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In earlier articles I pointed out that one of the most important points of SEO is time! SEO work is something that takes time to get results. Far too many times I received calls from people that are looking to get their rankings up to #1 in Google and they want it right now. So I explain that it takes time to build up a site to a point where it can do so and they either hang up or don’t return my email or they become a client.

I have found some recent articles that you could say support my opening statement and here they are:

http://www.ijpweb.com/100-ways-help-build-traffic/

http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/checklist.htm

http://netvestor.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-underestimated-methods-of-quality.html

http://www.prlog.org/

The last one is more a gift to you. This is a site that is an account for press releases as well as a good backlink to your site.

Just remember that anyone that guarantees that you will be #1 on any of the search engines out there is really a fool. A good SEO will go over how things work with doing SEO work on your site, how they will submit your site to the strongest search engines, set you up with local directories as well as directories with in your business arena, create site maps both for your site and ones that Google, Yahoo and Bing can read as well as setting up your business in the Social Media Marketing tools that will work for you.

Well it has been a few weeks now since I finished my site and I am starting to see some results with regards to the SEO work that I did on it. One of the main things that I have been working on is pushing up the sites ranking in my local area. This is being done more as an experiment to see if the higher SEO score is really paying off with regards to search engine rankings.

Well here are the results:

Google:

• First Page when you keyword search SEO Rockaway NJ
• First Page when you keyword search Search Engine Optimization Rockaway NJ
• First Page when you keyword search Website Design Rockaway NJ but this one is different and will explain later

Yahoo:

• First Page when you keyword search SEO Rockaway NJ
• First Page when you keyword search Search Engine Optimization Rockaway NJ
• First Page when you keyword search Web Design Rockaway NJ

Bing:

• First Page when you keyword search SEO Rockaway NJ
• First Page when you keyword search Search Engine Optimization Rockaway NJ
• First Page when you keyword search Web Design Rockaway NJ

I first want to stress that I really don’t see a whole lot of website design companies in this area so this is not like competing in Manhattan but I would still say that these are good results considering that it has only been a few weeks. What are the likeliness that someone is going to type these keywords, I really don’t know considering the size of this area but when I start to see some real results I will let you know.

Second thing here is the use of directories and their effectiveness with SEO. In the section on Google above, I mentioned that I would explain this and here are the results. There was a page one ranking but this ranking was part of the directory for the area through Google. What was done was I went to Google and did a search for local directories which lead to Google’s Local Business Center. Using my Google account I was able to set up my business in a local directory hence giving it the ranking mentioned about. Why do this? Other then the obvious reason that it put me on the first page, first line so to speak, it is also creating back links for the site. This is something that I am going to spend some time working with in the future and will be writing about it more later. From there I have found several other directories that are free out there on the internet that I have signed up for and place my site on to as well as my clients.

Again, this is a work in progress. SEO work takes months to bit because of the sheer size of the internet and the real results will be how many clients I get from my site. I also do not want to limit myself to the town I live in so future work will be done on directories for the County and the State.