LizWelsh.com takes Quigley Decks & Fence from no presence in Google to the very first page, very first result (in under one month).
In late December I was contacted by an Irish home improvement contractor based in Madison, Wisconsin, and serving greater southern Wisconsin. He had a website, but it was MIA in the search engines. His website was virtually invisible to potential customers searching for home improvement contractors in southern Wisconsin, a fence builder, or a deck builder, etc., on Google. In my research, I scrolled through to page 11 on Google searching for his site, to no avail.
The day after Christmas we met downtown at Espresso Royale. Over coffee I explained how I would research pertinent keywords for his industry and optimize every page of his website so that it would have a much better chance of showing up prominently in search engines.
One handshake later, I got to work on his site. I completed my work — which included an overhaul of his website copy as well as writing new title tags, meta description, and meta keywords (as well as some minor graphics work and analytics implementation) — on January 14.
Just shy of one month later, you couldn’t ask for better results. What’s more, the vast majority of competing sites that Quigley Decks & Fence shares the first page of Google with are directories of businesses. This is a huge edge over his competition.
A few example searches:
decks and fences southern wisconsin
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 1
home improvement contractor southern wisconsin
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 2
home improvement contractor cottage grove wi:
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 3
home improvement contractor lake mills wi:
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 5
home improvement contractor madison wi:
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 8
home improvement contractor fitchburg wi:
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 9
home improvement contractor middleton:
December 2007: not found
February 2008: page 1, listing 9
