Pre-Launch Website Link Building: You Need This
June 23, 2008
Just about anyone and everyone who has anything to do with Internet marketing knows that Google’s algorithm is based on links. These links are commonly known as backlinks. The more quality relevant links that your website has the better that it will do in the search engine rankings.
So why, wait until your website is built to start building links? Link building for many website owners is an after thought. Heck, let’s be real honest the first time most website owners learn about links is about three months after their website was been launched.
They finally realize that the have little or no website traffic and start asking questions. Their website designer likely didn’t understand search engine optimization so the website was not optimized. So the designer rightly suggests that you need to start on a link building program. Better late than never.
The problem here is that this link building effort has begun about 6 months too late. The website design process can easily stretch into 3 months and if you don’t understand the need to build links you can be missing an opportunity for a quick start.
You need to build inbound or backlinks simply because Google’s algorithm is based on the website inter linking relationship. So the earlier you start the better. Our first website was obtained through barter. So the designer took his good old time building the website.
The whole process finally was completed after four months. Once we had purchased our domain we started building links slowly everyday. When the website launched we had already build up 1400 links to our website. The website rocketed to the first page almost overnight.
I must note that we were not targeting a very competitive field. We targeted house cleaning services and cleaning services in Tucson, but it was our market and we were on the first page. If you are new to the link building process, this pre-launch period will provide you with time to learn the ropes. Believe me there is a lot to learn. Even if your designer does optimize your website you still need to build links. That is if you want search engine traffic from Google.
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An SEO Gets Shopped
June 11, 2008
If you have been any business long enough a competitor will give you a ring and try to shop you. They call and want to know what you charge. This is especially true if your product or service price is not available on your website. The trick here is to determine who is a real potential client and who is a competitor trying to acquire your pricing structure.
I don’t have a problem with this at all. I have done this hundreds of times over the decades. When someone calls I’m a very good judge of who is real and who is not. If someone starts of by asking a whole bunch of questions without identifying themselves first, you can almost be certain that you are being shopped.
If they pause or stumble when you ask these questions you know you’re being shopped.
• What’s the domain name?
• What’s your business?
• What do you want your website visitor to do on your website?
• What’s your target market?
If the visitor hesitates on any of these questions you can be sure that your time is being wasted by a shopper. However, those who are skilled shoppers may be prepared for these questions. They are a little harder to catch. After all I role play the call many times before I shop a business.
If someone seems more interested in pricing then anything else in the conversation I explain that everything starts with a website review. I then ask them to email me from their website to get the ball rolling. If they are a serious inquiry they will email while you’re talking. If they make excuses, at this point, you know this is a wasted call and I quickly end the call. If they ask you why this is needed you can state its company policy to assure that this is a genuine sales call.
I mention this because I got shopped today by someone from The San Francisco Bay area code. We have just started targeting the area in advance of our new website launch. So I have been expecting these types of calls.
The caller jumped right into the deep end of the pool from the get go. They asked if we did page titles, page descriptions, Meta tags, and ALT tags and what we charged. Well, nothing like cutting to the chase. What they didn’t realize is that real customers don’t talk like that. They just want to acquire search traffic and had read that SEO is the way to go. They don’t generally understand how we do what we do.
Since, I was being shopped by an inexperienced young shopper I thought I would have a little fun. It started with the basic questions I mentioned previously, and of course they didn’t have a website. They went on to explain that he wanted to market to the 48 states and that he was going to be selling computer parts.
Well, our website is very clear that we don’t provide service for highly competitive markets that are national. I went on to explain that if his market was local we would gladly consider him as a client. I further explained that we only take on clients that when know going in can benefit greatly from our services.
Trying to take a website that sells computer parts nationally to the first page of Google is not a challenge that we will undertake. While I noted that it can be accomplished given enough time and money but that it was not anything that we wanted to be involved with. Its not are market.
He became very defensive and started talking SEO slang and started to explain how it could be accomplished. I thought this guy is so clueless that he is being played and he doesn’t even know it. Then he started talking about Page Rank. I have never had a client or potential client that knows what Page Rank is. Now this person is talking straight-up SEO shop talk.
Since I had flushed him out the conversation needed to end. I politely ended the conversation by informing him that we don’t work on these kinds of sites and moved on.
The moral of the story is if you’re going to shop someone get the story straight first and don’t sound like you know so much that you really don’t need my help. If this caller knew about page titles, Meta tags, page descriptions, and ALT tags then why would they need me?
Do Follow List Of Lists And Now Forums
June 8, 2008
We know that we are a little late to the game of providing our “Do Follow List.” We just thought a fresh list would help. We have been taking a look at many of the list that were produced in October 2007 and found that they were out of date. Many blogs listed as “Do Follow” are now “no Follow.” We also found that many lists included Blogger blogs that do not pass link juice to a website. Your assistance in keeping these lists accurate will be appreciated.
Also if you are going to use this list please take the time to leave a comment. We have put in over 260 hours of work on the project and we would like to hear from you. Please consider writing about this effort and linking to our website… Thanks so very much!
Also when visiting these blogs please add to the conversations with something a little more substantial then “nice blog.”
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SEO/SEM “Do Follow” Blogs
406 Not Acceptable - http://www.406notacceptable.com
A Better Website http://better-website.officebinder.com
Affordable Internet Marketing - http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com
Alister Cameron - http://www.alistercameron.com
A List SEO - http://www.alistseo.com
Amplify-Interactive http://www.amplify-interactive.com/blog
Antigua Web Solutions - http://antiguawebsolutions.com/myblog
AskaX World - http://askax.net
Ask Owen - http://askowen.info/index.php
Attraction Biz - http://attractionbiz.com
Big Oak Inc - http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog
Big Foot Web Marketing - http://www.bigfootwebmarketing.com *
Biznology - http://www.mikemoran.com/biznology/blog
Blograters – http://blograters.com
Blog Munch - http://blogmunch.com
Blizzard Internet Marketing - http://newsletter.blizzardinternet.com
Blogs and bloggers - http://blogs.qoody.net
Blue Hat SEO - http://www.bluehatseo.com
BP Wrap - http://blog.cre8asite.net/bwelford
Bull3t’s blog - http://blog.bull3t.me.uk
Can I make big money online - http://www.canimakebigmoneyonline.com
Communityspark - http://www.communityspark.com
Computer Chit Chat - http://www.computerchitchat.com
Compton SEO – http://www.comptonsolutions.com
Daily SEO – http://www.dailyseo.org
David Leonhardt’s SEO Marketing - http://www.seo-writer.com/blog
E Comm Tips - http://www.ecommtips.com
E Marketing Performance - http://www.emarketingperformance.com
E-MoneyMarketing - http://emoneymarketing.com
Essentral - http://essentral.quaboo.com
Geeky Speaky- http://www.GeekySpeaky.com
Getblogged.info - http://getblogged.info
Getting Started Online Today - http://www.getstartedtodayonline.com
Internet Marketing Sucks - http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog
Its Write Now - http://www.itswritenow.com *
Joe Dolson - http://www.joedolson.com
John Cow - http://www.johncow.com
Learning SEO Basics http://learningseobasics.com *
Life Is Colorful - http://www.lifeiscolourful.com
Local SEO Guide http://www.localseoguide.com
Manilla Freelancer - http://www.melovillareal.com
Marketing Blagger - http://www.marketingblagger.com
Me and My Drum - http://www.meandmydrum.com *
Me Myself And I - http://www.memyselfandiblog.com *
More Than Scratches The Surface – http://www.scratch99.com
My Online World - http://pixelheadonline.com/blog/index.php
My SEO Blog .Net - http://myseoblog.net
Nicholas M Ong - http://nicholasmong.com *
Nusuni.com - http://www.nusuni.com/blog
O’Flaherty - http://blog.oflaherty.dk
Online Public Relations - http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com
Our Monmouth Blog - http://ourmonmouthblog.com *
Out Of My Gord http://outofmygord.com
Page Traffic Blog - http://www.pagetrafficblog.com/
Pajama Professional http://pajamaprofessional.com *
Performancing - http://performancing.com
Pimp My Page Rank - http://pimpmypagerank.com
Pingable =- http://www.pingable.org *
Post-Click Marketing - http://blog.postclickmarketing.com
Randa Clay Designs - http://randaclay.com
Really Smart Guy - http://fuery.com
Reviewer Of Sites - http://www.reviewerofsites.com
Riggie Freyer’s - http://www.freyer.com *
Ryan Shamus.com - http://ryanshamus.com/blog
Sandossu - http://www.sandossu.com
Schwoit.com - http://schwoit.com *
Screenwrek - http://gesterling.wordpress.com
Search Any Way - http://blog.searchanyway.com
Search Engine Marketing - http://www.darin.cc
Search Engine People - http://www.searchenginepeople.com
Search Rank – http://www.searchrank.com/blog
SEO 101 - http://podcast.neo1seo.com
SEO By The Sea - http://www.seobythesea.com
SEO Copy Writing - http://www.seocopywriting.com
SEO Noobs - http://seonoobs.com *
SEO Woman - http://www.seowoman.com
Site Logic Marketing - http://www.sitelogicmarketing.com
Small Business SEM - http://www.smallbusinesssem.com
Social Marketing - http://www.michellemacphearson.com
Sugarrae - http://www.sugarrae.com
The Angry Walrus – http://www.theangrywalrus.com/blog *
The Lonely Marketer - http://www.lonelymarketer.com
The PPC Book - http://theppcbook.com
The Red Stabler Chronicles - http://redstaplerchronicles.com *
To Split An Atom - http://howtosplitanatom.com
Twenty Steps – http://www.twentysteps.com
Your Website Profit- http://blog.yourwebsiteprofit.info *
Webatlantis - http://webatlantis.org *
Webicy Blog - http://blog.webicy.com
WYPOV.com - http://www.wypov.com *
Animals
Tip Tail - http://tiptail.com
Blogging Stuff
Fresh Blogger - http://freshblogger.com
Pure Blogging - http://www.pureblogging.com
Abundance Highway - http://www.abundancehighway.com
Business
Big Bright Bulb - http://bigbrightbulb.com *
Dawud Miracle - http://dmiracle.com
E Money Marketing - http://emoneymarketing.com
Foximus - http://www.foximus.com
Home Based Business - http://www.bestrealincome.com
Leveraging Ideas - http://www.leveragingideas.com
Lonely Marketer - http://www.lonelymarketer.com
Rotten Bananas - http://www.rottenbananas.com
Simon Chapples - http://marketingasolicitor.com
Trade Macro - http://trademacro.com
Woman Start Your Business Now - http://womanstartyourbusinessnow.com
Entertainment
Brilliant Cheers - http://www.brilliantcheers.co.uk
Celebrity Scoop - http://feverishthoughts.com/celebrity
Don’t Fear The Truth.com - http://dontfearthetruth.com
Layercake.net - http://www.layercake.net
Ja Kel - http://jakeldaily.com
JonesPC - http://www.jonespc.com
Popcorn Ninja- http://www.popcornninja.com
Simon Chapples Blog That Bites - http://marketingasolicitor.com
Talk,Don’t Run- http://www.talkdontrun.org
Things By Mike - http://thingsbymike.com *
Rambling Of A Long Time Procrastinator - http://stirlyn.co.uk
Food – Cooking
Blog Chef - http://blogchef.net
By The Sea - http://hterry.com
Bits Of Dust - http://www.bitsofdust.com
Cooking Recipes And Kitchen Tools - http://tagskitchen.com
Mom Cooks - http://momcooks.net *
Family
Harmony In The Family - http://blog.audiogettingrichscience.com
Mom Gadget- http://momgadget.com
Mom Reviews - http://momreviews.net*
Mommy Knows - http://mommyknows.com *
P J Mommy- http://pjmommy.com
Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind - http://afrogtokiss.net
Tamara’s Tip On Parenting and Business - http://www.tamara-wilson.com *
Vegan Moma - http://veganmomma.com/blog *
Fashion
Fashion Fotos - http://www.fashionfotos.com
Financial
Advanced Personnel Finance - http://advancedpersonalfinance.com
Beingfrugal.net - http://www.beingfrugal.net
Cash Money Life - http://cashmoneylife.com
Debt Free Revolution - http://www.debtfree-revolution.com
Financial Dominance - http://www.financialdominance.com
Gathering Little By Little - http://www.gatherlittlebylittle.com
Irregular Payments - http://irregularpayments.com
I’ve Already Paid For This Twice - http://www.paidtwice.com
Lazy Man And Money - http://www.lazymanandmoney.com
No Credit Needed - http://www.ncnblog.com
Plonkee Money - http://www.ncnblog.com
Poorer Than You - http://poorerthanyou.com
Punny Money - http://www.punny.org
The Digerati Life - http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php
The Frugal Law Student - http://www.frugallawstudent.com
Gardening & Outdoor Decorating
020114 Best House On The Block- http://www.020114.org
Magical Rose Garden - http://www.magicalrosegarden.com
Health & Beauty
Advance Wellness Solutions - http://advancedwellnesssolutions.com
Body Fitness Info - http://www.bodyfitnessinfo.com/blog
Chris Hoyte - http://chrishoyt.com
Doc1Vitamins - http://www.doc1vitamins.com/blog
Fat Lady Singz - http://fatladysingz.com
How To Wake Up Early - http://www.howtowakeupearly.com
Living Life Abundantly - http://marenda.biz
Self Hypnosis Program- http://selfhypnosisprogram.com
Speed Endurance - http://speedendurance.com
Today Is That Day- http://www.todayisthatday.com/blog/
To Your Health! - http://www.seroweb.org
Visualized feel Abundance - http://secretofunlimitedprosperity.com
Woman Tribune - http://womantribune.com *
Home Improvement
Ken Hoyt Style - http://kenhoytstyle.com/blog
Yhumc Young Hip & Urban - http://www.yhumc.org
House Cleaning Tips
Geeky Housewife - http://www.geekyhousewife.com
House Cleaning - http://housecleaning.busymomma.com
Broomhuggers - http://broomhuggers.com
It’s Crazy delicious - http://www.itscrazydelicious.com
Mrs.Clean’s House Cleaning Specialist - http://www.mrscleannw.com/forum
Insurance
Delta Fund - http://www.deltafund.org
Military
Aloha Team - http://alohateam.com *
Miscellaneous
A Mothers Horizon - http://www.arcskyline.com *
Abundance Highway - http://www.abundancehighway.com *
Accepted To College - http://acceptedtocollege.com/blog
Army Mom New Jersey - http://armymomnj.name *
Big Pond- http://www.chatbugkaren.com *
Bpmonaco - http://bpmonaco.com
Brian Pratt - http://www.brianpratt.net
Cant Coach That - http://www.cantcoachthat.com
Chilli- http://chilliphilosophy.com
Crayon Writer - http://crayonwriter.com *
Dear Dr.MOZ - http://www.deardrmoz.com
Dew Knight - http://www.dewknight.com
Don’t Fear The Truth- http://dontfearthetruth.com
EricSocia - http://ericsocia.net *
Footprints On The Moon - http://www.footprintsonthemoon.com
Her Family Blog - http://her-family-blog.com
How To Split An Atom - http://howtosplitanatom.com
Hybrid Jungle - http://www.hybridjungle.net
Interesting Observations - http://fresh-perspectives.net *
Just Not Martha - http://www.justnotmartha.com *
L A Snark - http://www.lasnark.com
Last Blogger - http://lastblogger.com
Law Of Attraction - http://attractingyourgoals.com
Life In The Fast Lane - http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca
Life Is Risky - http://lifeisrisky.com *
Live the great life You Desire - http://daveolson.ca
Macuha - http://www.macuha.com
Marisa’s Dandelion Patch - http://www.mydandelionpatch.com
Micro-ivs.asia - http://www.micro-isv.asia
More Than Scratch The Surface - http://www.scratch99.com
Mothering Many - http://www.motheringmany.com
Pixel Head Online - http://pixelheadonline.com
Postcards From The Funny Farm -http://postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com*
Prudent Musings - http://www.prudentmusings.com
Revellian Dot Com - http://revellian.com *
Simple Curiosity? - http://www.simplecuriosity.com
Simple Kind Of Life - http://www.simplekindoflife.com
Simple Randomness - http://www.simplerandomness.com
Simply Digital - http://sweetagring.com
Skeet’s Stuff - http://skeetsstuff.skeeterbess.com
Table For Five - http://table4five.net *
Take Men Nowhere - http://takemenowhere.org
The Hidden Life Of Leaf - http://deweymonster.com
The Sassy Southerner - http://www.thesassysoutherner.com
The So Called Me - http://thesocalledme.net *
The Wizard of Duke Street - http://dukestreet.org
Too Much Sexy - http://www.toomuchsexy.org
Truly Odd Planet - http://www.trulyoddplanet.com
Wander’s World - http://wandersworld.fourleafhosting.com
Webomatica - http://www.webomatica.com
Untwisted Vortex - http://www.untwistedvortex.com *
Up The Hill Gang - http://jennyupthehill.com *
Music
Afrision - http://afrison.com
Axplay - http://www.axplay.com
Nature
Accidential Environmentalist - http://blog.jollygreengirl.com
Angs Chicken Coup - http://www.angschickencoop.com
Politics
Opinions Are Free - http://www.opinionisfree.com
Real Estate
Agent Genius - http://agentgenius.com
Agent Heaven - http://www.agentsheaven.com
Atalanta Real Estate Blog - http://www.ryanwardrealestate.com
Austin Real Estate Guy Blog- http://www.austinrealestateguy.com/blogs
Bloodhondblog - http://www.bloodhoundrealty.com
Brandon Real Estate Blog - http://brandonrealestateblog.com *
North County Luxury Homes - http://www.northcountyluxuryhomes.com
Our Monmouth Blog - http://ourmonmouthblog.com *
Real Estate Blog Lab - http://www.realestatebloglab.com
Real Estate Make Your move - http://www.newhomessection.com/blog
Tampa Real Estate News Blog - http://www.tampa-real-estate-blog.com
Team Aguila- http://www.teamaguilar.com/blogs
Technology For Agents - http://www.techforagents.com
The Phoenix real Estate Guy - http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com
Tucson Real Estate http://www.barbaralasky.com/tucson-real-estate-blog
Var Buzz - http://varbuzz.com
Science
Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog- http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net
Shopping
Buy Better And Have A Better Life - http://www.buylivebetter.com *
Buy Me Blog - http://www.buymeblog.com
Dragonfly Footbags - http://blog.footbagshop.com
Great Prices Here - http://www.greatpriceshere.com
Londoner Life - http://www.londonerlife.com
Saving Money - http://savingmoney.iblogger.org
Sports
Easter Road - http://hibs.easterroad.com *
Fish Hunt Explore - http://fishhuntexplore.com
Life In The Rough - http://www.lifeintherough.com
Travel
A Month in Venice - http://www.amonthinvenice.com
Brilliant Cheer - http://www.brilliantcheers.co.uk
Camping in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite - http://www.campingsierra.com
Florida Sun Dog- http://floridasundog.com
Niagara Falls Blog - http://www.niagarablog.com
The Buffalo River - http://thebuffaloriver.com
Turn The Screw - http://turnthescrew.com *
Tech Stuff
Anti Spyware & PC Security News – http://digitalhub-tips.com/spyware
Brown Thoughts - http://www.brownbaron.com/blog *
Compsci – http://www.compsci.ca/blog
Graphic Design Blog - http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk
I Web Is - http://iwebis.com
Jason Stone A So Cal Geek - http://jasonstone.name/index.php
Jones PC - http://www.jonespc.com
Keiron’s Window Of Madness - http://www.skillett.com/index.php
System Call - http://systemcall.org `
Tech Notes - http://technotes.blogsailor.com
Things By Mike - http://thingsbymike.com *
Web Design
Design Adaptations - http://designadaptations.com
Writing
Writing Thoughts - http://writingthoughts.com
Forums
SEO/Internet Marketing/Web Development
Iq69 - http://iq69.com/forums
iWebTool - http://talk.iwebtool.com
Affiliate Seeking - http://www.affiliateseeking.com/forums
All Cool - http://www.allcoolforum.com
Blogger Talk - http://www.bloggertalk.com
Business Forum - http://www.businesss-forum.com
BZimage - http://bzimage.org
Capital Theory - http://www.capitaltheory.com
Clicks - http://www.clicks.ws/forum
Cnet - http://forums.cnet.com
DNS Forum - http://www.dnforum.com
Frog Engine - http://www.frogengine.com/forum
Gentoo - http://forums.gentoo.org
Search Engine Roundtable - http://forums.seroundtable.com
SitePoint - http://www.sitepoint.com/forums
Submit Express - http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs
Ubuntu - http://ubuntuforums.org
Warrior Forum- http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/default.asp
W 3 SEO .org - http://w3seo.org
Web Development Community - http://www.v7n.com/forums
Webicy - http://forums.webicy.com
WebMaster Talk - http://www.webmaster-talk.com
Art
Deviant Art Forum - http://forum.deviantart.com
Business
Startups.com - http://www.startups.co.uk
The HYIP Forum - http://thehyipforum.com
Games
My Game Builder - http://mygamebuilder.com/forum
Movies
Movie List - http://www.movie-list.com/forum
Music
Harmony Central - http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forum
Music Forum - http://www.ableton.com/forum
WinAmp - http://forums.winamp.com/
CBR - http://forums.comicbookresources.com
Book and Reading Forums - http://forums.onlinebookclub.org
Sports
Addict Sports - http://addictsports.com/baseball
Baseball Talk Pro - http://www.baseballtalkpro.com/forum
Weightlifting Forum - http://www.weightliftingforum.net
Windows
Windows - http://mygamebuilder.com/forum
Xandros
Xandros Forum - http://forums.xandros.com
Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.
KISS My Website!
May 14, 2008
KISS My Website
I was reading an article today about website usability. When it struck me that what they were saying was the equivalent to Keep It Simple Stupid. I thought, Wow, this really sums up our approach to building websites that convert website visitors into customers.
When I encounter a website that was way too much information crammed onto a page I leave quickly wondering “what were they thinking when they built this site.” These sites often have multiple navigation menus and way too much information. This creates information overload. These websites have very high bounce rates and are not very effective.
Many websites overload you with too many options on the home page. This makes finding anything difficult. They often include flashing avatars to get your attention. They fail to understand how the eyes track when you visit a website. Eye tracking studies have shown that any movement, picture or graphic on a web page actually makes concentrating on the written content more difficult.
This is why we only use simple clean designs that do not overwhelm the visitor. That is why we focus on turning the website visitor into a customer, before we concentrate on “The look and feel” of the website.
As part of our KISS approach we use a hub and spoke system of website design. Our home page hub provides snippets of information about the other pages and provides a link to this detailed information. These links act like spokes that lead away from the hub.
We specialize in building websites for service industries. Visitors to these sites are transactional searchers. The transactional searchers are looking to complete a transaction. They are active and highly motivated to find a service provider who can fulfill there needs. They respond well to clean straight forward websites that clearly define the service and how it will benefit them. The final touch to our KISS approach is that we ask you to pick up the phone and call Now! We do this on every page.
We often remind clients that vanilla ice cream is by far the largest selling flavor of ice cream world wide. We dish up vanilla websites day in and day out. The reality is that the service website visitor is looking you to solve a problem or fulfill a need. That is why we KISS with our websites.
Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities
Your Fresh Start .us obtains a Page Rank of 4
May 2, 2008
To our clients and potential clients Page Rank is not something that they know about or care about. It seems like the only people who care about Page Rank are webmasters and alike. I will freely admit for me it’s an ego thing. Our website had a PR of 4 and dropped to a three in October of last year. However, at the same time our blog went from a 0 to a PR of 3.
Since we were winding down the cleaning business down as we began our SEO business we were not giving it much attention and were loosing links as time went by. So I was a bit amazed today to discover that both the website and its blog were given a PR of 4. Maybe, it does pay off to voice an opinion or two in support of Google’s position on buying and selling of links. Ya’ just never know!
Actually, this PR change comes at a very good time for us as we begin to market the website differently. Instead of creating cleaning business customers we are using the site as example for our website design and redesign services. We believe it is a good example of how cleaning service website should be.
We observed that most cleaning service website were very unattractive. They were often displaying workers cleaning or wearing cleaning attire. We thought that a premium service needed to display not the tools or workers performing cleaning but the end results of these efforts. So our website scattered about pictures of clean and orderly homes and offices.
We also clearly detailed our services and asked for their business and to contact us now. This is known as a call to action. All of these are very simple techniques but missing on most websites. Our website set an expectation of quality. It portrays our message very effectively.
The Your Fresh Start website is the standard that we use when selling our website design services to our potential web site design service clients.
Geo-targeted websites for the cleaning and services related businesses.
April 29, 2008
Tucson SEO Solutions is excited to announce that we are offering affordable websites that are specifically built for the house cleaning, cleaning services, and other service related businesses that have a local customer base, such as Tucson.
These websites meet the unique demands of lead generation required by all service industries. We have chosen to use the open source platform, WordPress to build these sites.
The choice of WordPress allows us to include the following with our websites.
The actual website that specifically designed to generate leads using the features and benefits presentation that includes a “call to action.” We also include all aspects of good basic Geo-Targeted SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. This is the process of creating high search ranking and website traffic.
We also provide Search Engine Marketing which is designed to provide search engine and visitor traffic.
We are able provide all of these services and create winning websites all for about the price of most design services.
We invite you to visit the Web Sites For Service Providers
Tucson SEO… Solutions that create probabilities out of possibilities.
WordPress Developers Needed
April 26, 2008
We are recruiting for dependable WordPress developers to work as sub-contractors on a regular basis. The two main requirements are experience and dependability. We prefer Tucson based vendors.
Experience doesn’t do us much good if you are not dependable. We work on tight schedules and require that you be able to perform as required. We have a no excuses policy. If you are given a project and you can not successfully complete it on time you will not be given a second opportunity.
We currently have more projects in the pipeline than we have available WordPress developers. You can work as much as you can realistically handle. We do not work on an hourly rate and all projects are provided based on an agreed upon bid. You will receive payment two weeks after the work has been placed onto the customer’s web host and they have signed off on the project. The two week wait is to cover any bugs that migght need to be addressed.
We operate on an under promise and over deliver process. That means that we exceed the customer’s expectations. If we tell the client the project will take 8 weeks we will deliver the project in 6 weeks. So we need realistic time estimates from our developers. If you tell us that you can have the work done in 3 weeks and it takes you longer. It will be the last project that you will work on. Our clients are not paying for excuses.
We are about to launch a national campaign going after the cleaning services industry and other services industries. We will be producing very clean and straight forward websites that sell. Our focus is not so much on the look and feel, but making sure that the content sells. We are marketers first and developers second.
We have recently acquired over 20 domain names that we plan on developing. We are currently looking to develop at least one new website per month for the remainder of this year for ourselves. We have begun marketing the Phoenix market.
We have a 5 year growth plan with visions of entering the top 100 markets. We only offer services to local website using Geo-targeting SEO (not GIS). We also offer service for niche product websites. We will consider small E-commerce sites where we can easily use WordPress plugins.
All website will include 6-10 plugins each. The most time consuming aspect of these sites might be the header. We prefer to use horizontial navigation bars with drop down menu’s. For SEO purposes we have the blog excerpts loop onto the corresponding pages.
We have a five year and exit plan. Then it’s early retirement for us. There is a tremendous opportunity for the right highly motivated individuals.
Grad students will be given first consideration, but if you are highly skilled and motivated that will not be a problem.
If you are interested we will need the following.
A resume delivered in the body of an email and not as an attachment. Pay attention to this requirement over 90% of respondents send attachments. We figure that they can not follow basic instructions then you have eliminated yourselves.
If you have done paid work before we will need the links to that work and reference contact information.
If you haven’t done paid work we will need links to what you have done and someway to verify that this is your work.
A real big plus will be if you have developed WordPress websites. Please do not call, if we are interested we will contact you for an appointment.
We are not interested in using any other CMS.
We also will not outsource outside of the US and Canada.
Thanks, for your time and consideration.
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