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As I stated earlier we do not buy dead sites and redirect them. If you're in Texas you could search for 24x24 real estate frames and see us on page 1.  I've had a few orders from there and that is what they relayed to me when asked how they found us. You might also search for custom re/max banners and probably see us on page 1. We're the only ones who work with the standards dept for RE/MAX to assist their agents in getting the size they want and a custom design that is compliant with their requirements. Most other vendors, even approved vendors do not offer more than 2 sizes of banners.

We do have all of our directories displaying correct info, and I check them routinely. I also connect on social sites with online customers to tout their event, agency or business. A lot of times they reciprocate. We also support some local charities and have run contests for military welcome home banners. Trust me we're not sitting on our thumbs over here.  Building relationships is a huge priority.

Recently I've added diagrams, which appear to be linking to sites who love diagrams. To date we have over 3k backlinks when I started there were about 300. This shows what a bit of focus and determination can accomplish with very little budget.

I am having sort of the same issue.

Joomla plugin sh404SEF has a canonical field that I have been using as I can only code in the body of the pages in Joomla.  It makes the tag syntax:

<link href="http://customsigncenter.com/itemlist/category/40-soccer-banners" rel="canonical">

Some of them are recognized by Moz and some of them are not. Why would a joomla plug in create canonicals incorrectly?

thoughts?

Hi there!  Tamara here, digital marketing specialist at Custom Sign Center.  Great to hear some buzz about our company. However, while we are not owned by Yesco our owners do own the Columbus Franchise of Yesco right next door here on Valleview Drive and have enjoyed the backlinks from their site to help increase our search visibility. We are a family owned business since 1969, owned by Tim & Judy Sheehy.

While I do work hard connecting to people/businesses for backlinks we do not purchase dead sites with links to garner backlinks to our site. We do work harder on our local areas, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Ohio, Ocala, Orlando, & Cocoa, Fl.  These are locations where we have branches that permit and install our signs. Our manufacturing area is here in Columbus which is why you'll find us in the top 10 when you search for custom signs in the central Ohio area. You'll also see our Ocala branch, Marion Signs #7 if you're searching for custom signs in Ocala Florida.

I have only been here for about 8 months but during my time here I have concentrated on our main store Custom Sign Center. With very little budget to purchase any ads we've used Moz local to increase our visibility immensely with our corrected directory listings as well as using the crawl to fight off any errors. I am constantly connecting with marketing sites that have small business viewers, like fitsmallbusiness.com - I share their stuff, they share ours.  Also connecting with ongoing customers like Wendy's, Tim Horton's, Epcon Communities, Jerry Leggett's Peace Building Tour and the like for links and shares to benefit both of our company sites. And just thinking about the no follow links, even if Google doesn't count them, the traffic we get from those links still count!

Trust me, this is not something that has happened naturally, we work hard daily to keep moving forward. We've hit some bumps in the road along the way but we always find our way through.

this is all well and good and I am able to do these, but how do I keep Moz from crawling an index.php file. our site is http://4signs.com  no index file there at all so I'm not sure why it would be crawled.

thoughts?

I have been working diligently on these keywords. Not a lot of them but trying to get very specific. I have one that has traditionally been very high for our site and in one day it dropped from 2 to past 50+

when I reviewed the history I was unable to find any place to print or download the graph for the history or any place to print a report for our keyword rankings.

is this still the case, I was preparing to install it in Firefox, but already have it in Chrome and won't dilly dally if it's still not working.

tjw

Hi there!  Tamara here, digital marketing specialist at Custom Sign Center.  Great to hear some buzz about our company. However, while we are not owned by Yesco our owners do own the Columbus Franchise of Yesco right next door here on Valleview Drive and have enjoyed the backlinks from their site to help increase our search visibility. We are a family owned business since 1969, owned by Tim & Judy Sheehy.

While I do work hard connecting to people/businesses for backlinks we do not purchase dead sites with links to garner backlinks to our site. We do work harder on our local areas, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Ohio, Ocala, Orlando, & Cocoa, Fl.  These are locations where we have branches that permit and install our signs. Our manufacturing area is here in Columbus which is why you'll find us in the top 10 when you search for custom signs in the central Ohio area. You'll also see our Ocala branch, Marion Signs #7 if you're searching for custom signs in Ocala Florida.

I have only been here for about 8 months but during my time here I have concentrated on our main store Custom Sign Center. With very little budget to purchase any ads we've used Moz local to increase our visibility immensely with our corrected directory listings as well as using the crawl to fight off any errors. I am constantly connecting with marketing sites that have small business viewers, like fitsmallbusiness.com - I share their stuff, they share ours.  Also connecting with ongoing customers like Wendy's, Tim Horton's, Epcon Communities, Jerry Leggett's Peace Building Tour and the like for links and shares to benefit both of our company sites. And just thinking about the no follow links, even if Google doesn't count them, the traffic we get from those links still count!

Trust me, this is not something that has happened naturally, we work hard daily to keep moving forward. We've hit some bumps in the road along the way but we always find our way through.