It’s been quite a while since I’ve updated this blog, and a lot has happened since then. At the end of my last blog post, I said that I had submitted my website to the Yahoo Directory. Did it help? You bet! The Yahoo Directory comes at quite a steep price at $299 per year, but I…
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The road to #1 hasn’t been easy, but it has certainly been fun. We have been met with some stiff competition since making the top 10, and we’ve been on and off the first page quite frequently. we just logged in and saw in our keyword tracker that we’re now showing up at #4 for…
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Happy Belated New Year! It’s been quite a while since my last blog post. In the last few weeks, my rankings for web design in Atlanta, GA have dropped a little. Although the amount of calls and traffic is holding steady or even increasing a little, I won’t be satisfied until I have that #1…
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Over the last few weeks, my Google rankings have gone up and down. It’s competitive in the top 10. I’m holding steady at #9 for “web design in atlanta ga” although I’ve dropped a couple of notches to #14 for “web designer atlanta“. These are average rankings generated by the SERPs.com keywords rank tracker. Maybe…
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My Google rankings have gone up a few notches this week, but we’ll see if my improved rankings stick. Last week, my website was at #13 for the keyphrase “web design in atlanta ga” on Google. This week, I’m back inside the top 10 and on the first page. As for “web design atlanta ga”,…
Read MoreI’ve been met with quite a bit of resistance since cracking the top 10 in Google for Atlanta web designers. I just checked my rankings on the SERPS.com rank tracker, and I’ve fallen a few notches even though my organic visits have increased 62% over the last week. You can see in the following screenshots…
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I’ve been so slammed with work from existing clients that I haven’t had any time to work on my website’s SEO. Not that I really need it (knock on wood). I’m lucky to have a great group of website design clients in the Atlanta area. According to my search engine rankings checker, I’m still around…
Read MoreWhen we first started tracking our Google ranking for this keyphrase back in August of 2011, we were on the 7th or 8th page of Google. Most of our business came via word of mouth with the occasional Facebook page referral. Back then, we used to manually check my Google ranking for keyphrases related to…
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That’s correct. Although the SEO experts say that your meta description doesn’t have any impact on your organic search engine ranking, it does have an impact on whether your potential client or customer gives you a call or not. For those of you who don’t know, what is in your website’s meta description is often…
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I’ve read books on SEO, and many of them recommended using link: on Google to find competitor backlinks like this: link:yourcompetitorwebsite.com Things have changed since I first wrote this blog post in 2013. When I first used the link operator on mrtechnique.com, there were only 3 results in Google: The year is now 2018, and there…
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