Just a little video blog post I made about Google and sitelinks. Google updated PageRank last night and I was going through our list of sites checking who gained/lost PR and I cam across an interesting thing where it appears I caught Google in the middle of adding sitelinks. Further explanation in the video.

Google in the middle of adding sitelinks? is a post from: Fort Myers Web Design

Back on topic, I’m really excited to be in the local SEO market now, no more competing against the YouTubes and Wikipedias, the PR6, PR7, or higher behemoths. nope, now it’s mainly the mom and pop stores trying to rank for stuff like “naples lawn care” or “fort myers plumbing”, this is going to be like a much needed vacation.

I’ll post more soon, time for bed right now though.

This is going to be a nice break is a post from: Fort Myers Web Design

Recently Google actually removed the section of their webmaster guidelines that said to submit to web directories, yes, they removed it. In other words, they no longer recommend that as a good SEO option.

That’s not to say all directories are bad, getting into DMOZ is still a great idea in my opinion. Also getting into any niche directory is still a good idea. It’s the general web directories that I’d stay away from, especially the ones that charge money and even worse the ones who let you bid on your directory positioning. I’ve seen directory after directory get his with penalties because of selling links or positions.

What about the Yahoo Directory? I’ve never personally submitted one of my sites there because in my opinion $300 can be used better elsewhere. You can get lots of other nice stuff for your site for $300. There was once a guy on DP that knew an exploit to get into the Yahoo Directory at will, he was selling submissions for $60 or something, he had literally 100’s of orders in the first day, dunno how that went. I didn’t buy one because I’m sure Yahoo discovered what was going on and patched the exploit and removed all the sites that guy submitted.

I still think niche directories are a good idea. Say you have a site about web design, go submit it to web design related directories. Should you pay? Meh, I don’t know, I probably wouldn’t in most cases but you have to make up your own mind about such things.

Web Directories is a post from: Fort Myers Web Design

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 can see this is going to be an annoying battle with WEB DESIGN COMPANY is a post from: Fort Myers Web Design

So at first I was pretty mad and considered going on a rampage like I did with the “naples seo” search term. If you search for “naples seo” you will see the search results have been pretty much devastated by various sites that I control. At one time it was a peaceful land where all “SEOers” in Naples happily shared the space with each other. Today, not so much. This change hasn’t gone un-noticed either, some people have been talking about me and what I do, they have also sent me some messages via awstats referrers.

So anyway, after sitting back and thinking I started to relax. While my first reaction was to pollute the search results for “naples web design” like I did the results for “naples SEO”, I realized doing so would take time and energy away from my #1 goal of hitting the first result for Naples Web Design in Google. Which by the way, I’m at #2 now. I’d like to hit that #1 before the end of the month, I’m actually surprised it’s taken this long.

This isn’t a green light to start copying my methods either. If you push it too far I will get angry and take it out on the offending company or companies. So please, copy off me with care. Doing it here and there is fine, just let’s not get too crazy with it, OK?

What to do with copy cats? is a post from: Fort Myers Web Design