Search engine optimization and search engine marketing can help you get consistent traffic to your web site. I’ve been researching and learning search engine optimization since 2007 and I’ve learned by doing and producing results on both my own websites and my clients. Listed below are some of the success stories I’ve had with search engine marketing.
Bruening Glass Works
I redesigned the Bruening Glass Works site in November of 2008. The owner, Marc Konys is my uncle. Up until that point the site had averaged about 300 visits a month and got about 5-6 jobs off of the internet a month. I redesigned the site, did keyword research and implemented a content management system for the company.
Since that time the site traffic is now averaging almost 1700 visits a month. The client has made 28,0000 dollars from internet business from Nov 2008-Nov 2009 and made $4,000 dollars in October of 2009. Needless to say the new web site structure has achieved great results for Bruening Glass Works. I’m now also working to implement the same formula on Marc’s other web site: http://www.marckonys.com
Marckonys.com
Marc approached me in January of 2008 about increasing traffic to his site. At that time, he was averaging about 100 visits a month to his site. I looked at the site and decided to restructure it to be more search engine friendly.
Within 4 months the site traffic had jumped 400% and the traffic has remained steady since that period of time. I also set up a blog on his site which when done properly, will help with targeting search engines.
athenshub.com
I started athenshub.com in January of 2008 while in grad school. The goal of it was to learn how to get traffic to your site through SEO.
I’ve done no traditional marketing of the site and I get somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 visits a month. The most popular section of the web site is the rentals section. It’s critical for students to find off campus housing at Ohio University each year. The site serves as a resource to find the location and availability of rentals in Athens, Ohio
couponland.org
Couponland is a affiliate marketing site that I own and operate. I designed and constructed the web site using photoshop, asp, and sql server. I launched the web site in August of 2009. The site serves as a place for me to experiment with different SEO tactics. Despite being only 6 months old, the site is profitable. I’ve worked to both update the site and build links on a regular basis. The site also has a twitter and facebook presence.
progressivesflo.com
I created this site to show markers that they should consider the importance of search engine optimization in any campaign they create. I did some keyword research and realized that Progressive was not ranking on google for the character that they were promoting in their commercials (Flo). Since launching the site in July 2009, the site has averaged about 500 visits per month. That’s 500 people that are either interested in the character, the actress or Progressive. Because they did not factor in SEO into their overall campaign, they are missing leads. I’ve detailed the project in this blog post.