An SEOs Love Story – This Is Not About SEO
January 25, 2010
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 wnat to thank a blogger named Mitch who was returned to follow this story and has left very warm and kind messages.
Free Yahoo Directory Listing
December 13, 2009
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Free Yahoo Directory Listing
Yahoo offered the first reliable and searchable directory for the internet. It helps launch the internet as we know it today. You may also know that Yahoo offers its listing service with no guarantees and it costs $299.00. That’s right you may get in if you have a good site and you may not. That is why Google gives a lot of what to a link from their directory because it was earned. However, I am not willing to spend the amount for one link.
Now, I have expressed that this is a lot of money for just one link on this blog many times. Then today I just discovered while blog commenting that Yahoo is offering a free listing in their directory. The catch is that it is in their Yahoo Canada Directory. I read about it and immediately clicked on the site. The process was straight forward and only took a few minutes to complete.
I have on idea when they will get around to listing our site, or if they will refuse it as it is based in the US. If they are listing US sites then I am confident that we will make the cut as we are listed in the DMOZ and Google directories.
Are you going to grab a listing today?
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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.
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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I Could Not Believe This One
December 8, 2009
Yesterday, I was contacted by a former client that was now representing another company. They were using some SEO guy out of New Jersey. What he told me and I later verified was amazing. Orginally, I was skeptical so I visited the sites in question and verified his story.
This SEO guy presented himself as an expert in the moving business and he has several clients in the industry that I could confirm. What he was doing was adding links on the sites that he was working on to his other clients sites. I counted a whole bunch of links that were going to other movers that should not have been there. My suggestion was to fire this guy on the spot. I just shake my head every time I see something like this. How did he imagine that he could get away with this?
Everything that I do for a client I do it as if I am doing it for this site. I have very high standards, unfortunately this industry is full of those that lack ethics. Everyday, I see scams and garbage SEO offerings, but this one really blew me away. One of the links was actually embedded in the text of a specific topic. The assumption was the link pointed to another page on this site that had more details about this topic. The link actually went to another movers site in another city.
I have a hard time understanding how someone can take money to do a job like this and then do something like this. The problem is that these things happen all to often and it destroys trust. Trust is a key component in this industry. People pay us and trust that we know what we are doing. But they also trust us with access too one of their primary business assets, their websites. This man destroyed that trust and that makes me upset. These things give even the good guys a bum rap.
That’s my story… For now!
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Trading Page Rank And Link Juice For Quality Blog Comments
August 31, 2009
It may sound crazy but Tucson SEO as a company is no fan of Page Rank. I think too much is made out of acquiring a high page rank. Our focus has always been on obtaining high search rankings. Because we compete in mostly niche markets such as local SEO and Small business SEO our site benefits more from fresh quality comments than from link juice. Therefore we are willing to give ours away…. for a price that is, and no I am not buying or selling links with this offer.
We are willing, as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing” to exchange Do Follow Anchor Text Links for useful comments. Your comments have to be relevant to the post that you are commenting on and they must be a minimum of 20 words in length to qualify.
I will not allow links to porn, gambling, or one page marketing sites. Your blog needs to have real content and not just be a collection of RSS feeds. I check these things out. If you try to game me I may use your comment but will not provide a link.
Note this: The blog has a PR of 3. However, within 20-30 days your comment moves off the home page and will likely land on a page with 0 PR. Having said that it should be noted that we are Do Follow and we use Comment and Keyword Luv.
We at Tucson SEO Solutions 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 backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
We are now using the Scratch My Back Marketing plugin. This anti spam plugin simply requires that your comment be at least 150 characters in length or it is automatically rejected. It’s that simple. We are now forcing commenters to do what we were requesting for months on this blog! The blog also uses Keyword and Comment Luv. Please note that if you only include keyword your comment may be used put you will not obtain a link!
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment. We then will provide you with an anchor text Do Follow Link. 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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Winning In Tough Economic Environments – Part 2 Size Matters
August 10, 2009
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Winning In Tough Economic Environments – Part 2 Size Matters
Today we are going to address the first two items listed in Winning In Tough Economic Environments – Part 1. They deal with the size of your content, and yes size really does matter. Let’s say your website has very little content on its pages. What kind of message does it provide for your visitor?
Here are some of the messages that you might be sending unintentionally.
Taking them for granted. A lack of content may single that you are don’t care if the visitors does business with you or not.
Shows a lack of effort – Most people subconsciously want to be sold and may be put off by your lack of effort. It signals that you really don’t care if your website ever produces business.
Can’t make a decision – Visitors need to be sold, to be given a reason to contact you or to buy your products. You need to motivate the buyer.
Shows a lack of caring – If you put so little effort into your websites content it will sow seeds of doubt. People will wonder if this is how you approach other areas of your business.
Doesn’t build confidence – You have to be able to instill confidence that you are a trusted vendor.
Assumes the sales – A lack of a sales funnel assumes that just because you have a website that visitors will want to do business with you.
Now, we will look at the website that has too much content. We are referring to the amount of text that appears on each page not the over all sites size.
Boring – Pages that have too much text can easily bore and drive the visitor away.
Readers Digest Approach (Condensed Version) – People don’t like to be over sold. If you have 800 words but it can be said in 400. Then do go with the condensed version.
Information Overload – Consider making the home page the hub to your site. It should provide snippets of information about your others pages with links to individual pages that have the specific details.
More Information Overload – My perfect example is CNN.com or just about any major news outlet. They throw in everything plus the kitchen sink at you which makes finding anything difficult. You don’t want to make the visitor have to do a lot of scrolling to find what they are looking for.
You need to ask yourself “Is my website easy to use?” If the answer is no then you definitely have a big problem. Visitors are scanners. They scan your website to see what they need. Make finding things difficult and they surely will leave.
While the site with little content underwhelms the site with too much content overwhelms the visitor. What you find acceptable and comfortable may turn large amount of visitors off. So you must attempt to find a perfect balance. The only realistically way to evaluate this is to do what is know as A/B testing of your web pages. A/B testing delivers two versions of your web page. It records the effectiveness of each page.
Our standard recommendation on your product or services pages is between 300 – 600 words per page. The idea here is to have enough text to generate an effective features and benefits presentation.
Are your web pages too sparse, boring, or too busy ?
We at Tucson SEO Solutions 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 backlinks 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.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
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It’s Time Too Try Something Different
July 22, 2009
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It’s Time Too Try Something Different!
I am always looking, as in everyday looking, for new marketing opportunities. This is how our business maintains its edge in the search results. Everyday, literally everyday, I explore new websites to see if they might benefit us and our readers. That is what was so cool about the 109 Day Link Building Program. I was constantly trying out new social media sites. Then I would later check out analytics to see if we had any ROI for the time that we spent on that site. Why, waste time on a site if it doesn’t benefit us directly.
While I was doing my daily research yesterday I discovered FeedAgg .com. I almost didn’t visit because the name seemed so strange. Luckily, I did visit and what I found is very interesting. The site acts like an RSS directory. Now, I have a very large list of similar sites put I have never been inspired to use this list. After all, I am not a fan of directories in general so why should this be any different, or so I thought.
I had left the site open last night in my browser on the oft change that it might seem more appealing today. When I returned today I finished submitting my feed. Then I clicked back onto the home page. It was there that I discovered that it offered the ability to vote on feeds. This allows me to see how the blogs stacks up against others. I liked that idea a lot.
The site is very active. I just posted our feed and started writing this post maybe 30 minutes passed and 15 new feeds have been submitted. The main page has a PR of six so Google likes it as well. The feeds are broken down by categories and they can be voted on for accuracy. I am looking forward to playing around with the site and exploring its potential. The site also lists lens for review as well. This is something that I have never seen before. It also provides links to your last 15 posts! Those links are Do Follow.
If your blog makes the cut you could end up with a PR 6 link and those are extremely difficult to come by these days!
Please visit and tell me what you think
We at Tucson SEO Solutions 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 backlinks 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.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
This is the part where I move link juice around the site and hope that someone might actually want to learn more about our local small business solutions and venture further.
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