The Forum SEO Challenge...

The downside to being No. 2 for that is that nobody is actually searching on the keyword 'seo business forums' so it will be there by default only i'm afraid.

Not forgetting what seo is all about,which is (and im sure steve will relay the stats back soon) what the site got as a result of the seo activity; how much more traffic has it generated for the site and ultimately how many new sign-ups to the forum, over and above what he normally averages. Pointless being on page 1 if as a result you aren't getting anything back from it. Whatever you pay for needs to pay itself back to cover the return on investment and over that, generate further profit or value somewhere down the line.

Hi Ian, glad you found us

Amazing the difference an "s" makes!

Dunno how many people would google "seo business forums" but you can't beat a good longtail

I searched for 'seo business forums'. Which is how I found the site in the first place and signed up as it was number 2 in google. I then looked at this tread and saw for 'uk business forums' it was in position 10.

I was looking for forums that had a discussion section for 'seo', so I could have a look to see what experts where talking about.

Ian

I am glad I found this site too!

Longtails are important too! I tend to try to google a longer phrase to get better search results as sometimes just entering a word or two gives you a to big a range of results!

You actually said in your first post:

I have just found this site for the first time by entering 'uk business forums' into google and it was number 10 for me! But interestingly I googled 'seo business forums' and you are in position 2!

Hence my response...

I guess we can only go by what you write as being correct the first time.

None the less, the stats show nobody searches on it, nobody as in, its not got at least 1 search a day thus it's not an achievement of any kind. It's an achievement if it's got a lot of folk searching on the phrase, and who then convert.

Sorry about that! I did find it first under 'seo business forums', then found this thread, but I do take your point that if the search isn't popular and isn't competitive it is easy to rank high for, but can sometimes help as in this case.

Sorry for any confusion!!

Ian

Hi Steve,

Please give me a bit of time to do the report. It's a very busy time for us at the moment. I am actually travelling between Bahrain and London every couple of weeks (I spend my time between the two but moving back home to London in 2011 so have many things to sort out). My business partner has also had to travel to Mexico and won't be back until 1st December.

I will have one of my guys produce the report but I would like to check it before i send it to you. Could you let me know what email address I should send it to pls.

With regards the potential to move up more places in the search engine, I would say that there is still potential to move up further. I slowed down the amount of work we had been doing but will pick it back up again to give it a bit more of a push.

Blimey, Jetset SEO

Ahhh Bahrain, remember it well, driving over the causeway from Saudi to sneak a few expensive pints at the Sheraton

Will PM ref the mail address.

That is awesome, maybe you can look at my site dwguttercleaning.co.uk and tell me what you think I can do to get it on number one for guttercleaning london? Best D

Hi David,

This is just a quick response as I want to keep this thread as the SEO Challenge thread for ranking this forum.

If you have any experience with SEO it should be pretty simple to get your site ranking on the front page. From a quick glance, your main page seems to have the keywords you wish to rank for on it (though not in the titles). I would suggest creating a sufficient number of backlinks to your site (using gutter cleaning london as the anchor text). Send me an email at info(at)innocentadvertising.co.uk

Your site also looks like a site that might stand a good chance of ranking well in the Local listings (if your Google Places listing is well done that is)

Check out SEO 101 thread Steve put together, it might come in handy for you: SEO 101

Also, the design and layout of your site, in my opinion, isn't all that great. There is a sub forum on this site where you can get people to take a look at the site and give you feedback.

With regards the challenge:

Still no movement from 6th spot. Any movement from now on will be slow.