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Tucson SEO Solutions Rules Website Internet Marketing In Tucson

July 31, 2010

Tucson SEO Solutions Rules Website

Internet Marketing In Tucson

In this business I talk to a lot of different business owner about our services. I often tell them that we are the best SEO provider in Tucson. But for many, these words mean little. So I direct them to my blog post that features my monthly rankings report. Still many people will not verify this information.

So I decided early one morning to create a video that showed me searching for the services that I provide in Tucson. The fact is that we rank both # 1 and # 2 for SEO, Internet Marketing, and Website Marketing all in Tucson. This way I can send a potential client a link to the video so that they can see for themselves. I figure that if a picture is worth a thousand words then a video might be worth much more!

I was also highly motivated to begin posting a videos on YouTube and other sites. My goal here is to start marketing my business using video. I needed to begin the learning process and it is indeed a large learning curve. I also wanted to integrate all of my social media profiles with Facebook and Twitter.

The idea here is to place Tweet on Twitter that links to my latest post. Then have that Tweet appears on as many of my social media profiles as possible. Currently, I have about 30 accounts attached to Twitter and Facebook. I am doing the something with Bebo, MySpaace, and LinkedIn. and other related sites. This is a very time consuming process. Fortunately, I have developed well over a thousand profiles over the last few years so that part has already been accomplished.

I video is very rough but you can easily see what I wanted to accomplish. I plan on redoing the video and make it a bit more polished. But it did accomplish my goals for now.

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Where People Go When Google Fails

June 18, 2010

Where People Go When Google Fails

I am an internet marketing SEO guy located in Tucson Arizona so my conversations are often about different aspects of search engine marketing. So I was a little bit amazed by what I learned today about what people do when Google does not provide them with the results that they want.

It all started at home when I had a very interesting conversation with my honey this afternoon. Geri has had a desire for Fish and Chips lately and she was searching a restaurant that served them. Now, keep in mind we live in Tucson, Arizona where fish and chips are not a staple as we are nowhere close to being near water in our desert habitat.

Her search turned out to be a bit frustrating for her. She started out using Google to do her search, but that didn’t work for her. The first page of the Google results was fruitless. So she then tried using the Microsoft search engine, Bing.

This turned out far better for her. She noted that she had to go to page two before she located a restaurant that serves fish and chips locally. I thought wow she is really serious about fish and chips to have used two different search engines..

The down side of this find was that it would require a 30 – 45 ride out to a suburban community that is on Tucson’s far North side. She was not familiar with this area as it is a relatively new development.

But there are no freeways to hop on from where we live to get there. This adventure would require the use of some of busiest surface streets in the metro area.

Geri, was surprised that Google didn’t provide her with the answer that she was looking for. I was surprised a s well but for a different reason. I was surprised that her second choice was Bing.

Shortly thereafter, I found a post that linked to an article about where people go when Google fails to meet their search requirements. The article was produce by Chitika. This company offers an internet marketing platform and does a whole lot of research about internet marketing.

The study indicated that Yahoo is by far the first choice when Google fails to produce the desired results. Yahoo is also my standard second choice as well. What got my attention is the third choice in this study was Ask.com and not Bing. I found this to be very interesting and not at all what I had expected.

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one surprised by this finding. The folks doing the research had expected that Bing would be far ahead of Ask but that wasn’t how it all played out. In the article the researchers did not speculate why they got the results that they did.

If you would like to read the study follow this link to Chikita.

What Say You?

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No I Dont Want To Help You V 2.0

June 5, 2010

No I Don’t Want To Help You V 2.0

Now, that’s a very odd tittle for me to use. I really do enjoy helping others in a variety of different ways. That is one big reason why I blog. I am an educator at heart. Having said that I have had to say no a lot in this past month. It seems that some individuals think Tucson is a good spot to set up an SEO business. That’s ok with me. I relish the new competition and when I discover my new competition I generally welcome them.

However, I have been saying no a lot lately to these new competitors. They have been calling me on the phone and emailing me quit a bit lately. They want to be direct competitors of mine and they expect that I should not only welcome them but also assist them! They all want my expertise. They want to know everything about the market for SEO in Tucson. Plus they want all of this for free! The best offer that I have received is an offer to lunch! Heck, I have even turned down a paid offers a few months back.

I was amazed when I got the first request, but the requests kept coming. I have had five such requests in the last month alone. I can not fathom where these men are coming from. They want explicit information about SEO and the market conditions in Tucson and they expect that I should be willing to meet their desires. Not only that, they expect this information for free!

All of these individuals start off their conversations by stating that they have noticed that am all over the internet for anything SEO related in Tucson. Of course this is true. But stroking me about how good I am, is only stating the obvious and doesn’t impress me. No ego boost is going to change my mind. I got burnt early on by a web developer here in Tucson and I am extremely cautious. This person hired me do to a project for him with the understanding that I would get all of his SEO work. Problem is the work never arrived. I showed him the ropes and that was it. I was now competing with the person that I had helped. As the saying goes once bitten twice shy.

My response was very straight forward “I have no interest helping someone so they can compete with me.” Everyone who contacted me seemed shocked that the Big Dog of SEO in Tucson didn’t want to assist them and I didn’t care. The economy is tough all over and I am not going to assist someone who may later take bread off my table. So I have become every good at saying No.

Now, having said that I still offer loads of free advice on this blog and off. Last week a woman called requesting assistance on getting her website noticed. The site ended up being a very generic one page website. This person had no money for my services but I spent a very long time talking and educating this woman. The site offers Christian music but the site had no real focus. I spent much of the discussion and providing resources. We also discussed defining her sites keywords. When I asked her to define what her sight was about she could not provide a good answer. I recommended that she do some research with people where she goes to fellowship with to provide her with input about the site and how they might search for her music.

Any website that wants to be successful has to define what their website was about (keywords). I pointed out that if she focused on the keywords “Christian music” that she would have a huge amount of competition. I also explained that she would need lots of time and resources to accomplish ranking well in this area. I further explained that she needed to do lots of research to find out how others would search for her music. I went on to explain that she would need to create an interactive website to be able to take better advantage of her music. I ended up recommending that she consider WordPress.

I really enjoy conversations like this. While I am not producing billable hours I am making a deposit in the bank of good will. I truly believe in what goes around comes around. This isn’t an isolated event. I will assist just about anyone who calls, who is sincere, but generally clueless about SEO and Internet Marketing. By the way, I have saved these folks tens of thousands of dollars in the process and that makes my days!

Well, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it!

This is the update to this post. In 2009 a slew of new competitors came to me for help in the process of becoming a competitor. Some thought that coffee would buy my time. Others up the stakes and offered lunch. Still one person offered to pay me. I told me that would never happen. I can report that this guy is sticking around and is slowly moving up the rankings.

There are now a few more competitors who have entered the market and they seem to have learned from my example. They have simply followed in my footsteps and they have learned well and are doing fine. There was a day when Tucson SEO Solutions held 9 out of 10 positions in the Google SERP’s for the keyword phrase Tucson SEO. That has been reduced to three for several months.

In fact one competitor managed to out rank for for Internet Marketing Tucson for about three weeks. That lead me to change several thousand links to reflect an emphasis on Internet Marketing in Tucson.

But the fact still remains I will not help you to become my competitor!

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Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

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Blogging For Links Profit And Continuing Education V 2.0

March 13, 2010

It is the opinion of Tucson SEO Solutions that the blog is the single most important marketing tool available. This business was built on the expertise gleaned from scouring the SEO/SEM blogging community. I have held this opinion when I got into this business about three years ago and I still do. However, I have abandoned using blogs for link building purposes. I did a small case study last year and I discovered that blogs were an ineffective link building method for me as my comment where getting caught up in spam filters.

The problem was I would often use something like Urban @ Arizona SEO. Because I used SEO the comments were getting automatically rejected. I discovered that most blog owners don’t look for good comments that may have accidentally got caught in spam filters. The downside of this decision was that I was no longer getting new business from blog commenting. I have compensated by using almost exclusively web 2.0 social media sites. This produces lots of visitors but no direct business has been attributed to this method so far.

If given a choice between learning SEO or internet marketing between blogs or forums I would definitely choose the blog. While forums can easy produce a bunch of low quality links quickly they are generally poor sources for acquiring useful advice. Forums do generate more traffic so it depends what you wish to accomplish, but they have not been business generators for us.

Where is the original post:

I often tell the tale of cleaning houses during the day as a one person cleaning service. Then studying SEO and SEM and for 8 to 10 hours a day every day for four straight months. I visited thousands of websites along the way. Back then (18 months ago) when we started website marketing blogging for links was easy, time consuming, but easy. That was before “No Follow’ ruined the legitimate white hat practice of blogging for links.

By the time our house cleaning website launched in January 2007 we had already gathered 1400 industry specific links. We combined the power of these links with our new knowledge of Page Titles, Page Descriptions, Geo-targeted SEO and fresh content into a winning combination.

That website landed on the first page of Google several times over within three days of launching! It has been there ever since. Its eco friendly house cleaning tips blog has been first page ranked for nearly as long.

The blog is essential for providing fresh content for the static website that the search engines crave. A blog, when used frequently can help your website obtain and maintain high search rankings.

When you blog you can:

* Still acquire links
* Learn a whole lot
* Share with others
* Profit in many different ways
* Obtain and maintain high search ranking
* And maybe even have some fun!

We simply would not be here today, if it where not for blogs. It still blows me away when I visit a website marketing business’ website that doesn’t have a blog. We believe so much in blogs that they are standard issue on every website that we build. We also include training to use the software as an effective marketing tool. We believe a blog is useless if the website owner doesn’t know how to use it effectively.

We simply will not build a website that doesn’t include a blog. We feel that strongly about the subject. It is too powerful a tool to be missing, especially if you have a static website. The blog also provides a vehicle for your customers to interact beyond normal business channels. (We no longer build websites)

Many of website visitors to a service website will be doing research for a future purchase. The blog allows you to educate this group, share your expertise, and experiences. When done properly the blog can communicate a certain level of trust.

Trust is critical when the businesses service requires coming to or entering someone’s home. Dependability, reliability, and safety are paramount to this group. Again, the blogs can easily allow you to address different segments of your customer base.

We, often refer to blogs as stages, or sounding boards. If you love what you do your blog readers will easily see this; and the bonds of trust can begin to be established.

The blog also is a great tool when used to create inbound links. That is why we are working on our own “Do Follow Blog Lists.” These lists have turned out to be a great link building tool for us. When we visit SEO/SEM sites to verify their linking status, we leave a comment, pick up a link, and let the owners know that they are on our list.

It still blows me away when I visit SEO sites that haven’t implemented a blog on the own site. But then we clearly understand, that we are here today because others blogged, we read, learned, and applied what we had learned. The rest they say is history.

The only real drawback is that blogs do require a lot of time and attention to be successful.

More to the update: One of the reason that I have been updating these old posts is due to Geri’s illness. Updating old posts is much quicker that finding new material and starting with a new post. Because her illness can rock my world for one to two weeks at a time when she hospitalized it makes blogging nearly impossible. I have found that I can rewrite 4 or 5 posts in the time that it takes me to deliver a new post. For now, I am attempting to stay a week ahead of the game by scheduling a post daily. This post places me at the 7 day threshold.

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Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

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The Different Faces Of SEO V2.0

February 22, 2010

This post The Different Faces Of SEO was published back in May of 2008. I thought it was worth another look and some editing. The original post even misspelled Different as Diferent and it took two years to discover this!

Here is the original with edits and additions in bold.

There is a myriad of ways that you can describe the process of website optimization or Search Engine Optimization as it is more commonly known. There are the standard terms SEO or Search Engine Optimization.

But since we actually provide this service professionally we are more likely try to define a smaller niche within this industry (think long tail keyword phrases here.) Like any good SEO we would rely on our keyword development skills to create long tails for our keyword phrases that define us. I have become very fond of the long tails of search.

Here are some of the many ways that we describe ourselves.

Some of us take an organic approach as in: Organic SEO or Organic Search Engine Optimization, and others will add location into the mix, as with Tucson Search Engine Optimization.

Some will describe there skills to include location:

Tucson SEO Tucson Search Engine Optimization Tucson SEO Solutions Tucson Search Marketing Tucson Internet Marketing Tucson Website Marketing

Originally we targeted only Local SEO This grew to include Local SEO Services, Local SEO Solutions, Local Internet Marketing Services, and Local Website Marketing Services and so on.

We have also grown our reach to target these Arizona cities. This includes Oro and Green Valley’s and Marana all of which are in the Tucson area. We also target the Phoenix area cities of Scottsdale, Glendale, Tempe, Chandler and Mesa successfully. And to the west and north we also target Yuma and Flagstaff.

Originally we targeted only Niche SEO. This now includes Niche Internet Marketing Services and Niche Website Marketing Services, as well as Niche Search Engine Optimization.

We targeted SEO Solutions, Business SEO, and Small Business SEO. We then added Small Business SEO Solutions and Local Small Business Solutions or Local Small Business Services.

Geo-targeted SEO and Geo-targeting SEO stayed the same as did Holistic SEO

I have not expanded on Real Estate SEO or Travel SEO.

I have often considered creating a page that targets Medical SEO

And to all of these you can exchange the SEO for Search Engine Optimization.

You could also market yourself as a positioning or ranking service. Perhaps, as someone who creates increased website traffic because that what our services do they produce more website visitors.

In fact I followed that advice and we now target things like Back Links Building Services, Quality Backlinks Building, or Backlinks Building Training just to name of few.

SEO is many things to many people but it is only about what can be done on a website. Many individuals consider link building as part of SEO as it has a direct impact on the search engine results page. However, since it is not something that is done on a website it is generally considered link building and not part of SEO. Some call link building SEM or search engine Marketing. We are part of this group.

Well, I have changed that position over the last two years. When you are providing Local SEO links are not a really big factor in many cases. However, when you are dealing with nationally competitive keywords links do play a vital role. So I no longer consider these two separate disciplines.

So as you can see there are many niches under the umbrella of SEO. You can even take Geo-targeted approach as we do and break any of these groups by location. So while it may be near impossible to break onto the first page for SEO or Search Engine Optimization it is possible to do so within any of these niches.

This was a very interesting post for me as it provided a glimpse of where I was and how I have adapted to this industry.

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Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

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Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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Kill Auto Spam Now!

December 27, 2009

This is a feature that we are implementing with each post. It is here because we provide small business SEO solutions all across Arizona, including the Chandler, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Glendale areas. We want to acknowledge and thank our friends and potential clients for their support. If you have landed here looking for our Internet marketing, SEO, or affordable website design/re-design services in Chandler, Arizona then please follow this go to our Local SEO page.

Kill Auto Spam Now!

I have written about spam many times in the past and I had read about the Bad Behavior plugin stopping auto spam. So I finally decided to give it a try a few months back and it did a great job. Spam comments were reduced from 350 a day down to about 15. I was thrilled.

Then I noticed that a new version had just come out so I happily upgraded. Well, there must have been some weakness with the upgrade because I was flooded with large volumes of spam from three specific email addresses. These folks found a weakness and were exploiting it while they could. As you might imagine I was not happy.

Then, About a week ago I had read about this great WP blog and web host. I checked out the site and was very impressed so much so that I hired him to secure our site. The gentleman’s name is John of WpBlog Host. We needed a security upgrades since the site had been recently hacked. So this so an easy decision for us, especially since our developer seemed to lack interest in securing the blog. He’s a great guy but he is not a WP expert.

As it turns out Bad Behavior was experiencing some of its own bad behavior and would not work. John replaced it with another program called Tan Tan Noodles. Now, I had read some great reviews on this plugin.Yet, I didn’t take it seriously because of its name. Wow, what a mistake that was.

This plugin has reduced spam to zero! That’s right zero auto spam! I haven’t seen any spam during the entire week that it has been on the blog. Yes, it’s that good. Now, if you want to lock down the security of your blog I would recommend using John.

I have been blogging for over two years and I had learned to loathe auto spam. Now, that the spam is gone I find that I am experiencing spam withdrawals. If you think about it, it make sense, For over two years part of my day involved cleaning out the spam filter and cursing to myself as I did it. That part of my day is gone.

It a very strange feeling to check for spam and not to find any. I had got so accustomed to spam that it had become part of my daily routine. It sounds so funny to say I’m going through spam withdrawals, but I am.

As for the security upgrades I am reluctant to go into specific details of how we are protecting WordPress as I don’t want hackers to be able to know what we have done and then exploit it. What I can say is that he removed all references to WP in our files and added some plugins. What he essentially accomplished was to add several layers of protection for our website.

What really separates John from the crowd is that he made a video of what he did and how he did it while he was doing it on my site. He didn’t settle for a generic demo video. This video was unique to your website.

He does all of this for about $50.00. When I explained everything that we did to my web developer he asked “How does he make any money?” I stated that I believe he does it not so much for the money but for the love of blogging and more specifically for his passion for WordPress. My developer is a billable hour’s kind of guy and he just didn’t get the passion part.

I want to also again thank Barbara Swafford of Blogging Without A Blog for bringing John to my attention. John also offers hosting and his site has lots of great tutorials. So please do go visit John and Barbara blogs, leave some great comments, and tell me that we sent you there.

I really do enjoy finding great resources and sharing them with you, my readers.

Isn’t it time that you quit talking about blog security and do something Now!

Here’s some other valuable resources:

Would you like to download the Scratch My Back Marketing anti spam plugin? Then go here.

Would you like to learn more about the Scratch My Back Marketing (not the plugin?) Then go here.

Too learn more about our services please check out these links:

Our Arizona Services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson – Phoenix

Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

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SEO Doesn’t Take Forever Or At Least Not For Me!

October 30, 2009

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.

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Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

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Can You Meet Or Exceed These Search Results – October 2009

October 11, 2009

Recently, I had written about the fact that I have abandoned blogging for links to acquire higher search rankings. The reason was very simple spam filters. Many blogs have their spam filters set to catch any comment that includes the acronym SEO. I discovered that over half of my comments were ending up in the spam filters and never got published. These were not spammy comments. No, they adhered to the Scratch My Back Marketing philosophy thus they were useful comments.

About the time that I abandoned using blog to gain high search engine rankings I started reporting how well this site ranked for its targeted keyword phrases. At that time the site ranked on the first page of Google for 29 different phrases. Today, a just a few months later that number has grown to 63. Yes, that’s right we rank on the first page of Google for 63 Keyword phrases.

Update 10/12/2009 I can add another keyword phrase today I discovered that the site is ranking # 2 for Backlink Building Service. I just decided to go after this phrase last week. This page almost immediately went to the # 7 position. So I made a concerted effort and the targeted page is ranking # 2. I have also acquired the attention of one of the biggest players in SEO, Orange soda. I noticed today that they are now using AdWords advertising in my marketing to compete directly with me. I have been outranking them or very close to for several nation searches. More on this later.

All of these phrases are related directly to services that we offer in the SEO and internet marketing arenas. This trend continues this month. We saw improvement in our search rankings for 23 keyword phrases. The most significant move was for me was the phrase Geo-targeting SEO. We went from ranking both # 6 and # 7 to # 1 and # 2. Now, this is not a very competitive but it is one of our primary services. I had made a point of going after this phrase and it worked!

Now, know this that these results fluctuate often. These results are likely to move throughout the day. These swings can usually be attributed to what data center that you land at. Today, when I searched for Local SEO that page was ranking at # 16. Yesterday, it was ranking # 6. Out of all the keyword phrases that I monitor this one moves the most.

The same is true for the search Niche SEO. For the last three weeks this site ranked both # 1 and # 2. Today, it ranks # 6 and # 7. It may change again later today. When I started this post we ranked # 19 for the search Local Internet Marketing Services. I just checked it and our # 1 position has been restored! The big amazing to me is that we rank both # 1 and 2 for Local Website Marketing Services out of 476 Million results!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow.

Some of these searches have very low usage volumes, but that are services that we provide. The site ranks well for affordable link building services and for affordable link building. My goal is to eventually rank well for link building or link building services. These will not be easy, as my competition is very good at link building and many have had many years to build links.

What gives me encouragement is this. I have noticed once a company gains high search rankings there business increases and this is a good thing. They then often scale back on what got them there. I struggle with this as well. I have used this down economy to grab market share. It is very easy to loose sight of what allowed you to be successful in the first place. I from time to time loose sight of the importance of blogging. Like link building, blogging is time intensive.

No the down side of things the site lost ground for three searches. However, nine other phrases appeared on the first page of the Google results and that’s a very good thing!

Update 10/12/2009 – I just discovered that we rank # 3 for Small Business SEO Services. What surprises me here is that we rank ahead of SEOmoz, an SEO authority site. Wow! That’s right up there with occasionally out ranking Orange Soda, another industry leader.

These results were pulled 10/01/2009 from Google

So here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks in our home market:

Tucson SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Tucson Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 1 and # 2

Internet Marketing Tucson # 1

So here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks across Arizona:

Arizona SEO we rank # 5

Arizona SEO Services we rank # 4

Arizona SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Internet Marketing Services Phoenix we rank # 6

Local Internet Marketing Phoenix we rank both #1 and # 2

Local SEO Phoenix ranks both # 1 and # 2

Local Website Marketing Phoenix we rank both #1 and # 2

Phoenix Search Engine Optimization both # 6 and # 7

Phoenix SEO we rank # 5

Scottsdale SEO we rank # 7

Flagstaff SEO we rank both # 2 and # 3

Website Marketing Services Phoenix we rank both # 4 and # 5

Yuma SEO we rank both # 2 and # 3

So here is the latest on how Tucson SEO Solutions ranks nationally:

Affordable Link Building we rank # 1

Affordable Link Building Services we rank # 1

Affordable Link Building Training we rank # 1

Affordable Link Building Solutions we rank # 1

Business Search Engine Optimization Solutions we rank # 2

Business SEO Services we rank # 1

Business SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Comprehensive Website Audit we rank # 1

Comprehensive Website Review we rank # 1

Detailed Website Audit we rank # 1

Detailed Website Review we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Services we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Solutions we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Training we rank # 1

Geo-targeted SEO we rank # 1

Geo-targeting SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Holistic SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Holistic Search Engine Optimization we rank # 2

Local Business SEO we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Internet Marketing Services we rank # 1

Local internet Marketing Solutions we rank # 1

Local SEO we are not currently on the first page

Local SEO Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Small Business SEO we rank # 2

Local Small Business SEO Services we rank both # 1 and # 2

Local Small Business SEO Solutions both # 1and # 2

Local Website Marketing Services we rank both # 1 and # 2 out of 476 Million results… Wow!

Ethical Link Building we rank # 3

Ethical Link Building Services we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Solutions we rank # 1

Ethical Link Building Training we rank # 1

Local Website Marketing # 10

Local Website Marketing Services we rank both # 3 and # 4

Local Website Marketing Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche SEO we rank we rank both # 6 and # 7

Niche SEO Services we rank # 1 and # 2

Niche SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Niche Search Engine Optimization we rank both # 1 and # 2

SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Small Business SEO Solutions we rank both # 1 and # 2

Small Business SEO Services we rank # 3

Do Follow Lists we rank # 1 out of 265 Million results.

Do Follow Blogs we rank # 5 out of 190 Million results.

Do Follow Blog List we rank # 1 out of 164 Million results.

Do Follow Forums we rank # 7 out of 194 Million.

Do Follow Forum Lists # 1 out of 135 Million results.

Our Arizona Services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson – Phoenix

Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

Posted by Urban | Filed Under Arizona SEO | 5 Comments

Ning Becomes More No Follow What A Bummer

October 10, 2009

I have been a very big fan of Ning.com. If you don’t know what Ning is that generally means that you are a new reader of this Blog. I will now, get you up to speed. Ning is a social media platform similar to FaceBook. Ning allows anyone to create their own social networking group at no cost. All you need is an email account and some time.

From January to July of this year I reviewed social media sites in a program that I called the 109 Day Link Building Explosion. During this program I featured around 50 or so Ning sites. Ning has been around for about 5 years. It currently has about 1.2 Million networks on its servers. However, only about 200,000 are actually active. I control 7 of these networks myself that are currently considered inactive and 2 that are definitely active.

One of the main reasons why I have appreciated Ning was because up until a week or ago these network profiles were Do Follow. That was recently taken away. I took a bog hit link wise by this action. I am a member of 125 these networks. I visited each one monthly and updated my profile and would leave a blog post. I use a formal business signature with each post. In the tag line, I always include a few links. No one seems to mind as these posts provide useful intelligent information.

Ning has not yet, made links in blog and discussion posts No Follow, but it could happen. Each of my profiles text boxes included links so eventually I may see some slippage in how well our keyword phrases rank. That is unless I have the time to replace these lost links. It will be very interesting for me when I do my month to month report what effect this Ning change will mean.

This also serves as a reminder again not to have too many eggs in one basket.

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Our Arizona Services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson – Phoenix

Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services:

Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson Phoenix

Geo-Targeted Geo-targeted SEO – Search Engine Optimization Services

Affordable Quality Ethical Links – BackLinks Building Services Training

Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.

Posted by Urban | Filed Under Arizona SEO | 7 Comments

When Purchasing Geo-targeting SEO Solutions Get Verifable Results

February 9, 2009

Whenever you are looking to choose an SEO provider there is one big, huge, and enormous thing that we believe that you should take into consideration. Since SEO providers basic service is designed to land your website onto the first page of results, you should verify that their website is ranked well. By ranking well, I am referring to the first page of the Google search results.

So we challenge you to ask all of your potential vendors if they rank on the first page of Google for searches that include SEO in the keyword phrase. How can you expect a company to land your website on the first page of Google if they can’t get themselves there?

With this in mind we checked out some of the keyword phrases that we target and this is what we found today on Google.

Tucson SEO Solutions ranks # 1 for the following searches:

Niche SEO

Geo-targeting SEO Solutions

Small Business SEO Solutions

Local Business SEO Solutions

Local SEO Solutions

Tucson SEO Solutions ranks in the top 5 for these searches.

SEO Solutions

Business SEO Solutions

Geo-targeted SEO

We also rank on the first page of Google for the following searches:

Local SEO

Do Follow Forum List

Do Follow List – We are especially proud of this one since it produces 142 million results.

We also hold the # 1 position in Google in all nine local markets where we have website presence. That includes Tucson, Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, and Glendale, Arizona. We also rank #1 in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, California along with Silicon Valley.

Now, if you check these keyword phrases, you will likely find that your results will vary somewhat and that is due to many factors. The results fluctuate throughout the day.

We have provided you verifiable results that we do what we say and say what we do.

We understand Local Geo-targeted SEO and are ready to provide your business with the affordable small business SEO solutions that you require.

Are you ready to work with an SEO company that understands Local SEO?

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Our Arizona Services:

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Local SEO Internet Marketing Services Tucson – Phoenix

Yuma – Flagstaff Arizona SEO -Internet Marketing Services

Scottsdale SEO – Glendale internet Website Marketing Services

Marana – Sierra Vista – Green & Oro Valley SEO – Internet Marketing Services

Nationally we offer the following services: