How I got started.
I’ll make this brief but I am often asked, for various reasons, how I started out in SEO.
I worked for Hewlett Packard for many years as a Business Analyst. I left HP in 2001 and retrained as a Hypnotherapist. As I was always interested in the web and website design I built my own site, using wordpress, and then realised that a site without rankings was of no use whatsoever.
Therefore I spent many hours, plenty of experimentation (including websites that completely failed) and a fair bit of money (information can be pretty expensive) discovering the processes involved in SEO and before too long I was ranking in the top 3 of Google UK for ‘hypnotherapy’ and ‘hypnosis‘. In those early days you could get a top 10 ranking with good on page optimisation and just a handful of incoming links.
Now however the competition is much more fierce for just about every niche, however even though I no longer work on my hypnosis site I am pleased to say it still enjoys page 1 rankings for its main keywords, so it appears that good, strong historical SEO still counts a lot in the SERPS! (SERP – Search Engine Results Page)
Anyway, having had a fair bit of success with my own site a friend of mine asked me to do the same with his local cleaning business, and referrals came from referrals until before I knew it I was running a full time SEO business. So I’ve never had to make a cold call, or send out a sales email or letter as the business has always been there. Referrals are definitely the best way to grow your business!
Some of my clients have now been with me for several years and are rock solid at the top of the rankings.
I think that’s it, told you it would be brief.
Thanks….and if you would like to find out more about my services and how I can help you grow your business then please feel free to contact me and we can see what we can do.
Cheers
Mark
SEO – Video Evidence
Hi….just wanted to put a quick video up showing some of the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) success I have had recently.
If you areinterested in getting your site way up the Google rankings, then just email me your web address to mark@blogyourworld.com
Thanks!
Mark
List Building
Why Build A List?
Your list is your potential customers, clients, contacts and possible team members. Here are a few reasons why list building can be so useful.
- Opt In email marketing grows your business and leads to long lasting business relationships
- Ethical – Opt in list building gives your subscriber the right to change their mind at any time and opt out. This eliminates any possibility of spam or spam accusations.
- Announcements – send any news about your business to all your subscribers easily and quickly
- Automatically send updates to facebook and twitter
- Autoresponder – builds profitable relationships with your subscribers and allows you to welcome new subscribers
“The Money is in the List” is a common refrain from the internet Gurus.And this is an important point. ‘The List’ is basically your list of subscribers who are interested in what you have to say, or interested in the products or service you provide.
If you have a great website and you get a visitor, how do you get them to come back again for more of your quality products? The answer is in the list. It is ‘The List’ that allows you to communicate with your subscribers. You are receiving this email because you are on my list, and I, in turn, am on many other people’s lists. I am happy to subscribe to someone if they provide useful, quality information.
Having a relationship with your subscribers is the point you want to get to, so it is important that you provide good quality information and products. This allows you to invite your subscribers to your site again and again.
And this is what I try to do, I want people to return to my site many times, so I try and post useful information that will help or educate people. I think I manage this most of the time, but maybe some people disagree!
So if you have a website or a blog, how do you grow your list? Well the best service out there without a doubt is aweber service. I would recommend this to anyone. It has a double opt in (whereby you have to enter your details to subscribe and then confirm your subscription) and this eliminates any accusations of spam. They have hundreds of form templates and great customer support. Plus, you can also subscribe as an affiliate and build another income that way.
There are other list builders on the market, and it may be that you find one that you prefer. But whichever you decide to go with it is extremely important in your marketing efforts that you use a good, ethical list building company.
The money really IS in the list.
