
All I cared about was, could you solve my problem (Need) today? (Benefit) During my Google search if I clicked towards your website and it loaded slow because of flash on the site I would just click away.
If you didn’t make it easy for me to determine that you could solve my problem I would also leave. It’s fair to say that most service purchases are accompanied with a fair amount of stress. This is especially true for purchasing for buying website services. The consumer generally isn’t sure what is best for their needs.
Our websites are designed to clearly define what your website is offering. We also define the benefit for the consumer. The benefit here is that you are the business that best can fulfill their needs. We also assist you in providing what is known as “a call to action.” This is the part where you actually ask for their business.
The service business website needs to create leads and appointments, so there primary goal is to create an inquiry by email and preferably by phone. If the designer that you are choosing doesn’t understand how to build a website for the ‘Needs buyer” you should probably find one that does.
Think about it…. If your homes roof is leaking or your car will not start, do you really care about a websites look and feel? No, you want to know this, “Can you solve my problem, and now?
Does your website offer solutions?
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