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Some times when your hard work pays off, it’s good to lean back and admire what you’ve done for a moment.  This post is one of those moments.  We’ve made learning how search engines work and how to best use the info we gather, a priority for over a decade.  For the last eight years, we’ve had some great successes with the search engines.  Since most traffic to a web site comes from a search engine and the overwhelming majority of that traffic comes from the first page of search results, you can see how this greatly benefits our clients.

There are two points to consider when viewing this list.

First, it was compiled on 07-05-2010 and the search engines change their rankings all the time.  We keep on top of this but lack of resources by certain clients may cause them to fall in the rankings.  Of course some client are putting more resources into their search engine marketing efforts thus their ranking will improve.  Once you learn how to get a web site ranked well, it’s just  a matter of putting the right amount of resources into it for the keyphrase you want to rank well.

Secondly, there are numerous web sites that are doing even better than these but larger clients often request a non disclosure agreement.  there are several reasons for this.  Like if they are a web design company or an seo company.  Sometimes they are in a completed unrelated industry, they just don’t want their competition to read their web designers blog and learn their custom strategy.  I can’t say I blame them.

Here’s a short list of some of our most recent search engines successes:

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The rumors are that Google’s “no follow” crusade is back firing for them. If you believe the rumors, Google is having trouble finding content. Google has always been about incoming links, a little less for the last year or so, but for competitive key phrases, it’s obvious that the sites with the most inbound links will have a better chance of ranking higher for their desired key phrases, no matter what the folks at Google say. Here’s Matt Cutts Google’s spokesman on the subject of do follow links and no follow links:

Our take on why no follow links are more valuable than Matt says and more insight after the jump…
Continue reading “Google’s Do Follow Blessing” »

We’ve had another search engine success with a new web site. This is a new web site, targeting a fairly competitive keyphrase: Florida Data Services.  It has done so with some success and again just minimal effort.  It’s true “Florida Data Service” isn’t the most searched for keyphrase out there, but it highly targets the market this web site is seeking to capture.  Withing 5 weeks this site shot straight to #2 on Google.  Yahoo, Go.com, AltaVista, AllTheWeb.com seem to be madly in love with the web site, as it’s #1 on these search engines for several key phrases.  This is usually an indicator that it will be #1 on Google for at least some of these secondary key phrases in the near future.

This site has had no more than our Basic SEO Package.  That worked out this time because we were able to find a niche without a lot of competition.  For more more popular key phrases, some variation of our Advanced SEO Package is usually needed.  But consistently, we’ve proved that if your willing to put the resources into it, we can get you the top spot on Google for just about any search phrase you’d like.

All my clients know I’ve been saying this for years.  “Put your #1 key phrase in your domain name.”  Well it looks like everyone else is catching on.  I’m sure these gentlemen can explain it better in their interview format:

Every now and then it’s a great idea to follow up on a web site’s progress.  Even if the client wants nothing more than a economical small web site placed up and can’t afford to purchase any marketing for the web site.  Today we’ll following up on a company, Pateco, that just wanted a basic web site and had absolutely no budget for marketing the web site.  That’s ok, because we always throw in our Basic SEO package for free with every full site web design package.

The Basic SEO package is quite extensive.  It won’t get you to the top of the Google pile for very competitive key phrases like “Health Supplements” , but it will help separate you and help you out-compete the other web sites that haven’t done any on page SEO.  Our Basic SEO is basically a full site run, professional on page SEO effort.  This is more extensive (at least at Dream Designs it is) than you think.  The process is partially secret but here’s the things we do that we can publish:

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http://blog.texxsmith.com/web-design-references/seo-glossary

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