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40% of web users don't go beyond the first page
of search results. So if you're not in the Top 10,
many of your potential customers won't even know
you exist.
I have a 12 year track record of attaining
exceptional organic search engine results. No
tricks, no spam. Just good clean SEO (Search Engine
Optimization) and site promotion.
The following examples are all from Google, by far
and away the most important search engine with 59%
market share. Yahoo is a distant second with 18%
and MSN 3rd with 11%. All rankings are after
Google's local map results, which do not count as
part of the official search results. Updated
5/19/2008.
Playing With The Big Boys
Fantasy sports is an extremely competitive market,
with many media heavyweights - ESPN, CBS
Sportsline, Yahoo, and the NFL - all in on the
action. And just look at the number of web pages
I'm competing against for some of these
searches.
HeySportsFans
Fantasy Sports
fantasy
football leagues #11 out of 5.68 million
pages
fantasy
baseball leagues #5 out of 6.45 million
pages
playoff
fantasy football #8 out of 237,000 pages
fantasy
march madness #4 out of 417,000 pages
Localized SEO
I excel at localized SEO, getting targeted results
for brick-and-mortar stores servicing a limited
geographic area. Targeted keyphrases comprise of a
major city plus their product line (see below).
These are extremely valuable, representing active
consumers looking for products and services in
their local area.
Advanced
Blind & Shade
los
gatos vertical blinds #1 out of 5,800 pages
soquel
shades #2 out of 24,100 pages
santa
cruz blinds #3 out of 261,000 pages
scotts
valley shutters #3 out of 7,900 pages
monterey
blinds #3 out of 187,000 pages
ARE
Inspections
Here's a recent SEO-only project, with minimal
edits made to the layout and content. Previously
their rankings were greater than #30 for all of the
following high priority localized keyphrases. If
you can't be found on the first three search pages,
it's as if you don't exist - the percentage of
people who go beyond that is very small. For all
practical purposes, you might as well be #301 as
#31. Google results, 5/19/2008, exactly 1 month
after I uploaded their newly optimized pages.
santa
cruz allergens inspection #1 out of 78,700
pages
santa
cruz allergy inspection #1 out of 23,700
pages
santa
cruz bacteria inspection #1 out of 27,600
pages
santa
cruz bacterial inspection #1 out of 43,100
pages
santa
cruz environmental inspection #7 out of 5,310
pages
santa
cruz mold inspection #9 out of 839,000
pages
santa
cruz well water inspection #1 out of 62,300
pages
monterey
allergens inspection #1 out of 56,600 pages
monterey
allergy inspection #1 out of 33,100 pages
monterey
bacteria inspection #1 out of 53,800 pages
monterey
bacterial inspection #1 out of 74,000 pages
monterey
environmental inspection #13 out of 57,000
pages
monterey
mold inspection #7 out of 423,000 pages
monterey
well water inspection #1 out of 368,000
pages
Project cost $850, which should pay for itself many
times over with all the newfound "free" hits. And
that $850 is the complete and total cost. No
monthly service fee, no future obligation for me to
do anything else. There are sites I optimized 5 to
7 years ago, haven't touched them since and they
still hold their Top 10 rankings. Sure, the
rankings fluctuate over time, they always do, but
given most of my clients weren't even on the radar
when I came onto the scene, they're not sweating it
if they were #6 last week and #7 today.
WebsitesThatWork.bz
This site itself is something of a minor accomplishment
websites that work #14 out of 66,600,000 pages. Yes, over 66 million results.
While search engine optimization is an open-ended
venture - there's always something that can be done
to eek out the best possible results - most clients
can't afford to have me constantly fiddling with
their site. So I aim to give the biggest bang for
the buck, focusing on those optimization techniques
that will provide the greatest long-term impact at
a reasonable cost.
I can never guarantee results. If you have to be #1
tomorrow, be prepared to invest in a good pay-per
click campaign at 10 cents to $5 a click, depending
upon the keyphrase. I can manage that for you
too.
For best results, contact me as early in the
process as possible, even before you select a
domain name. Even if you intend for someone else to
design the site, get me in on it from the
beginning. There are cases where I've had to fix
other people's mistakes and it's ended up costing
more than if I had built the site from scratch
myself. This is not an ego thing, it truly is a big
deal. There are site designs that are so search
engine unfriendly that I've had to tell several
prospective clients, "Trash everything you've done
and rebuild the entire site or I won't take the
job." No matter what I do, or how many hours I put
in, I know the chances for even minimal success are
nil. I can't take that money in good concscience,
nor am I willing to risk putting my professional
reputation on the line for what I know is a project
doomed to failure. Finally, please allow for time.
It can take 4-6 months for a site to be fully
indexed by search engines other than Google and for
improvement in results to be noticed.
Please visit my port-philio
for traffic increase results.
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