I never used Home Advisor, but I used to use Angie's list. We'd get a call or 2 a day. It was pretty good. I don't use them anymore though. My current SEO guy cold called me out of nowhere and offered to send me a recorded video about my site for free. I said what the hell, go for it, and...
Domonick, that's good advice. You mentioned citations. My seo guy sent me a list a few days ago on that, so here's 526 of them! I paid him to do it for me though - no way I'm sitting there for 10 years filling out all that info on 526 sites :D...
Hi Carol, thanks for the comments.
1, 2, & 3. Yup, coming soon... This site went from page 4 to page 1 in 3 weeks. That's insane. But, he did mention he's not done yet. He was "getting this out there to get us going" - love it. There are 7 keywords we're going to rank for, and he's been...
@JTSpear I hear you there. I don't think you would need any changes though; I didn't. I'm probably not explaining what he did very well. I run my business as normal. My SEO guy just got way more people to call my company.
He redid my site and got it ranked higher, which brought in more...
@rockettree I would link to facebook, google, maybe even a twitter, but linking out too tons of sites takes some juice away from yours. I would focus more on linking from those sites to you. My SEO guy redesigned my site for me. I posted what we learned on this thread...
Fellow arborists and tree guys, if you're not at the top of Google in your local area, you're missing out on a lot of cash.
We redid a 6 year old site - www.albanyorganics.com - and hit the #1 spot in Google's organic search in 3 weeks (see the photo below).
Here's how you can get to the top...
@JTSpear Are you dead set on the sales commission route? I hired someone for the sole purpose of generating me more leads so our guys could expand from our normal area. It worked nicely for us because everyone likes doing the work, but no one, including myself wanted to start making phone calls.