SEO company information request

Comes down to business model. If someone thinks they can start a business nowadays without any advertising I'd be impressed. Its one thing if you've been around a long time to rely on word of mouth but not if you never washed anything before. More and more customers look online for reassurance on who they hire. Even more so for some customers if you don't have a website you might as well not exist.

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I got a website 10 years after I started my business. Relying on the internet to make your business grow is a way to go out of business quickly. This Vic guy is asking a lot of questions for someone who want even fill out a signature.


Okay. 10 years ago the world was an entirely different place. I also see this occupation for yu is part time. OFF DUTY FIREMAN. Youve also been at it 10 years. If you read my previous post on signature you wouldve answered that question for yourself. Since this is the 2nd time Ive heard it -Ill say it again, I dont own a business. YET. I am posting as a interested party looking for answers. If thats okay with you? Now supplementing your income is great. Coming into ANY business today without (1) branding (2) an internet presence is just an impossibility.

Asking alot of questions is (1) whats needed for validation (2) asking if people have used the SEO companies is the best method I know to see how good their results are.

A compare and contrast , between yourself and I is really easy. Youve been at it 10 years, you had a base to work with. Today 70% of all Americans use the net for service providers, 60% of those click on the top 3 results, in the organic search. Having a website is important , having a web presence is by far WAY MORE IMPORTANT.

What good would it be to hang the Mona Lisa in your basement.

FIREMAN. Consider my questions and this discussion , food for the curious soul. We had a previous poster who didnt know why he was in the top results. I showed him why, I also directed him to a sight so that he can view which keywords he is ranking well for.

Another thing. Combined TV, direct mail, yellow pages, directories, newspaper advertising, is not even close to comparable to the potential client list from the net. DOC, has got great info on his site validating this.


vick
vico-sal@hotmail.com
seattle wa
no business as of yet
about me: estimator/My home is run by women, 1 big and 3 little ones.
 
Thanks Doug,


vick
vico-sal@hotmail.com
seattle wa

I will give him a call. What were your results pre/post SEO? I believe this would be a great thread for all forum members as the info presented here wouldve alleviated a ton of mistakes for me pre-doing my own reseach. How well does he have you ranking in Houston-a big city? Would you be able to share some keyword ideas?

My results prior pre/post to hiring Pat are Night and Day. Pat built my site in about 3-4 days I think it was. Within 3 weeks of it going live I had recouped my investment and more from business directly attributed to the web site he built and SEO work he did. He gave me a couple choice's to pay a set monthly fee, I took the lowest amount for his continued SEO work. Houston is a very competitive market for our business. He encouraged me to take the higher of the amounts as it would produce quicker. I chose the lower. In the months March thru September I noticed I got several phone calls a month directly attributed to my web site. But was not real happy. Felt it could do more. Talked to Pat about it a few times. Around here I always experience a huge slow down in the winter months. In fact Pat and I had discussed even not doing anything in the months November - February. Instead I upped to the next level paying him even MORE MONEY and heading into my slowest months. Best thing I ever did. I have had the busiest winter months I have ever had. In fact I haven;t stopped.

I track how every single customer finds me. I can say without a doubt that I have always made every month MORE than what I pay Pat. Some months more than others.

The web site I had before this one, I got absolutely nothing off it. Tried doing it all myself and with a friend. Will never do that again. Like I said before, Pat has built me 3 web sites I couldn't be happier with his work.

Here is the best part about it, when I have a question or a problem, I call Pat and HE ANSWERS the phone. He talks to me and answers my questions and TEACHES me about all this too. It is so much easier paying him monthly so I can concentrate on other things like answering the phone, doing the estimates and doing the work.

The phone call is FREE, all you gotta do is talk to him.

As for ranking in Houston, I rank very good. AS for sharing keywords. The keywords that work for me here may not work for you there, but no I would not share that anyway. Pat, or whomever you hire can help you with that. I'll give you a hint though. You wont find them on those adwords or semrush sites. Been there done that. Best of luck to you, I was where youw ere at a little over a year ago. Glad I don't have o worry about that stuff anymore. I pay someone to do it now.
 
Chris

I didnt put too much on my profile because its not relative to the discussion or thread. I changed my info for those of you who want to know what it is I do. I am on here seeking info-merely that solely that. Ive been an avid reader to this and other forums for over a year. I am set to launch a new venture and am going back on mistakes Ive made the first time-such as not hiring an SEO company from the gate.

Approximately 70% of all American households use the net to find their next service provider. WEBSITE is essentially your salesman. I am looking for recommendations on valid-tried-and referenced SEO companys who I might be able to use to get me ranked.

I understand the ins/outs of SEO-the title of the forum speaks in and of my question: SEO COMPANY INFORMATION REQUEST.

You spoke on invalid SEO companies with a lack of ethics who promise the sky/moon, I am looking to avoid these SEO companies by finding reputable companies people have used.

The combined total of all marketing venues is not comparable to what you recieve from hits on your site. Ive started business before-I know the deal.

I am looking for 2 things from this thread.

(1) Referenced SEO coordinators
(2) Tips on things I can do myself

#2 is essentially a moot point as Ive been at the information pertinent to the subject for 100+ hours and am 100% confident that this is best handled by a professional.


thanks

vick
vico-sal@hotmail.com
seattle wa

You said it right there Vic, best handled by a professional. IMO dont hire a company, Hire a PERSON, you can speak with when ever you need too. If you have to leave a message or send an email and wait 24-48 hours for a reply...>RUN RUN RUN..

Hey feel free to call me if you want to discuss any of this on the phone. Be glad to help you out anyway I can.
 
I got a website 10 years after I started my business. Relying on the internet to make your business grow is a way to go out of business quickly. This Vic guy is asking a lot of questions for someone who want even fill out a signature.

All depends on where you live I guess. If it wasn't for my web site, I wouldn't be posting here.
 
Thanks Doc,

I appreciate your response. I believe its best left to a professional. Especially if you dont have months to spend learning it. Its quite the process, anyone who doesnt believe or understand the prices charged for SEO need take a look at what goes into making a company rank tops.

Back Links to viable sites, peppering your site with keywords but not too much, association links, a system of linking based on scales, your actual physical address, keyword specific URLS when the vast majority of them have been purchased or are 50-100x the cost of a regualr URL.


Doc, one of my previous questions was how important it is to have the actual domain name your keyword target is. How much does it matter whether that keyword-is-hyphenated.com ?

Also your site says it takes 4 months to see results? could you explain . Ive read similiar. How long does it take a purchased domain name to start being linked to your site in searches. Say I bought www.pressurewashingseattle.com would it start coming up top results for simple having those keywords?
 
Comes down to business model. If someone thinks they can start a business nowadays without any advertising I'd be impressed. Its one thing if you've been around a long time to rely on word of mouth but not if you never washed anything before. More and more customers look online for reassurance on who they hire. Even more so for some customers if you don't have a website you might as well not exist.

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+1000000 It wasnt long ago if you didnt have a Yellow PAge ad you might as well not have existed. They not only look inline because it's reassuring, they also look online cause it's convenient. MOst everyone has access to a computer either or at home or work, or both. Or know someone that does.
 
Okay. 10 years ago the world was an entirely different place. I also see this occupation for yu is part time. OFF DUTY FIREMAN. Youve also been at it 10 years. If you read my previous post on signature you wouldve answered that question for yourself. Since this is the 2nd time Ive heard it -Ill say it again, I dont own a business. YET. I am posting as a interested party looking for answers. If thats okay with you? Now supplementing your income is great. Coming into ANY business today without (1) branding (2) an internet presence is just an impossibility.

Asking alot of questions is (1) whats needed for validation (2) asking if people have used the SEO companies is the best method I know to see how good their results are.

A compare and contrast , between yourself and I is really easy. Youve been at it 10 years, you had a base to work with. Today 70% of all Americans use the net for service providers, 60% of those click on the top 3 results, in the organic search. Having a website is important , having a web presence is by far WAY MORE IMPORTANT.

What good would it be to hang the Mona Lisa in your basement.

FIREMAN. Consider my questions and this discussion , food for the curious soul. We had a previous poster who didnt know why he was in the top results. I showed him why, I also directed him to a sight so that he can view which keywords he is ranking well for.

Another thing. Combined TV, direct mail, yellow pages, directories, newspaper advertising, is not even close to comparable to the potential client list from the net. DOC, has got great info on his site validating this.


vick
vico-sal@hotmail.com
seattle wa
no business as of yet
about me: estimator/My home is run by women, 1 big and 3 little ones.

Maybe I didn't come across well. You don't have a signature. It is one of the things required here. You keep posting different ones but they never stay consistant. If I was in Seattle I would want to know you were there too before I offered advise to the competition. I don't do this as supplemental income. It is my full time job and full time job for all the guys on my payroll. I would not want business from the 70% you say use the internet to look for contractors. Those are the same types that use email and send text messages. I can live without that.
 
Maybe I didn't come across well. You don't have a signature. It is one of the things required here. You keep posting different ones but they never stay consistant. If I was in Seattle I would want to know you were there too before I offered advise to the competition. I don't do this as supplemental income. It is my full time job and full time job for all the guys on my payroll. I would not want business from the 70% you say use the internet to look for contractors. Those are the same types that use email and send text messages. I can live without that.

Curmudgeon. :cool:
 
offdutyfireman

I looked thru the threads and couldnt find anything anywhere on how to fill out a signature. I understand the rules, now. I am a new poster and wasnt familiar with them from the begining. There should be a thread entitled how to post your required signature. I had to go thru and find out how to do it on my own. If this message doesnt contain a signature its because I couldnt get the lats one to stick and I didnt do something right. If it does contain a permanant signature well then we can chalk up this discussion and get back to SEO.

thanks!
 
Tre,

Bare with him - Hes found what works for him and it keeps him busy.

Going over some statistics on SEO effectiveness and educating him and others would be a better way to go about it then name calling. Curmudgeon: stubborn and bad tempered.

How do you effectively deal with a stubborn customer who doesnt realize the benefit of sealing his deck after having it washed?

The facts:

200 million Americans use the net
70% of all online customers (e-commerce) are the highest paid-highest educated 3% of Americas wealthy
The cost of PAY PER CLICK ADVERTISING has gone up 100% since 2005. Only 7% of those clicks become consumers
60% of all people looking for a service clicked on the top 3 organic searches.
Up to 68% of Americans use google to look up anything
Google changes it SEO algorithims 600+ times a year



So what does all that mean in English? People are finding people to do business with on the net. If you dont have a web presence your out the game up to 70% of the time. I most assuredly wouldnt tip my hat to an oppurtunity to have upwards of 70% more clients ( random analysis!)

What the above numbers also mean is that advertising is expensive and only going up on costs-a keyword advertisment of PRESSUREWASHINGSEATTLE at the moment is costing $9 per click. With a conversion rate of 7% youd have spent $841 dollars to turn 1 customer for every 100 that lands on your site! Unless your selling power washing a deck at $900+ your seriously out your range!

So in summary SEO for its price is one of the best-most effective advertising tools out there today. Finding a reputable one is in and of itself a search beyond google.
 
Doc, one of my previous questions was how important it is to have the actual domain name your keyword target is. How much does it matter whether that keyword-is-hyphenated.com ?

Also your site says it takes 4 months to see results? could you explain . Ive read similiar. How long does it take a purchased domain name to start being linked to your site in searches. Say I bought www.pressurewashingseattle.com would it start coming up top results for simple having those keywords?

Just having the keyword domain makes it easier but it does not guarantee that you will rank at all. It is but one factor in the overall ranking scheme. Hyphenated is not as good as non hyphenated as that is an indicator as a possible spammer thanks to all the people attempting to make money with internet marketing. It is not necessary though because you can keyword your page titles and get that into the url. Take a look at some of the sites here and you will find that there is no reference to pressure washing in the domain. Doug is a good example.

I have some people that see results immediately and others that take months to rank on the first page. I have one personal site that took me 7 months to get there but it was against some very old sites with a lot of content. It is a direct correlation to what you spend, the more you spend the more work is done and the faster the site moves.

I was where you are only I did not have any money to spend and it cost me my marriage. I did not have a choice, I had to learn it. Once I did, I found that I liked it better and now here I am.

Pat built my site in about 3-4 days I think it was.

It is taking me longer now but with a few more customers I am about to hire someone to help out with all the little stuff.
 
Vic, web is only 1 way of marketing, yes I'd say #1, but don't put all your eggs in one basket starting off.

Since you haven't started yet there is more to do than web work right now, but it's diffidently a subject to get on top of.

Market Research, Market Demographics, Market Saturation pertaining to the specific areas of cleaning you will be targeting would be first on the list of things to do.

You're a reader, so start reading about SEO. First thing these books will tell you is that you don't need to spend a bunch of money having someone else doing your SEO. Keywords, Meta Tags, Link building, content, wordpress, all of this you can do, but I would say it starts with a quality website, and that is something I would leave to the professionals.

Good Luck!

P.S. William is a great guy and a good Friend....he's just a little cranky in a unique sort of way.
 
MHPOOLE

Congratualtions on owning all the premium domain names for portland-your business must be fantastic. Its obvious that your company is older since no one today could possible afford to buy or even sometimes aquire URLs like yours. Just how important is a URL like yours for generating new leads?

Is it even possible to rank well without them? I know many people use hyphenated versions of the URLs you own. I dont know if that works. If I were to purchase domain names as yours today Id be looking at 5-7k.

Vic,

Many competitors have tried with hyphenated but it's not the same. I am not going to go into tactics, or information on my personal companies, etc... But every job has a standard procedure. Research, research and more research. Then check and make sure terms are attainable and formulate a long lasting SEO plan. I will say that going after terms by search volume is worthless (adwords). Beyond that, the information is not discussed until I run a report on the competition. Then my client and me discuss a plan. I would say if you have other sites, or keyword domains I have many ideas, I have done the same thing with my own. Recently just launched another site, top of page 2 in less than 2 weeks, but I am not going to give details.

I would say give everyone a call and see who you feel comfortable with. Price may or may not be a concern, it's all relative and in the end it's worth it to pay more for a better plan. Good luck!
 
Hi Friend

I may be able to help you on this. You can visit Softway Solutions as it is an SEO Company Texas located in Houston .They will provide end to end SEO services and solutions. My friend was also looking for similar SEO Company and didn’t know who to contact for this. So, when he consulted Softway, he learnt how SEO Company would help in Promoting my website. As a result of this, he was able to generate significant traffic for his website.
 
The sub domain seattle is still available on www.pressurewashing.net
This thread is a little old now and you probably have done some SEO work and perhaps you are already experiencing good rankings.
Either way www.presssurewashing.net which launches next month is in no way meant to replace your SEO efforts to your main site. It is simply another method to occupy valuable real estate on the front page of the search engines. It is an opportunity to join forces with other companies across North America.
 
Recommendations for those that need information.

1) DIYSEO.com
2) PPC can and will drive traffic if you want to make the investment. Google recently presented me with a keyword search list within a 75 mile radius and the costs for those keywords. I did not purchase them but it was good information to have.
3) There is no quck fix to website ranking. However, with diligence and consistency one can develop there site in multiple ways to drive traffic. It takes time, history of site on the web, blogging, linking, and much more.
4) DIYSEO.com is a great website that will provide some valuble information and education.
 
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