I’m happy to report that my Google page rankings for my problem site have now been holding steady at number 2 for the last couple of weeks.

Page ranking number 2 for keyword

This is very cool and I will keep adding content and blog posts until I take out the number 1 ranked site.  I think I will be doing some short videos of the techniques I use and try video link building as part of this as well.

Once again, stay tuned for the next update…. SEO rankings are a journey, not a destination!

Jim

I Have an SEO Problem… Apparently I Don’t! is a post from: Enduring SEO

There are competing theories to explain this, one being that my site got caught up in the recent Google update and came out on the short end, ranking wise. The other is that I got less picky than I should have in my article marketing efforts and that some of the articles are located on “gray barred” (bad reputation) pages that are killing my rankings. The second theory flies in the face of conventional wisdom that incoming links can’t harm your SERP rankings, but it was expounded by someone who has enough data to be convinced that bad incoming links torpedo rankings all the time.

I’m still on the fence between these two scenarios and have not given up looking for a third or fourth potential cause of this pain in the butt situation.  I will be documenting my efforts to track down the cause and implement the fix right here in this blog, so stay tuned.

I Have an SEO Problem, Perhaps You Can Relate? is a post from: Enduring SEO

As an SEO expert, I use strategies that are intended to deliver long term results to my clients.  None of the stuff I do is rocket science or SEO magic, it is simply applying common sense based on a large amount of research and on experience I’ve acquired in figuring out what helps and what doesn’t when it comes to search engine results.  It can be boiled down to giving Google what it wants, which is value added, readable, keyword focused content on a page. Google wants this because it wants searchers to find what they are searching for without wading through a ton of crap pages. If the searcher is happy, Google is happy and the pages that make the searcher happy move up in the SERPs.

So if it’s all common sense, why do SEO experts exist?  For the same reason a lawyer, an engineer, a car mechanic or an IT technician exists. Not every web site owner or web developer has the time or wants to learn the techniques required to move their pages onto the top of the SERPs. They’d rather focus on their core business and pay someone else to handle it.

If they pay someone and get the long term results they are looking for, who’s going to claim that they got a bad deal?  Sure it might have cost them some money, but think of the time and aggravation they saved by not having to reinvent the wheel…

As an ethical SEO practitioner, I make sure my clients understand what volume of traffic their chosen keywords can generate for their site, as well as how competitive their niche is and how long it will take to achieve their goals. I do this as part of a free site review that is the first step in any client engagement I undertake. If they decide they want to work with me, they know what they are paying for.

I’m an SEO and Proud of It! is a post from: Enduring SEO