Purple Widget – An SEO Experiment

Is it too late to help your website in organic search for the Holidays?
There are a few ways to answer that question.  First,  this is getting posted in mid-December so the answer is no.  Unless of course we don’t mean Christmas….there is time to improve for Easter or St Patrick’s Day.
But I think my favorite [...]

So I’m driving to work again today and as I merge from I-435 to I-70 (about 1/3 the way to the office) I see a Kansas state trooper will now be behind me on I-70.  So my normal driving speed of 75-80 mph will be reduced today to the neighborhood  of 70 mph (the speed limit on [...]

So I’m driving to work this morning and I notice (because I’m always on the lookout for such things) a state trooper sitting on the side of the highway with his lights flashing as if he had someone pulled over.  Since troopers are often like deer, there’s usually more than one I was backing off [...]

They are everywhere.  In email, on the web and on the phone.  My colleague, a fellow SEO guru, just got one of these calls that prompted me to talk a bit about it.  Search Engine Optimization gets a bad rap too often and it’s because of these kinds of scams.  The reality is that there [...]

Even though it has evolved from the single most important, easily manipulated method for improving search engine rankings it is still important that other sites on the World Wide Web link to your site.  It tells search engines that other sites think your site has value.  It’s a “vote” for your website.  And the more [...]

A corporate blog, or any blog related to your website – no matter the subject can be a great tool for your website and your business.  In fact, somewhat like purple widget, it can BE your business.
But no matter what you’re using your blog for, don’t neglect it!  Don’t do what I’ve done, stop posting [...]

And now, less than a week from launch this website is ranking for the term purple widget.  I see us ranking 4th in Google (which is realistically the only engine that matters)!
 
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Although Google is king, lets see how we’re doing elsewhere in just [...]

Interesting happenings the past few days.  On Oct 3rd I reported that Google had all 16 of our pages indexed, a few days later they had just 1 and now they have 4.  Odd.  I’ll continue to monitor our indexing.

Randfish a very well known name in the SEO world, has written an article at his site SEOmoz that talks about what my site, Purple Widget is exploring.  How long does it take to get ranked?  Bottom line, it takes time.  He points about that you can get ranked more quickly for less meaningful term – [...]

The entire Purple Widget website is now indexed in Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.purplewidget.com&hl=en
It shows all 16 pages that existed (before this post created a new page).
Of course we don’t rank in the Top 30 for the search term purple widget just yet – in fact we’re not in the Top 500 results, but it should be noted that [...]