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Hi Guys,

Just a quick update. I was actually away for the entire weekend so I was not able to post here. One of my guys has done a little bit of work on the site on both Friday 5th November and Saturday 6th November.

We have seen a biggish jump in the rankings since we started. However, it would not be uncommon for the site to drop back down again before it reaches the first page.


The site started on the 4th Page, Position 37. After 3 days, the site now sits on the 2nd page of both Google.co.uk and Google.com (we have been concentrating on mainly .co.uk) for the search term UK Business Forum.

Google.co.uk = Page 2, Position 15
Google.com = Page 2, Position 13

We will continue to work on the site and I think once a few of the on-site changes that I emailed to Steve have been made we will see another jump in rankings. However, I don't expect to see much change in the rankings for at least a few more days.

I'll post back when I notice something has changed (good or bad!!!)

Just a little update:

One of my team had a look at the keywords that were suggested above and we have decided to work on the keywords 'UK Business Forum'. The main thinking behind this is that it is included in this sites meta tags already so we don't feel we have to suggest many on-site changes (this will make it easier for us and the site owner).

At the moment (4th November 2010) this site ranks on the 4th page of Google UK, position 37 for the search term 'UK Business Forum'. There does seem to be quite a bit of competition for this term but our aim is to get this site on to this 1st page of Google as soon as we can. I will let you guys know when it is there and you can discuss amongst yourselves whether we achieved it in a reasonable time or not (I think that is a fair way of doing it).

One of my guys might start doing a little work on this later today but to be honest I don't think much of anything will be done until Monday 8th November.

Let me have a look at the keywords first. I tend not to make promises especially when it comes to SEO as a lot of what happens is out of our control. Obviously we know how to improve rankings but search engines (especially Google) are strange beasts. I guess the first objective would be to get the site on the 1st page for which ever keyword we decide to go with.

If I can't make a promise on how long it will take to get to a certain position I will leave it up to you all to make up your own mind or ask others if what we achieved was done in a reasonable time.

Sure why not.

I am actually flying out to Dubai tonight but will be back on Sunday. I will give your site details to one of my guys and have him look at the keywords. I will then come back with some info on what we find and then we will start (early next week). If and when I can provide feedback I will post it for you all to see.

You just know this is going to blow up in my face!

H Guys,

I was wondering if any members of this board offered a sales service or were aware of anyone that offers the service.

Basically we are looking for someone who is able to sell our websites to other businesses across the UK. We specialise in SEO and have a number of pre-ranked websites in many niches across the UK that we are looking to sell (or rent is a more accurate term) to businesses within that niche and town/city.

We are far too busy to do the selling ourselves so were looking to outsource this to someone who specialises in this field.

If you are able to do this or know someone who might be able to help me pls could you let me know. It would be much appreciated.

Thanks

That article is so true!

Sometimes everything can be going great and you wake up the next morning and all hell has broke loose, whether it's because has done something crazy to their site or the search engines have made yet more changes to how they decide they rank sites (take what Google have done in the last week or so with local searches for example! aaarrrggghhhh).

But it's all fun!!!

Thanks for the warm welcome sjr4x4.

I need to gain a few brownie points so sure send me over a few keywords you had in mind and the URL of your site and i'll have a look and get back to you with one keyword we will work on if i don't hear back from Scootek today.

If you PM me a couple of those keywords that have taken you 4 years to rank for i will have a look for you and see if there is perhaps anything you could do to give it an extra push!

Hey RoseMary3,

It can sometimes take a couple of months for certain keywords to start moving. If you would like to provide us with the keywords you are trying to rank for we might be able to give you a bit more advice of how hard those will be (i'll understand if you would prefer not to post your keywords).

What have you been doing so far to try and improve your rankings?

A few things that really help are writing articles and having a link in the article or resource box linking back to your site. For example, ezinearticles is an article site where you can submit articles and they allow you to add links in a resource box at the bottom. The link should be pointing back to the site you wish to rank and the anchor text used should be the word you are trying to rank for.

You should also bookmark sites that have links back to your site. For example, once you ezinearticle is approved you should bookmark it.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

I am new to this forum but hope to become a valued member over time. As i am new i know what i have to say doesn't hold much weight (at the moment).

Me and my business partner run an SEO business and our team have had some very good results, for both small/medium sized local companies and a few larger companies (one of which trades in the UK and Europe). I would prefer not to list my clients here and i know a lot of them would not like to be listed. However, Scootek, I would be willing to have my team work on a keyword for one of your sites and we'll rank it for you. Then you will know how good we are and you'll be able to give honest feedback to the other members of this forum.

If you haven't found someone to take care of your SEO yet then let me know and we can talk further.