New to the SEO game
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Hello everyone!
I am fairly new to this SEO game and it all seems a little overwelming. Let me tell you a little about my experience. I have been trying for a couple years to get the ranking up on my LawnAide site and it seems at times that I keep spinning my wheels. Ive been doing blogs getting links with high ranking sites and all the other stuff. But on the local search there are still smaller companies which lower ranking sites performing better that mine. This gets very frustrating. Is there any advise out there?
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Hi Russell,
One of the places I find very useful is the pro webinar. I like to watch them after they have been finished, this way I can follow what they are doing and pause or rewind the video. This allows me to try it out for myself using websites and search terms I know.
By doing this you get to pick-up on some of the experience of the presenters, that they have built up of years of doing SEO. You also get to find out about tools and techniques, which ordinarily you wouldn’t have thought of.
Even when the webinar is not directly about a subject you’re interested, they are worth watching.
K
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Hi Russel,
Welcome to the club my friend! I'm in the same boat as you and I decide to get the SEO process by myself.
The difficulty is that everything is gray, with severals "ifs" that change with the time. So, for beginning read the SEOMOZ Beginner SEO Guide. Second, buy several books - difference points of view will help you with your's webpages specifics issues. Read the blogs form SEO MOZ - to be always with the more update information.
This is the easy part of the job, the difficulty one is to put this in practice and understand for your business what is better. I'm almost two years studying and until now I didn't reach #1. Its a hard SEO world
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Hello Russell,
Have you created and optimized a Google Places listing? Do you have the Address micro-formatted on every page of the site? Is the company info the same all across the web (directories, local listings, websites etc...)? Are you utilizing location identifiers in your focus terms (in the Titles, Headers etc…)?
We just need some more info before we can offer much advice - I am sure you have probably done most or all of this, but it is best to start at the beginning, you know?
Thanks,
Vizergy
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