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SEO and Blog Consulting
Posted by: | CommentsThe main thing that I do for my clients is help them show up on the search engines. I put together websites as well, but I only build websites to help the search engine results. I have found over time that it is often better to start from scratch than it is to try and get some websites to respond to the search engines. I will often build a new site that looks just like the old one, or start with a whole new domain name and build from the ground up. The search engines are a fascinating entity to work with. What makes them so fascinating? As good as some people are at SEO and as much as they know about what makes the search engines happy, no one has it all figured out. Sometimes they just like to throw you a curve. This Blog Consulting site has been around for almost three years. Before I bought the domain name, someone had been using it, so there is plenty of history on the site. For the last year, this site has consistently been on the first page in Google for a search of blog consulting. Most of that time it was in position 3. It disappeared from the Google search last week. I just found it again today, hiding nicely in position 229.
Position 229 stinks. That is a drop of 226 positions. It is really not great considering keeping websites on page 1 of Google is what I get paid to do. What about Yahoo and Bing?
Number three on Yahoo and number one on Bing. So what happened to Google? Here is what I think happened. I had a little lull in business about two months ago so I took the time and spent it on my own badly neglected blog (it is like an electrician who never changes a light bulb because they are too busy fixing stuff for everyone else). I wrote new articles, updated the site, did some article marketing, commented on some peers blogs and in a very short time my links shot up from 2000 to 7000. They were all good links, but it was a little too many a little too fast. So, somewhere in the Google algorithm, Google says, “we better pull that site out and make sure it is legitimate”. Since all of the links were good, the site will come back in the near future. In the meantime, I have gotten real busy again (look for new Optimizer Man adventures with Structural Engineering Services, Florida Keys Homes for Sale, Skydiving in Florida, and Miami Skydiving), so it will give the site a chance to move back to page one. What does this mean to you? Don’t freak out if your site moves off of page 1 for a season. As long as you are using solid SEO practices it will find its way back.
Free Blog Consulting Part 9
Posted by: | CommentsI know that I said that Part 8 would probably be the last in this series called Free Blog Consulting, but something happened today that I thought you might be interested in if you have been reading these articles. Today we got our first Google Adsense click on the Cool New Inventions site. If you go back and read the first article in this series you will see how we used keyword research to pick a keyword that got traffic and had some keyword value. We settled on cool inventions and started this site. Today, we are less than a month in on the site and we got a click that was worth $1.23 (One Dollar and twenty-three cents). Here is the report from Google:
Obviously, no one is going to get real excited over $1.23, but the point is that you get to see the process at work. If you were able to get a site that produced enough traffic and enough clicks, you could end up with a pretty decent income stream. What if the site stays about the same and starts getting a steady $1 or $2 dollars a day? Is it worth having? It might be if it doesn’t take a lot of time to maintain. If the site made $45 dollars a month and only took about an hour to maintain every month, it might be worth having. It would take about a month and a half to cover the cost of the domain name and hosting, but then you would have 10 and half months of income or about $500 a year profit for about 10 hours of work. What if you had a hundred sites that produced a $500 dollar a year profit? As long as the 100 sites only needed an hour or less of work a month, then you could effectively make $50,000 a year for about 1000 hours of work. That would be about twenty hours a week, at about fifty dollars an hour. However, there are a lot of ifs, and most people are not willing to do the hard work that would be required to get something like this established. Well, there you go, that will end the Free Blog Consulting series of articles. I hope you find the information useful.
