Craigslist Launched A Search Engine Optimization Career!
September 27, 2008
Craigslist helped launch our SEO career, yes it’s true. We had had a lot of success using Craigslist to market our organically grown plant business back in 2005 and 2006. However, we could not overcome a severe drought that has gripped the desert southwest were we live for several years.
We closed that business and took the summer off to rest and reflect on our future. With a new source of income needed, as the autumn months approached, we called upon our past experience. Running a janitorial business. We knew that commercial services were not the route that we wanted to take.
So we chose to open, a professional house cleaning service. What we experienced using Craigslist was a race to become the lowest priced vendor asked to clean homes that hadn’t been cleaned in years. That was not the vision we had for our business.
We observed that none of my Craigslist competitors had a website to link to in their ads. That’s when the lights went off… So to speak, in my head… “If only we had a professional website that we could link to in our ads”, there we could explain how dependable we are and why our services were worth a premium price.
The problem was that there was no money for a professional website to be designed. When like any good entrepreneurs we realized that bartering was our only option. Finally, a designer agreed to exchange his services for ours. However, his time table was not in sync with ours and we needed a website now.
Our solution was a one page free geo-cities website from Yahoo. The site was up in an hour or two. Now, it was time to visit Craigslist to place a free ad that included a link to the new one page website.
My phone rang early the next morning, the caller explained I am on your website and I would like to set up an appointment for a consultation. We agreed to work together and this couple became my most lucrative client. This is our story of Craigslist launching an SEO career? I knew that day this Internet thing was where we were headed!
The rest is history!
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Comments
5 Responses to “Craigslist Launched A Search Engine Optimization Career!”
Great story and from one SEO consultant to another I hope you have a successful and long career in the industry.
Working SEO on the East coast (Virginia) has been fun and demanding. I assume the West is no different. Best of luck.
As every new innovative solution on the web CraigsList was great for SEO in the past. Well, it still is good but not as it was in the past. Just as Brandon wrote – to much spam on it now.
At the moment the same thing is happaning to twitter – at least I think so and the time shall show it to us :)
Career of many SEO experts began all of a sudden for them. But SEO is not such an interesting and easy thing as it may seem at first glance. For those working in this field it�s very important to understand all the aspects connected with the site optimization and to know how the search engines work to be able to predict the result. Real SEO expert can predict the result of his job at the initial stage.
Im glad you have such a good story and a good start to the effect the online world can have to your business! as far as SEO goes, link building can be one of the most tedious things to do, adding content like this and the ability to give links is very much appreciated.
And were more than happy to write comments on good stories!
Thanks, for the comment Brandon,
I know we sent your blog a bunch of traffic since you were on the list. I hope it wasn’t to much of a hassle for you.