This week I had a really great conversation with web developer Pam Nilzon of Nilzon Designs. We spent some time at a local coffee shop chatting about what we love about what we do.
And I was reminded once again that I really do love what I do.
I love writing. I love writing online content even more. I love SEO. I love writing SEO content the most.
Why?
Because there is such awesome satisfaction in writing content that has measurable value! I know that I’ve done a good job for a client when they start on page 4 of a Google search, and over the course of several months (yes, it takes time … it’s not an overnight ‘ta-da’ moment), they start moving up in rank. Maybe it’s just up one page at first. Then another.
The fun comes when I check on their website one day and see that, yep, ‘ta-da’, there they are on page 1! And if I’m lucky (I swear there’s always a bit of luck involved in everything technological), they’re at the top of page 1.
As an example, one of my clients is the La Conner (WA) Chamber of Commerce. As business partners, the Chamber, Skagit Marketing and Writeology have worked extremely hard to enhance the Chamber website’s SEO. And it’s working. Not only working … it’s REALLY working! We did our research, we used a few key phrases that we knew were hot, we worked them into our very strategic content plan and we’ve been able to measure our success over the course of the past year.
According to the data supplied by Skagit Marketing:
2011 versus 2012
Visits: 82,290 increased to 102,830
Pageviews: 222,670 increased to 323,793
Visits Increase: 25%
Pageviews Increase: 45%
Using the key phrase ‘Getaway Weekend Washington State’, we’ve jumped from somewhere in the page 3-4 ranking, to the TOP of page 1. Sure it took several months of work, but we’re there, and we’re making sure we stay there for as long as Skagit Valley tulips bloom in April.
I love what I do. I really love what I do. Especially when I know it works.
