Below are the rankings in both Google and Bing. Things are looking good. The pages that got fresh content did very well. Traffic is up 35% and pages per visit is up. The blue line is the last 3 months compared to the previous 3 months (green line) Once these keywords start to show on the first page we should see some good traffic. We went from not showing in the top 1000 to ranking for dozens of keywords in the top 100. With more onpage optimization, fresh content, images, and links the rankings will continue to climb. Continue reading »
Jul 292011
As I am going through my seo consult with Value Cruises, I am going to keep a running list of all the link built here on my website for 2 reasons. 1) So that everyone can see my link building history that is easily accessible and 2) So that the search engines have another avenue to indexing links I have built. There is nothing worse than creating a ton of backlinks and then a month later you see many have not been indexed.
So these links are spread out to various authoritative sites. If you look at the google page rank on the home page of any of these, you can see they have a high PR. Also check them in Alexa. These are great places to put links back to the Value Cruises Website. Beyond these high quality links I have also done blog commenting, forum posting, directory submission, among the others. The idea is to get a diverse backlink portfolio. I build links with white hat techniques. These are both nofollow and dofollow links.
Below you will see some baseline figures for Value Cruises and a handful of competitors. We are looking at indexed pages on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Then I used Yahoo Site Explorer to check backlinks. Alexa score is your traffic ranking on the web. Next is your website grader score. And finally OSE is Open Site Explorer which is a link profile tool. Where the Value Cruises website is lacking is really in the link profile. Once we gain some inbound links and optimize the pages..this should help alot with the website rankings. Continue reading »
Below are the Google Analytics baseline report for The Value Cruises Consult. Most of the reports were run using the non-paid traffic segment. ”Non-paid means the traffic was referred organically from the search engine.” (Google) So to you and I this means anyone who comes to the valuecruises.net website by using a search engine. This is important because many things can affect traffic. If you send an extra newsletter out one month, the traffic could be significantly higher. But by using the search engine traffic segment…we see only the “organic traffic” and this is how you measure how good the search engine optimization is doing.” Continue reading »
So my buddy Don sent me a freelance gig. The lady is a manager of an Irvine California Dentist Office. She really does not know much (ok anything) about SEO and websites, but she is smart enough to know she needs to be out there on the web. So I took alook at some keyword opportunities in the area and this is what I found. Continue reading »