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Old 11-17-2009, 04:09 PM   #41
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has anybody ever used constructiondeal.com

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Old 11-17-2009, 08:30 PM   #42
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I have done a lot of research lately on SEO for my company website. What I have found is there are many companies out there that promise to instantly elevate your web presence to the first page of Google as long as you pay an up front cost of $1000 or more and then a monthly fee that's as much as $500 to keep you there. What I discovered is that most of these companies making these promises use "black hat" techniques that only work when you are paying their fees. Worse yet if those techniques are found out by Google you run the risk of being blacklisted. The way I decided to approach SEO is I hired a "coach" that is helping me redesign my website from the ground up so that it has a good SEO foundation that I can build on. The first thing we are doing is putting the site on a Wordpress blog. Wordpress is very easy to use and delivers professional results. I am just getting started with the SEO thing but am hoping to have my site revamped and live in the next 2 weeks. Good luck.
Just start right here;
<title>Keever & Associates</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="NoteTab Pro 4.95">
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has anybody ever used constructiondeal.com
Why would you want to share the 'lead' with 4-5 others in a dog eat dog fight? And pay for that privilege?

DO your legwork and develop your site. The SEO is 'free', so to speak.
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I signed up for the free service, took awhile
This company has as a lot of complaints and don’t see it going anywhere.
Looks like this company ranks up there with service magic and everycontractor.com
It’s too bad I like there format
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Why would you want to share the 'lead' with 4-5 others in a dog eat dog fight? And pay for that privilege?

DO your legwork and develop your site. The SEO is 'free', so to speak.
I think you are absolutely right, and that is what I have been doing, also flyers and ppc campaign, I have not worked in about 2 months though and I have been trying to get anything going, it is the first time, well the first year that business has been so hard
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Also I found a post not to long ago about some companies that they offer leads for free and then pay a fee for the actual job about 8-10% does anybody know anything about that? In texas ?
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Did you read the articles about long tail searches?
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Just start right here;
<title>Keever & Associates</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="generator" content="NoteTab Pro 4.95">
<meta name="author" content="">
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Thanks Tinner. Html code? What do I do with it?
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For instance. Btw, I only read the first sentence on your site.

<title>Keever & Associates, Residential and Commercial Site Builders</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="NoteTab Pro 4.95">
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<meta name="description" content="Puget Sound Builders and designers of mini-malls, large malls, and residential neighborhoods">
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I couldn't C&P that sentence from your site. Which is a part of the image....When your text is part of the image, it's invisible to Google. Absolutely worthless for seo. Since G can't see it, I doubt it can be found if you did C&P it into the search box.
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When I c&p'ed this, "Keever and associates" you did show up. But, how many new clients that don't know you by name will G that? You have to define the client you want and target that phrase.
Get a G webmaster account and use it. ( I have one I seldom use. So do what I say, not what I do, or don't do) Everytime I use it, my targetted, not general traffic picks up.
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Take Festerized.

'Remodeller'
'framer'
'carpenter'
'remodeller in NJ'
'hire a custom builder in NJ'

Which searcher on G do you think will be his next client?
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Did you read the articles about long tail searches?
I did that and I have been working on it, also I have been giving a name to all of my pictures, and gave title names to all of my pages
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I just picked up two books today
Search engine optimization and Google adwords for dummies today
I spent the last 2 hrs reading Google adwords for dummies
I’m learning alot
I also did some of my own recon, every tried clicking on the "cached" at the bottom of the add
All relevant keywords show up highlighted
Last week I started changing my wording on my site to match long and short phrases
My main mission is to create keywords on my site that work with relevant adds and google adwords
I haven’t figured out how to verify my site and extend my root? For relevant adds
Ever since I launched my site about a year ago I get about 3 calls a week for search word optimization
Pricing anywhere from $1k. To 10k, with a monthly maintenance fee around $160.00
Just sounds like a scam to me
Does anyone know what happens if you fail to make your monthly payments
Do they shut your web site down??
Almost like yellow pages turning off your phone if you fail to make a payment
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I just picked up two books today
Search engine optimization and Google adwords for dummies today
I spent the last 2 hrs reading Google adwords for dummies
I’m learning alot
I also did some of my own recon, every tried clicking on the "cached" at the bottom of the add
All relevant keywords show up highlighted
Last week I started changing my wording on my site to match long and short phrases
My main mission is to create keywords on my site that work with relevant adds and google adwords
I haven’t figured out how to verify my site and extend my root? For relevant adds


Ever since I launched my site about a year ago I get about 3 calls a week for search word optimization
Pricing anywhere from $1k. To 10k, with a monthly maintenance fee around $160.00
Just sounds like a scam to me
Does anyone know what happens if you fail to make your monthly payments
Do they shut your web site down??
Almost like yellow pages turning off your phone if you fail to make a payment
Yup. Sounds like a scam to me too. If you're talking about 'commercials' and google adwords, ads is spelt like this 'ad'.
You're on the right track. Optimization is just utilizing what you seem to already know. Natural traffic takes a while. Just keep plugging and do your own ads.
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"Pricing anywhere from $1k. To 10k, with a monthly maintenance fee around $160.00
Just sounds like a scam to me"
I bet the monthly fee is to pay G for the adword campaign. The $1k to $10 is for the Ferrari payments. Go for it. The guy really does need to keep up those payments. He can use the help.
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