Google Number One ( I want to be... )

Doesnt everyone? ..its remarkable how almost nobody here at all even knows what the words "search engine optimisation" means the first time you say it.

Yet about 50% of the people you meet here have websites, and 90% of those are nowhere to be found for their buying keywords in Google, and this is where our title phrase comes in..

"I want to be number one in Google"

.....Right : )

The lengthy explainations that then follow, regarding Google's view of the world, their relentless desire to present only the best content to their searchers regardless of our business needs, and their ongoing purging of spammers and tricksters is not for this post, but suffice to say people have some very strange ideas about how to make their websites rank well.

Ranking higher in Google is our speciality but with the knowledge (or the power of seo) comes great responsibility, and more than one potential customer has visably taken offence when we have politely suggested that perhaps your [insert Ibiza tiny niche website] is maybe not the most relevant results for Google to be showing for the vast majority of web searchers looking up **Ibiza** on Google.

..and that for us to even try would be unethical and would be looked on as search engine manipulation. (unhappy faces)

then we explain that Google shows mostly different results to everybody anyway, and what with personalisation, regional (countries) search, local business results, the new universal search results (Youtube etc) being integrated into results globally, so what they see and what everyone else sees will often vary widely, there is a mixture of disbelief and suspicion that we are holding back the special sauce from them.

Usually as always it's money that brings it home. Strangely, the facts about targeted traffic versus random "Ibiza" traffic don't seem to help, explanations that no-one can promise Google #1 anyway don't cut it.

However whats working for us is then offering a realistic quote of maybe a couple of years worth of work, involving the building of sufficient SEO content and good backlinks, and the likely incumbent costs are what actually brings it home that they would be much better off focusing strictly on their customers buying keywords, which we can likely get good exposure for a much more reasonable sum.

SEO as a business runs in phases, maybe you can tell we're in that stage of initial client meetings with a good amount of prospective new client meetings again at the moment :)

..Several of whom will be bursting into their (own relevant keyword) charts with new seo v2.0 sites shortly, and a few of whom have gone away to find someone who can "make them #1 in Google" :)

Good luck with overpowering the likes of the mighty Ibiza Spotlight, the authority site on Ibiza in Google's eyes, as defined by it's sitelinks and almost absolute dominance for Ibiza + anything, (not to mention wikipedia etc) guys,

...let us know how you get on. ;)

SEO ...It's all about the Waiting

Waiting waiting waiting... It can drive one slightly mad.

...For Google mainly, to find new links, to re-cache page changes, for hoped-for serp changes, for access codes, for websites to be moved because prissy developers wont give up their precious codes and would rather lose the client instead, for domain / DNS propagation..

for rankings reports (yes we still use them, unfashionable though it maye be) for diagnosis tools, for registration emails, confirmations from clients, oh and for payment.

the list goes on and on and on...

In the meantime we mentioned previously about moving from a horizontal structure and are currently testing different filenames, directory and anchor text structures for efficacy.

new page here: seo services - search engine optimisation - which is intended to form the backbone for our planned campaign of Global expansionism, both geographically (some countries names are just on our "Axis of SEO Evil" list and will be monitored carefully and appropriate action taken when required- India, USA etc you have been warned!) and onwards into the big boys search terms.

So tactical withdrawal and outflanking of the possible the -950 filter aside, the relentless march onwards continues..

SEO is a war people, a war where those who are the most patient probably have an advantage. But no war today as it's raining in Ibiza so we're all going to the Spa for the afternoon instead. :)

Dofollow for SEO Spec Ops Blog

Ok following Blog HQ's dofollow testing period we finally got round to taking the nasty nofollow off the comments here too. Genuine input is always welcome, and doubly so from people who get the humour... ;)

Comments will be ruthlessly moderated so there is no point whatsoever using your lame comment spamming software here, to be genuine is all we require to bask in warmth of Ibiza's linklove..

Also please do note ONLY THE USERNAME IS DOFOLLOW, comment body links remain disabled.

Examples of what NOT TO DO in comments kindly provided by numpty here: CQSEO tactics

and more here: Clueless SEO Spammers


We look greatly look forward to intercourse with you all... ;)

Google strips blogger blogs from SERP?

Over at HQ they made some big changes to the site last week and naturally assumed that as some of the rankings tanked immediately as the new pages cached, that they'd got the calcs wrong.

However since then the forums have been filling up with people saying their rankings have tanked across the board at around the same time.

And now a thread in Digitalpoint points out that Google's own Blogger blogs have been fairly rinsed from the index, and everyone's looking, and seeing theirs has gone too.

And, checking, our long standing #2 for *Microsofts Free Websites* search (see link for screenshots) has indeed vanished, and is not showing in the top 10 pages...

This is somewhat of a relief as hordes of angry Microsoft-loving mid Westerners have been making our lives hell with their Country & Western-loving redneckiness.

We are actually relieved to no longer have to shoulder the responsibility of being the #2 authority site on a Microsoft freebie gimmick we didnt think much of, aimed at pocket rinsing of stupid people, as to be fair the C&W loving Republicans deserve everything MS have in mind.

Check your levels but we suspect that if you had a blogger blog that was ranking for anything more than some random drunken typo about some div of a singer you can kiss that goodbye.

On a lighter note the SEO Malta invasion is full steam ahead, the boys landed last late night, indexed today and will be putting their feet up in your local in Valetta in a few days time I wouldnt wonder.

Malta & Gozo - Maltese Islands SEO

Ok so while HQ faff about with the new site structure for a couple of weeks after they broke it's rankings we're left twiddling our thumbs as our big pushes have been halted for a bit.

so a few of the lads are going to jump one of the rigid raiders and zip across the Med to get stuck into some SEO in Malta & Gozo in the downtime.

we've got some mates over there @ maltese property finders and are going to be launching their new full site very shortly.

watch this space.

SWIDs - Free Websites

A while back we wrote about Microsoft's free websites. Turns out theyre alright in a funny wysiwhyg kind of way.

Final update on the Microsoft free website trilogy is here. ..but over at HQ they've been talking to SWID Ibiza about their free (gratis!) flash websites and we think they're much better.

So we're going to try a little test with interlinking and dropouts and see if we can leverage the strength this blog has for "Microsoft's Free Websites" in Google.es..

(see obligatory screenshot :)


and see if we can't put our Ibiza based Flash design partner right alongside Microsoft themselves with a better free website offer :)

Unfortunately for all of our American Mid-West readers with a considerable interest in this subject, these websites are currently only available in Ibiza, as you have to attend a presentation and register.

However as we have also heard nothing with regards to the surrender and renunciation required here Attention America!! our troops over on Mount Superior Small Business have decided that youre obviously not coming, wound in the drawbridge and you've lost it for good now.

They'll be just cosying up to your girlies and stroking your puppies right about now...

Attention America!!

Errr...

...was someone talking when they should have been listening again ? does this ring any bells from just the previous post?

...since taking the town of "Superior" in the USA siege, during the ongoing superior seo services campaign, which is showing most clearly in the Google ** Superior Small Business ** search

..We will accept your conditional surrender in the above search at any point, conditions as below:

The immediate surrender of Dolly Parton & Barbara Streisand

Immediate & full renounciation of Country & Western Music

We must see at least 100 million hits to Ibiza Global Radio per day from the USA within 2 weeks or we will take your title search in the name of the Ibicenc SEO Warriors and laugh at you from on high. ;)

over and out.

???????

..well we werent messing about and we got fed up with your insolence.

Streisand and Country & Western are NON NEGOTIABLE and so we took it anyway.

We hereby claim this on behalf of the Ibicenc SEO warriors, and you should consider yourselves laughed at until further notice.

..don't make us come after Superior Business too.. you have been warned.

Google Analytics & funny things people type

Apart from being a fundamental analysis and feedback tool, Google analytics / webmaster tools is also a never ending source of amusement at the things people type, and the sometimes random things you accidentally rank for.

here's a few of ours and our clients hits from April that have made us chuckle.

• Us: Ibiza + fairy "nice" - #1
• Us: design fairy dust - #5
• Us: superior small? - #3
• Us: hq pleasure blog - #2
• Us: classy phrases - #2
• Us: blog horse march 2008 dofollow - #8 (..seo @ work :)
• Client: inhibriated dictionary - #4
• Client: nonsensical wonder - #12

and (un)surprisingly since taking the town of "Superior" in the USA siege, during the ongoing superior seo services campaign, which is showing most clearly in the Google Superior Small Business search

try search

we have also started to pick up some traffic from what we can only assume are people researching their business prospects in Superior USA .

..hola from Ibiza - America :)

We will accept your conditional surrender in the above search at any point, conditions as below:

1. The immediate surrender of Dolly Parton & Barbara Streisand
2. Immediate & full renounciation of Country & Western Music
   

We must see at least 100 million hits to Ibiza Global Radio per day from the USA within 2 weeks or we will take your title search in the name of the Ibicenc SEO Warriors and laugh at you from on high. ;)

over and out.