Posted by Eric on November 9, 2008 |
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I’ve been using a tool by Market Leap (marketleap.com) to help me evaluate where my site is on various search engines.
Using the search term “Fort Wayne Website Design”, here’s what I’ve found:
AOL Search: 9 (page 1)
Google Search: 9 (page 1)
Lycos Search: 1 (page 1 – obviously)
MSN Search: 2 (page 1 – again obviously)
Netscape Search: 9 (page 1)
Yahoo Search: 1 (again, still page 1)
So, I feel pretty good about the results. I’m still wondering why I can’t seem to creep into the top results for Google Local (which appear at the top of the page when using Fort Wayne Website Design as the search term).
Posted by Eric on November 6, 2008 |
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If you look back at “take 2″ and “take 1″ – you can see how I have done at getting google traffic. Now that I am feeling better about my ranking on key terms, I decided it was time to look at my referring trafic again.
Here is a brief screenshot from Google Analytics:
You can see that now the traffic (albeit is pretty small) that is being referred from Google is much more “on target”. Now I am seeing terms like “website design fort wayne”, and “eh design” and “fort wayne web design”. These terms, obivously, are much more on track with what I want.
A couple of weird things -
Of course, it is Google -
When I search for “fort wayne web design” in Google – designedbyeh.com comes up at #9. But, when I search for “web design fort wayne”, designedbyeh.com comes up at #11 (page 2!).
The only real problem with following 2 numbers is that that moves me from page 1 to page 2 – a big deal.
Also, I still have to figure out how to appear in the top 10 in local results. Let me know if you have any ideas.
Finally – it’s also obvious that the SEO is starting to make a difference. Here’s a chart from the wp-stats:
Posted by Eric on November 2, 2008 |
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OK, if you have been reading my posts at all, I have finally cracked into page number 1 on Google!
My keyword / search phrase is “Fort Wayne Website Design”. And my current results are:
Google: #7
MSN: #1
Yahoo: #1
So, that seems like a pretty good results. I’ll be watching my blog stats (I’m using both Google analytics and WP-Stats) to see if this means any more traffic.
Questions and issues that remain to be solved:
1. Why don’t I appear in the top 10 LOCAL results in Google?
2. Why do I appear #1 in Yahoo and MSN, but only #7 in Google – I need Google to be Top 5
3. Is this a good search term? Should I optimize for something better? Should I “ADD” another option – i.e. try to stay #1 on the current term (“Fort Wayne Website Design”), but add another term?
So, I’ll be watching, reading data, and asking questions over the next month to see what the answers are. Keep reading, I’ll have answers in the future.
