Comments on: Searching can be frustrating

By: Therapy New York

Therapy New York — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:45:28 +0000

I wonder why all business owners dont take advantage of getting an online presence. It would really make it a whole lot easier for the customer. I dont really even use the phone book anymore. There are a lot of businesses in small towns that dont have a website. I think that it would be good to meet with small business owners and ask them about doing a website.

By: bwelford

bwelford — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:03:37 +0000

This message is one that needs to be trumpeted around, Donna. Let’s all spread the word. 🙂

Yellow Pages provides only a subset of all the possible contractors since they don’t all have a listing there. The local searches done by the search engines don’t normally produce all that many possible suppliers either. So if a contractor puts up a web page as you describe with just a little bit of SEO-savvy, then they’ll be up at the top.

Now how can we get everyone talking about this?

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 00:09:52 +0000

Donna: First I’d get a Yellow pages and that will get you all the help you need.

But you are absolutely correct. I looked at an old friend’s site today for some optimization elements. His site ranks 5th in google for a category in New York City. So it could have some heavier competition because the region is so populated…but his site is very visible on the web.

It doesn’t take a lot.

Dave

By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 23:08:00 +0000

Well said scoop!. But in the meantime, I’d get a phone book.

Dave

By: Eugeniu

Eugeniu — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:45:57 +0000

Not necessary . I did a little time ago SEO for some local searches eg physical therapy I got #1 for lots of them but people don’t search for them (only a few ) and when they search first results in google are local search results .

But for a business model this is a $$$ making machine they (business owners) don’t know much about internet the company I did SEO for paid $40/m for webhosting for 7 pages of content with a few visitors per day 🙂 . Too bad I am not in USA .