Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Graeme Smith on June 17, 2012, 12:38:14 pm
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Anyone use or used a SEO company and what might it cost?
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Depends on quite a few factors. And can get expensive as it is a lot of work to get there and keep it there.
I'd be happy to have a chat with you and give you a quote and references.
Am I allowed to prostitute myself?
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I thought with the new google updates that seo was dead, the tactics seo companies used have been disallowed.... so don't work
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Nooo very wrong Mike, the rules changed that's all. Its just a case of keeping up with it.
The company that did your website have done a really nice job of it Graham, they will know your site and I would advise to call them first.
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Go on Garry give us the top 3 seo techniques to help our website ranking :) :)
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I charge the same as I do for carpet cleaning.
A basket of dirty underwear and a cut of whatever we make on the video.
Made a fortune this week :-*
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THREE :o I'll give you one. New update is heavily weighted to content, new unique content. Also how long the average person stays on your page is important as well, that's two.
i've got my balls on the line as doing a website for someone on here at the moment and he wants it ranking. So in about 2 months i am either going to look like I know what I am doing or look a complete plonker ;D
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I agree about fresh content, I 'm trying to add fresh content on my site 3 times a week and a complete new page every month
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major typo on your site mike,im sure you know
gary
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Gary it full of them, most are in my comments which I tend to do from my Ipad in the coffeeshop on a morning, it doesn't have a spellcheck so loads get through..... does it really matter? would someone really not call because they see a spelling mistake
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mike like your site,but thats a cool looking van.................
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One or two.
What's worse is the writing is quite hard to read.
Needs to be bolder.
The van is great.
John
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You can be No1 in Google searches but every year the distinction between you and the paid entries gets less. Add in Maps entries and you wonder whether it's worth the investment if you are paying for SEO.
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Mike your pressure washing site looks good. Do you get much work off the site?
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Paul... No :-\
not off the pressurewashing site or my main site, this area is a backwater for the Internet I'm top of google for all the main search terms and maybe get 2 calls a week, I think the prices page puts a lot of people off.
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Paul... No :-\
not off the pressurewashing site or my main site, this area is a backwater for the Internet I'm top of google for all the main search terms and maybe get 2 calls a week, I think the prices page puts a lot of people off.
very easy to find out mike,
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don't really want to find out ! :D
I see my website as a information portal for customers to check me out rather than a way to gain customers,
if my prices page puts people off then I didn't want them to call anyhow
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fair enough.
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Go on Garry give us the top 3 seo techniques to help our website ranking Smiley Smiley
1/ Get your on page stuff right (not too heavy on the SEO)
2/ Get varied contextual links from good quality relevant sites.
3/ Get as much social activity as possible.
Sounds easy doesn't it? ;D
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Where do you rank Garry for carpet cleaning Birmingham......I don't see you
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I presume you mean in Google?
Down from 2 to 35 ish since Penquin.
Another site (18,000 exact searches per month in the USA) went from top 10 to 600.
After I "de-tuned (reduced the on page SEO), that one has recovered to 54 since Penquin 1.1 (but is just as likely to plummet again).
This year's project is to get most of the traffic from non Google sources.
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Jeez Garry, what were you doing for that to happen?
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Keep up Garyj.
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Keep up Garyj.
Reread it and still have no clue as to why they plummeted that far.
The question stands, so shut ya face Wynnie.
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I'm sorry GaryJ. I think I'm mixing you up with another Gary who has some SEO experience. Anyway, the clue is in Garry's response when he says detuning.
If all your links have your main keyword as anchor text you will be severely punished by Google. So the answer is to change any links you can to more mundane ones until your optimised terms is below 20% of the total. Hope that helps.
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Nope didn't know that is what detuning meant and also think something far more than tht happened.
Thanks for explaining that :P
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Nope didn't know that is what detuning meant and also think something far more than tht happened.
Thanks for explaining that :P
Well I know quite a bit about this now because I was getting a lot of complaints. LOL
Luckily we haven't used known link farms but we made extensive use of RSS feeds which has also been knocked back. I posted a couple of weeks ago about checking your Webmaster tools to see if you have had an 'offer you can't refuse' from google. If it transpires there are dodgey links they don't like then get rid and you might shoot right back up. If you can't send them a nice email and pray.
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hi wynne,talked to you about this before,penquinn slaughtered me on main keywords like carpet cleaning,carpet cleaners,first page now cant find site.Can you actually send google a email asking whats going on?????thanks
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I've got sites littered with keyword anchor text and thousands of links that had been got in hours. Those sites are doing better than ever thanks to Penguin.
What are you doing?
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hi wynne,talked to you about this before,penquinn slaughtered me on main keywords like carpet cleaning,carpet cleaners,first page now cant find site.Can you actually send google a email asking whats going on?????thanks
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
This is a good place to start and check your site. then read.
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I've got sites littered with keyword anchor text and thousands of links that had been got in hours. Those sites are doing better than ever thanks to Penguin.
What are you doing?
I was doing too many things right.
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Jeez Garry, what were you doing for that to happen?
Garyj,
It may not have necessarily been one thing. It was not the whole site(s) that got dropped. Certain pages bombed for certain terms (the high exact monthly search terms). Others with lots of on page tweaking but few backlinks actually did slightly better.
The drop probably represents the competitiveness of the keyword (hence three pages for a localised site and sixty pages for a worldwide spread site).
Luckily some things I did with my own sites were not done to clients' sites. These have been untouched
I did not get an "unnatural linking" message in Webmaster Tools and the sites did not get "Sitewide" penalties (some pages still rank quite well for less competitive terms). It is probably due to some factors carrying far less weight than they used to.
As Wynne says, if you do to many things "right" you get whacked!