NicksWebWorks SEO

Cream rises… New Website Gets Top #1 SERP in Google and Yahoo

nicksharpe — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:42:58 +0000

Web design with SEO in mind is like cream – it rises to the top!
In this case, new client website mountaincashforcars.com ranks #1 in Yahoo AND Google for “sell my car Valencia” which is the key phrase the client wanted to target, in less than a week from going live online.

A Fine Example of Top Organic Local SERP - in less than a week!

Sometimes you get more than you pay for. He also got #1 for “sell my car Newhall” and #4 for “sell my car Valencia”. That’s the “Clean Code Advantage” web design strategy at work. Put it to work for you today!

Leverage your search engine marketing efforts exponentially with a website built on a solid foundation of clean html code, market researched keyword laden content and the compelling visual design necessary to get your website visitors to act!

Ask for your free web design consultation and let’s get you to the top of organic SERP today!

Mojo Risin’ – Top Organic SERP in ONE WEEK!

nicksharpe — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:40:21 +0000

Wow! Still got the mojo risin with new client Mountaincashforcars.com web site on page 1, position 5 in organic SERP, and we just launched last week!
More proof that Nickswebworks.com Clean Code Advantage still works even with all the voodoo search engine marketing tactics out there.

Top organic SERP in less than a week for a brand new website designed by Nick Sharpe

Most everyone knows that your business website needs to rank high in Google, Yahoo and bing’s organic search results because market research shows that 75% of people that use search will trust natural (organic) search results for their query. Anybody can buy a “Pay Per Click” (PPC) entry, but only the most relevant content can get your business website to the top of organic search results placement (SERP) and keep it there.
Who do you want to design your website?

Contact Nickswebworks.com for a free, no obligation web consultation today!

Still number 1 for “serp web design”

nicksharpe — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:18:08 +0000

One in a Million (or so)

Who do you want to design your website?

In the ever evolving world of Internet Marketing, it’s nice to know that some things never change. Like attention to detail and killer technique. A well built machine that can go the distance! The screen shot of Google SERP sez it all… and with sitelinks, too!

You can’t buy sitelinks. Its an honor Google bestows indicating trust and authority.

Who do you want to design your website?

Webdesign with SEO in mind for top organic serp.

ppc is temporary. seo is forever!

nicksharpe — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:18:16 +0000

Leverage your backlink strategy with strong “on-page” seo by nickswebworks.com. Give a turbo boost to your promotions like FB, Yelp, G+ and Pinterest. “Pay Per Click” or PPC ads show at the top and right of search results and can be part of your SEM strategy. However, PEW research has shown the ORGANIC (not paid) search results get over 75% of the clicks. How many times have your clicked on ppc ads that did not point to what you were looking for?

Take a look at this from Sept 20, 2010

NWW clients get top organic serp

The whole idea is to get top organic SERP. That’s the holy grail of search engine marketing. Any SEO worth his salt will tell you to start with strong “on-page” seo. That means coding html with the Clean Code Advantage, the kind of html Google loves. Then you do layout, color and design at the same time. Its all holistic!

SEO is FOREVER! Nickwebworks clients enjoy top organic SERP almost 2 years later

Great SEO web design cost way less than pay per click ads over the long run. The next screen shot shows dennisbuyscars.com and chequeredflag.com in about the same position, or better (from #2 to #1 is def better!) a year and a half later? how much did those ppc ads cost in the same period? You could potentially reduce your ad buy substantially by making sure your web site is designed with seo in mind.

Cheap web design costs way more than you paid for it in low to no serp and lost business. Not to mention paying an SEO your hard earned cash to go in and CLEAN IT UP to make it right.

It pays to do it right the first time

Contact nickswebworks.com now for your free web design consultation and put the Clean Code Advantage to work for you today.

cheers,

nick

Investing in SEO? What you need to know NOW

nicksharpe — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:24:06 +0000

When selecting an SEO provider, you’ll find there are a lot of them, but not all offer the same services – or results. Look for an expert, ideally someone with experience in your industry. And don’t expect immediate results. SEO is a process that builds upon itself and can take time to show value. If someone promises you immediate SEO results or guaranteed rankings, be concerned.
There are many aspects of SEO, but the two main factors you should know are “on-page” SEO and “off-page” SEO. On-page SEO is your actual web design, which should include the clean HTML code that Google loves, researched keywords that are naturally occurring in your content (that means all the writing, list and image tags) and the relevance of that content to text based search queries.
Off-page SEO includes backlink structures (where other sites “link back” to your website because your content is valuable, useful and of interest) and advertising. The advertising could be in the form of “pay-per-click” (PPC) ads in search results, social marketing (viral marketing – a scary term, but that’s what it is for now) and conventional push marketing (print, radio, TV and other media ad buys).

Currently, for the small business owner with a limited budget, the best bang for your marketing buck is webdesign with SEO in mind. That is webdesign with all the on-page factors included. Here at nickswebworks, we can’t guarantee your rank in search results (nobody can – if they do, they are lying) but we can guarantee that your website will be designed with all the on-page SEO factors that have got our clients at or near the top of search results for their market niche. That is widely known as nickswebworks Clean Code Advantage.

Nickswebworks creates attractive and compelling websites that rank high in organic SERP (search engine results placement). Over the past few years, our design techniques have taken brand new clients’ websites with no domain history, content or any backlinks to speak of to the top of Google search for their keywords (including “long tail”). In the past year, the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and bing are now weighing social factors into their search results. Like backlinks (think of them as “votes” for your website), social media “likes” and other factors are now weighed heavily in search results.
Depending on your budget, you may outsource your social media strategy, usually for a monthly fee. However, with a little advice and some education, you can do it yourself. You may find at your level of play that a full blown agency service might not get you the ROI you desire. That said, Nickswebworks will consult with you on how to set up your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google Plus accounts so that you can interface with your clientele on a more personal level and reap a higher benefit.
Contact us now for your free web design consultation and analysis TODAY.

Custom HTML5 and WordPress design – CSS tutoring and SEO by Nick Sharpe web designer Los Angeles

Backlink Mania and Organic SERP

nicksharpe — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:36:58 +0000

In the big world of SEO web design, voodoo still reigns. For the past couple years, we had success getting my clients’ websites ranking at the top of search results for their keywords by implementing semantic html and all the required “on page” factors, or what I call the Clean Code Advantage. That is a pretty straightforward, quantifiable process with proven success at getting top ORGANIC SERP (search engine results placement) for my clients’ websites.
Last year, there were big changes to Google, Yahoo and bing . Those changes threw a monkey wrench into the program. That, or my clients SERP competition got wise and started implementing stronger on page SEO. Using special SEO software, I “spied” on the top “competitors” to see what was going on. For the most part, the studies affirmed that your website had to have the firepower comparable to your “niche”. That could mean many years of domain age, hundreds (if not thousands) of pages of relevant content, but also plenty of backlinks (links from other domains that point to pages on you website).

Backlinks. Thousands of them! But not just any backlinks. So I’ve been studying all the experts and gurus, and they recommend getting high authority backlinks, like .edu or .gov or at the very least, backlinks from high PR sites. The backlink building process has all the tedium and requires all the skill of a master bricklayer, except every brick has to be slightly different than the rest. On-page SEO is all about research and design, but backlinks is all about a specialized form of gruntwork, usually outsourced to Indian seo companies that will do it for peanuts.

Now, there’s experts refuting that part of off-page SEO.
The type of link building Google likes is when you don’t really build links at all.
Here is what Google officially says…

“The best way to get other sites to create relevant links to yours is to create unique, relevant content that can quickly gain popularity in the Internet community. The more useful content you have, the greater the chances someone else will find that content valuable to their readers and link to it. Before making any single decision, you should ask yourself the question: Is this going to be beneficial for my page’s visitors?
It is not only the number of links you have pointing to your site that matters, but also the quality and relevance of those links. Creating good content pays off: Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and the buzzing blogger community can be an excellent place to generate interest.”

I’ve been saying that all along but do you find that advice a striking contrast to a lot of link building advice online?

It appears that everybody has a story to tell. What’s yours?

Soon… and Not for Very Much Longer

nicksharpe — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:54:47 +0000

I’ll get this bird flyin. stay tooned!

New Year New Schema and Your Organic SERP

nicksharpe — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:27:21 +0000

Happy New Year!
In the quest for top organic SERP (Search Engine Results Placement) for your website, a new “schema” has been added to the mix. Introduced last June (2011) by all the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, schema.org is a more uniform way of describing exactly what it is that is on your page, be it text, picture (image), movie, etc., ostensibly to make it more effective for search engines to find you. In the context of the latest HTML5 code standards, and implications for on page SEO, its very cool.
What that seems to boil down to is this – more code, more work and maybe more $$$ for a web designer? Probably not. What used to be a lucrative process for any web designer skilled in Flash, WordPress, Dreamweaver and all that to knock out a website in their sleep for big wads of cash has now been turned on its head.
iPhones and iPads don’t do “Flash”. That means your Flash website needs to be upgraded to HTML5 AND coded for the popular Apple devices. Market research proves that handhelds (including Android and others) account for a rapidly increasing percentage of eCommerce, so this has to be done, especially for SEO web design. And that is a lot of SEO code work!
Now, on top of all that, throw in schema.org and it’s time to get an ergonomic keyboard LOL! It’s extra work in the beginning, but so worth it in the long run. Proven SEO code techniques result in more page views, more click throughs and more selling opportunities than a website that doesn’t have the “Clean Code Advantage”
The bottom line for you, the business owner, is to make sure whoever is designing (or redesigning) your business website for top organic SERP is implementing the latest in code standards which includes html5, css3 and now, schema.org.
Don’t know for sure? Then help yourself to nickswebwork’s free webdesign consultation and let’s get you the highest organic SERP in Google, Yahoo and Bing TODAY.

Organic SERP and WordPress Migration for SEO

nicksharpe — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:32:09 +0000

lawdy.

Screw up one little thing and WP suspends or archives all my posts regarding SEO and how it effects your organic serp. I’m migrating the blog from the WordPress site to this here NWW site for the link juice.
This is the new NicksWebWorks SEO blog for 2012, a must read if you are a web designer or a business client paying for web design, because SERP is an acronym just as important to know as SEO. In this case, I use a definition I found last year:

SERP: Search Engine Results Placement

SEO: Search Engine Optimization

The term SEO is quite established and understood. SERP is less so, which has also been defined as “search engine results page”.

Take your pick, but Im goin with #1.

It has made me $$ in 2011. Do a search for organic serp web design and NWW is at the top. Longtail for sure , but being at #1 is best!

Who wants to be at the top of Google search?

Go to nickswebworks.com and tour the site. Then got to the NicksWebWorks contact page and ask for a FREE web consultation.

As regards the NWW blog, we’re gathering the old content and generating new, so check back in a awhile to see it all put together, where it belongs.

cheers
nick sharpe
323-960-5655

SERP and the “Long Tail” keyword – ignore at your own peril!

nickswebworks — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:31:21 +0000

Search engine marketing has taken center stage and SERP web design is critical to every marketing effort, whether your business is Fortune 500 or sole proprietor. That said, there’s been an extreme focus on “SEO“, search engine optimization, which means getting your website to #1 in search engine results placement or SERP for Google, Yahoo, and bing!

Of the many things I try to explain to my clients, the foremost is what they’re paying for and what kind of results they can expect. For those who have taken a keen interest in improving their own SERP, one myth has to be dispelled from the get go – just because a search term gets thousands of hits doesn’t mean it’s the one you want to focus on. I’ve seen way to many folks get anxious and end up wasting thousands of dollars chasing down the “Fat Head” keywords not realizing that research has shown they yield the least amount of hits.

Nickswebwork’s success for our clients implements keyword research strategies which include the following info. So, in the spirit of sharing and hopefully explaining my methodology (or, more specifically, where your money goes!) take a look at what I came across from SEO moz called “Beginners Guide to Keyword Research“. What follows is an excerpt regarding “longtail” keywords and their value:

UNDERSTANDING LONG TAIL KEYWORD DEMAND
It’s wonderful to deal with keywords that have 5,000 searches a day, or even 500 searches a day, but in reality, these “popular” search terms actually make up less than 30% of the overall searches performed on the web. The remaining 70% lie in what’s commonly called the “long tail” of search. The long tail contains hundreds of millions of unique searches that might be conducted a few times in any given day (or even only once, ever!), but, when taken together, they comprise the majority of the world’s demand for information through search engines.
Understanding the search demand curve is critical, because it stresses the importance of “long-tail” targeted content – pages with information not directed at any particular single, popular query, but rather simply exposing the myriad of human thought, research, and opinion to the spiders of the search engines. As an example, to the right we’ve included a sample keyword demand curve [ see orig post ], illustrating the small number of queries sending larger amounts of traffic alongside the plethora of rarely-searched terms and phrases that bring the bulk of our search referrals.

“ignore the long tail at your peril! Search marketing and website content strategies must allow for this “impossible to predict” form of visits or risk losing out to a more expository and prolific competitor”

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Simply put, the best SEO is real SEO. That means accurately describe your product and/or service in excruciating detail. Search marketing is people looking for what you have to offer. Trying to be clever and game the system can backfire in so many ways, like low or no ranking in search or super high bounce rates with no CTR (ask about that one!). Nickswebworks’ business started primarily as a word of mouth local web design company in Los Angeles, but it has been “long tail” keywords that have accounted for a good portion of 2011 revenues from clients all over the world!

SEO webdesign for top Organic SERP is the holy grail of search engine marketing. Realizing your most qualified prospect will come from “longtail” keywords will save you more money than you thought possible. Your conversion rate will improve with longtail keywords. The name of the game is RESULTS! Get Nickswebworks SEO web design to build your website from the ground up with the “Clean Code Advantage” and leave your competition in the dust!