So the PR Update seems to be finished now and my friend from India IM’d me today and showed me Google has started using a new type of sitelinks. The usual sitelink format can be seen here, the new format can be seen here. I’d still rather have the origional type of sitelinks as opposed to the new ones, but I guess we will take whatever we can get.
I was just messing around and noticed a site of mine had some green crack, also know as Google Page Rank. So check your sites boys and girls and see if the Google Santa left you any presents!
Search engines love content, new and unique content specifically. The easiest way for you to get some love from the search engines is to make new content. Preferably this should be done on your own domain but if you don’t have a company domain you can use a variety of free blogging services, here are a few for you to use…
Here’s a short video on how to create a free blogger blog:
I would definitely recommend getting your own domain, it’s a tiny bit more expensive than free, but not much. Figure $10 a year for the domain and a few bucks per month on hosting. It will give you much more control over your site and most importantly YOU will own it, not Google or WordPress, or whoever you decide to use for your free blog hosting.
You can always contact us and we can do everything for you as well 
I was sort of hoping that they didn’t even know or care that they had #1 for Naples Web Design, apparently they did know and do care. My old boss just pointed out to me that they not only have #1 again but they adjusted their page title. I don’t remember what the title was before but it had all kinds of other babbling in the title, now it’s just “naples web design”. Fine.
Part of me wants to let them have it because to be honest, while the traffic is decent, I’ve got maybe 1 or 2 leads from this site? The other part of me is raged because not only did I lose #1, now I have to start working on it again to get my #1 back.
How long have you guys been around? I could check whois but I’m lazy, I suspect you have a semi-aged domain, yes? 5 years? More? If this damn domain wasn’t so new my worries would probably be natta. Whatever, I’ll see you all at #2 shortly! Why don’t you guys outsource SEO to me? Get a hold of me, I’m sure we can work something out
EDIT: I also changed my page title back to a straight “naples web design”, sorry Ryan.
EDIT2: Here are the stats for this domain in case anyone is curious. I know, I know, it’s not all from web search, it’s getting a ton of traffic from Google Images but I can’t find out what the search term is.
I must say this took much longer than I thought it would. Isoosi made good use of the footer links in their clients pages, luckily for me Google has discounted those links greatly the past 6 months or so, otherwise I’d still be sitting somewhere under their #1 spot.
Also noticed that when I moved to #1 my little Google Maps advert moved to letter A. I never knew, and still don’t for certain, that Google takes into consideration how you rank in the SERPs when it comes to ranking you in Google Maps but it certainly seems there is some kind of relationship there.
That’s all I have for now, I’ll post again soon.
So I was thinking about why we dropped and the day before we fell, I added links on all the network of sites pointing back here wqith the anchor of “naples web design”. Unfortunately the network is hosted on the same C-Class IPs so Google knows that all the links are coming form the same owner and may have issued some sort of penalty. I’m going to let the links ride for about a week and if I don’t see any improvement then I’ll start removing them one at a time, probably one a day.
I think we are going to try and start getting clients from outside Naples and the general Southwest Florida area. This is still our main area of operation but since adding so many new employees recently we need to start bringing in more clients and leads, it seems expanding through all of Florida is the natural thing to do. Not sure how we will do this, probably a combination of the sales guys cold calling and maybe a little SEO targeting other areas.
I mean right now we are #25 or something for Florida Web Design, and I’m speaking of the RT site, not this one. So anyhow, if we are at #25 now with no real effort I’m wondering if we couldn’t get 1st page for Florida Web Design? This is actually a bold question considering Google threw me back to page #2 today for Naples Web Design, I’m hoping this is just another one of her bad days, usually these things will correct themselves.
I’m also running a test with one of my old domains that was going to waste, it has decent PR and age, I’m going to see ifg I can’t get it 1st paged for Naples Real Estate. I just started it yesterday and already it’s on page 3 for the term, so we will see. I’ll definetly post about it here when/if it hits the first page. I wonder what a top5 on Google for Naples Real Estate is worth? Anything?
RT Design has always done graphic design for our clients. Usually our graphic designer is used mainly to design the logos and backgrounds for our clients websites. Recently we decided that we were missing a huge chunk of business in Naples and Fort Myers by not targeting clients that needed only graphics created. Perhaps a store owner who needs a banner for the front window or a new company that needs a logo for business cards. There are literally 100’s of different situations where people require a graphic design artist. Even those little roadside signs you see around town “Naples Upscale Singles” and “Fort Myers Singles” followed by a domain name, who do you think makes those? That’s right, graphic designers. Speaking of those signs, you know those things cost almost $10 each to make? I inquired about having some made up for a project I was doing a couple years ago and after you factor in the price for the little metal frames/stand, you’re looking at almost $10 per sign.
Anyway, the point of this post was to make it known that we are going to start targeting this niche. Right now I’m just focusing on Naples but soon as this area is going well I’ll move to Fort Myers and Cape Coral and get things going there. Don’t hesitate to contact us for any of your web or graphic design needs.
