I’ve just started working with LOTUSJUMP (http://www.lotusjump.com) for SEO. Here is a screenshot of my first look at what it suggests I do for Optimization.
By the way – on the previous post – forgot to include my third SEO term:
3. Fort Wayne eCommerce
OK, here’s the screenshot:
As you have probably read from my recent posts, I’ve been spending a lot of time recently trying to optimize my own website recently.
I’ve been doing OK on my own, and now thought I would give a new tool a chance.
The new tool is put out by a company called LotusJump (http://www.lotusjump.com). The trial has two basic purposes:
1. See if I can improve my own SEO
2. Evaluate the value of the service provided by LotusJump
So, here’s the three words I have currently in the lotusjump SEO:
1. Fort Wayne Web Design – which gets about 210 monthly searches
2. Custom Web Development – which gets about 2,900 monthly searches
Here are my current page results for each:
For “Fort Wayne Web Design”:
AOL: page 2 – #11
GOOGLE: page 2 – #11
LYCOS: not found
YAHOO: not found
MSN: page 1 – #8
NETSCAPE: page 2 – #11
For “Custom Web Development”:
AOL: not found
GOOGLE: not found
LYCOS: not found
YAHOO: not found
MSN: not found
NETSCAPE: not found
So, I’ve got plenty of room for the second term, also a little bit of room for improvement on my first.
I’m going to try it for 30 days and give you the result. Consider it a running test…
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).
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:
