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He looks a bit like someone who would want my son to come into his van for free candy.
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Pluto is an untapped market, wait there has to be life on the planet first.
This is what I want to hear so I can fix it or do something different. Anyone know a good SEO guy that is reasonable?
I'm not offended to hear how bad it is because that is what I need to know. I don't want to pay for something that isn't going to bring me conversions.
This is what I want to hear so I can fix it or do something different. Anyone know a good SEO guy that is reasonable?
I'm not offended to hear how bad it is because that is what I need to know. I don't want to pay for something that isn't going to bring me conversions.
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I'm sorry but the SEO guy I used doesn't take new clients. I know just enough to be slightly dangerous.
You'd be surprised how much free info is on the web regarding some of the most basic SEO strategies.
And here's a tip. Google a few keyword phases that you feel a prospect would search to try and find you. Then look at the site's on page 1.
When I'm using Chrome I can right-click they click "view page source." What that will do is give you the meta tags and page titles you're competitors are using.
That doesn't mean to copy them. But it points you in the right direction. Also, look at their site content.
One tip I can give you is to create a blog and start posting about topics relevant to what you're doing.
You'd be surprised how much free info is on the web regarding some of the most basic SEO strategies.
And here's a tip. Google a few keyword phases that you feel a prospect would search to try and find you. Then look at the site's on page 1.
When I'm using Chrome I can right-click they click "view page source." What that will do is give you the meta tags and page titles you're competitors are using.
That doesn't mean to copy them. But it points you in the right direction. Also, look at their site content.
One tip I can give you is to create a blog and start posting about topics relevant to what you're doing.
Check out SEOmoz.org and watch it for a week or so. Get to know who posts in response to forum posts. Then get in touch with a few of the ones who's ideas resonate with you and who are active and seem to know what they're talking about. If they're too busy, they'll know someone who can help you.
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There are some great free tools out there. Most will help a little and some are terrific.Of course, spending a few hours a day writing, link-building and working on SEO helps, but few will do it.
Re building a website...I still stand by the person that built four of my five. PM me if you want details.
Re building a website...I still stand by the person that built four of my five. PM me if you want details.
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The site itself looks nice other than the picture that everyone else mentioned, its so out of place on the page because of the stark color contrasts that it is glaring. The onsite seo is a different story.
Are you trying to rank for "Insurance Brokers" "Colo, IA"? The basic basic onsite seo without going into tons and tons of detail, is that you want your title and H1 tags to be what you want to show up for as a search term. You also want the keyword(s) inside the body text shown a certain % of the time.
"Save on Insurance Coverage" is your H1. That is probably not what you want to optimize for as a search term.If you aren't using your search terms you want to show up for in those locations, google is not necessarily going to see your site. That's not the end all be all of it, but it is important. You also need external links pointed at the site using the same terms.
If you did just those things, you could at least show up in search results for terms you want to target.
Google sees your site by reading the words in your title tag, your H1 tag, and the words on your site. Make those about what you want to show up in search for.
My opinion (everyone has one) is that you target the shorttail in the title/h1 on the main page of the site and longtail on the sub-pages, because of the way google instant works now. My site has secondary pages under the main page that show up on page 1 for terms that I specifically targeted. The biggest issue with this is that it takes a long time to get to the top of page 1 on a term like "Tennessee Health Insurance". Probably would take less time if I knew more, but I don't.
Are you trying to rank for "Insurance Brokers" "Colo, IA"? The basic basic onsite seo without going into tons and tons of detail, is that you want your title and H1 tags to be what you want to show up for as a search term. You also want the keyword(s) inside the body text shown a certain % of the time.
"Save on Insurance Coverage" is your H1. That is probably not what you want to optimize for as a search term.If you aren't using your search terms you want to show up for in those locations, google is not necessarily going to see your site. That's not the end all be all of it, but it is important. You also need external links pointed at the site using the same terms.
If you did just those things, you could at least show up in search results for terms you want to target.
Google sees your site by reading the words in your title tag, your H1 tag, and the words on your site. Make those about what you want to show up in search for.
My opinion (everyone has one) is that you target the shorttail in the title/h1 on the main page of the site and longtail on the sub-pages, because of the way google instant works now. My site has secondary pages under the main page that show up on page 1 for terms that I specifically targeted. The biggest issue with this is that it takes a long time to get to the top of page 1 on a term like "Tennessee Health Insurance". Probably would take less time if I knew more, but I don't.
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It's better for you to purchase a website once and then do not worry about your monthly payments that you have mentioned
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Also a popular option now is to have your blog function as your website. It's free. Wordpress has a ton of free templates to choose from that make it really look like a site. Google "wordpress themes."
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And now with local search results ranking on page 1 there's more to battle.
Google "Tennessee health insurance" and check it out. 7 local agencies hold the 1st position on natural results. Good luck beating that since Google is starting to understand that people want more local results.
So one thing you DEFINITELY want to do is register your business with Google.
Insane that you have all these companies employing all of these SEO tactics and some knucklehead who simply registers his business is beating the cr*p out of them for local results.
Welcome to Google Places for Business
Right now the local agencies haven't quite figured out that they need to register with Google. But they will. Today you can search "texas health insurance" and not see any local results.
Over time all you'll see is local results and anyone currently optimized for that term will be banished to page 2.
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And now with local search results ranking on page 1 there's more to battle.
Google "Tennessee health insurance" and check it out. 7 local agencies hold the 1st position on natural results. Good luck beating that since Google is starting to understand that people want more local results.
So one thing you DEFINITELY want to do is register your business with Google.
Insane that you have all these companies employing all of these SEO tactics and some knucklehead who simply registers his business is beating the cr*p out of them for local results.
Welcome to Google Places for Business
Right now the local agencies haven't quite figured out that they need to register with Google. But they will. Today you can search "texas health insurance" and not see any local results.
Over time all you'll see is local results and anyone currently optimized for that term will be banished to page 2.
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There is an easy solution.
1. Get a .com domain name that will work. Example affordable-tnhealthinsurance.com TN gets more response than Tennessee
2. Get a reliable, inexpensive 24/7 phone answering webhost like Hostgator or Hostmonster or BlueHost (not go-daddy due to possible compatibility issues)
3. Go to wordpress.net and look at free sites like this one:
WordPress › Free WordPress Themes
(click on image for better view and features)
4. Go to the site Fiverr.com and look under programming. About 15 sources will install for $5 total
5. Adjustments, for $5 a shot just about any dazzling feature you need can be done from there. Also look for adding pre-made features Wordpress has for free.
No more monthly fees. You completely own the site. Every time Wordpress adds upgrade, yours is free.
Good luck, and goodbye headaches.
1. Get a .com domain name that will work. Example affordable-tnhealthinsurance.com TN gets more response than Tennessee
2. Get a reliable, inexpensive 24/7 phone answering webhost like Hostgator or Hostmonster or BlueHost (not go-daddy due to possible compatibility issues)
3. Go to wordpress.net and look at free sites like this one:
WordPress › Free WordPress Themes
(click on image for better view and features)
4. Go to the site Fiverr.com and look under programming. About 15 sources will install for $5 total
5. Adjustments, for $5 a shot just about any dazzling feature you need can be done from there. Also look for adding pre-made features Wordpress has for free.
No more monthly fees. You completely own the site. Every time Wordpress adds upgrade, yours is free.
Good luck, and goodbye headaches.
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You really get what you pay for with website design, your far better off spending a few hundred dollars and getting a professional designer to do the site for you. A good designer will know SEO and will be able to create the site properly. Insurance is a very competitive field to rank for, so you have to choose specific keywords and then you will most likely need to hire an SEO to do backlinking work for you. I suggest going to fiverr.com, this is a cheap way to not get ripped off by the many different people who claim to do seo work. Buy a couple of gigs with the keywords that you want to rank for. Send me a pm if you want more tips.
Regards,
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