New Experiment: “call center outsourcing United States”

by Seamus Walsh on August 24, 2010

09/04/2010 Overnight, http://www.callcenteroutsourcing.us moved up about 40 positions to page 11.

I checked to no avail the first fifty pages of Google™ results for the broader term “call center outsourcing” the site has was not part of those organic rankings.

To see the search results for “call center outsourcing United States” click here >

09/03/2020 update: The site is indexed. It is on page 15 of results

August 24, 2010

I was quite surprised to find the URL http://www.callcenteroutsourcing.us available, a quick google keyword search shows its trending:

I did the usual stuff, set up and configured, this time it took a little longer due the the “graphic images” that had to be inserted. I will have the “view post” issue as soon as possible.

As far as the errors on this site, either I have been hacked, or there is a database issue when I view post. either way the problem is not going to fix itself so I have to dig in. I am posting these details to because problem resolution is a time factor that you have to take into consideration.

This was a permalink issue, I re-entered a custom permalink as shown here to fix the issue.

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New experiment “modern patio furniture”

by Seamus Walsh on August 22, 2010

(I know this is getting a 404 page not found error. I am working a resolution now. Thanks for your patience -Seamus)

Steps taken so far:

1. Purchased Domain name.

2. Uploaded WordPress and configured.

3. Created site, database and initial layout.

Time spent 2 hours.

Total cost. $7.82 – Non-Thesis users must purchase license @ $87 for one site or $164 for multiple sites.

Site can be seen here

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Experiment 4- “customer management process” update

by Seamus Walsh on August 6, 2010

Updated 8/22/2010

Last month I met with the founder, his general manager and the IT director of a local sales, order fulfillment and CRM provider. They have been in business since 1995 and have several European “brands” as BPO clients providing them with all aspects of the customer management process.

They were having issues getting found and wanted a way to “sum up” their offering in a way that is “search engine” friendly. Click here to see phase one of the results.

Here are today’s results.

“Customer management process” search results on:

Google; # 9 organic

Edited 8/25/2010
Bing; No placement organic #1 organic

Yahoo; # 1 organic.

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My latest challange, “Content Marketing Platform”

July 19, 2010

Updated Sept. 2, 2010 Today we ended up in the number one organic position for the term on Google™ >> ______________________________________ On June 29th, I announced my latest challenge; I wanted to knock much larger competitor out of a number one organic spot. I chose those keywords for a specific reason, Crownpeak is using them [...]

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Google™ you suck and why I love you.

July 14, 2010

If the Google™ algorithm wasn’t complex everyone would do what I do. I love its elusiveness. Here is an example of how it keeps me up at night and its mystery: Google search for “go-to-market strategy United States” we are not ranked. Yahoo search for “go-to-market strategy United States” we are number one organic. Bing [...]

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More content – New Index

July 8, 2010

Experiment 2 – Content marketing platform I am still showing up in the number 2 organic position. It is still showing up with the old title, even though I updated over a week ago. To help trigger a re-index I added a new content page to the site on how to implement a content marketing [...]

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Careful what you wish for.

July 2, 2010

Experiment 2 – content marketing platform. It’s no secret that I use WordPress/Thesis for landing pages.   This morning I woke to the number two organic position for the term “content marketing platform.”  The issue I am having is that Google™ indexed the site on Tuesday and they picked up the original, first day title. Web [...]

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Woke up to 2nd page #19 spot after latest Google index.

July 1, 2010

Experiment 2 – content marketing platform. Here are the search results for Essex Junction, VT >>

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Video and the use of transcripts for SEO

June 30, 2010

Experiment 2 – content marketing platform. Today, I made a 5 minute video and transcript. I also sent out the following tweet announcing the site: Here is what the site looks like today: It’s not really fancy and I need to do some color scheme changes, but we are not looking to win a beauty [...]

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My new challenge:

June 29, 2010

Experiment 2 – content marketing platform. Today, I challenged myself to get another site #1 Google organic for the term “content marketing platform.” At the moment that spot is held by CrownPeak.   It is a very specific term, probably an analyst firm dubbed it.   Could the only value be self pride and the [...]

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Are you getting ripped off?

June 18, 2010

I started this blog out of frustration and supplier behavior seems to have gotten worse since then. I was tired of the sinister, the slippery, the sly and casuistic behavior of more than a few SEO firms and their shifty and shameless behaviors around SEO. I set out to find the cost for 3 keywords [...]

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The congruency effect

December 28, 2009

Done correctly the calculation of value for keyword marketing has the slope of two congruent triangles, although the initial cost maybe more expensive, cost and time associated to maintaining content for organic positioning lessens over time. The value of keyword marketing-bringing granularity to your companies value proposition Implementing an inbound marketing inititive is both art [...]

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Using keywords as part of your SEO strategy

December 24, 2009

“Inbound Marketing on a budget” is a keyword string, I think it is one of the easiest ways to get found and allows you to get micro-topical in a particular subject. Many companies try and to bury keyword strings on their website with hundreds or thousands of other pages, that’s not our philosophy. Our goal [...]

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What I learned about Twitter for Google™ rankings.

December 21, 2009

This morning I was invited to participate in another social media experiment, it’s format, a Tweet sent to #MonTwit with the following; “What I have discovered about Twitter”: my opinions _________ #MonTwit” The blog post below was one of over 100 posts sent to (hashtag) #MonTwit. This post received one retweet @elliotschimel. In addition I [...]

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The real life perils of organic SEO

December 20, 2009

The content quagmire; with content king and context his queen, by ignoring the site for 48 hours we slipped from the number one Google™ position. This real life lesson shows the importance of a solid content strategy. It also shows that results for organic placement can be quickly promised and attained, but without constant care [...]

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Day 3-adding a WordPress Theme and metatags.

December 18, 2009

Experiment results can be viewed on the right. At about 10:30 this morning, I received a Google alert notifying me of the following post; I took @joemescher’s, the Social Media Commando,  advice and moved ahead with the Thesis theme for this blog.  Thesis makes it easy to add things like metatags and creating a pleasing [...]

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Day 2- fine tuning for search.

December 17, 2009

Today a quick update, thanks to @greggbanse @ http://www.7thpixel.com/ for suggesting two tweaks that will help in search optimization. Gregg suggested that I remove “An experiment on… ” otherwise it creates duplicate content issue.  He also suggested some metadata and tagging. I logged onto www.inboundmarketingonabudget control panel and followed Gregg’s advice by removing the duplicate [...]

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An experiment on Inbound Marketing on a budget

December 16, 2009

I recently attended the Burlington, VT social media breakfast.  During the course of the 2 hour presentation an introductory price of $250 per month for a blog and a version of analytics was mentioned. After the meeting I spoke to two attendees who pined at $250 $600+ per month. You can start your blog for [...]

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