Using SEO for your cleaning business

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a specialized process that involves analyzing your website's underlying code, architecture, visible content, and link popularity and making enhancements so that the site is returned more prominently in the search results of relevancy-based, algorithm-driven search engines (such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN). The best way to develop a sound search engine optimization strategy is to work with an experience search engine optimization (SEO) firm.

you are right.  how long they stay, where they go on the site and exit point are important too although most don't understand how important those stat reports are.  and confusing bots with potential customers is a big mistake.  hits vs visitors is also a misleading indicator.

My site is up 2300% these last 3 months because of it.

Search Engine Optimization, also known as SEO, is the art and science of making web pages attractive to the search engines.

The better optimized the page is, the higher a ranking it will achieve in search engine result listings. This is especially critical because most people who use search engines only look at the first page or two of the search results, so for a page to get high traffic from a search engine, it has to be listed in those first two pages.

So search engine optimization focuses on techniques such as making sure that each web page has appropriate title tags and meta tags, and that the keyword or key phrases for the page are distributed throughout the content in a way that the particular search engine will like.

forums are a great way to share experience and information. just remember to regularly post back if you can to help others out so that the boards continue to live and help others.

greenclean_adam wrote: the great thing about carpet cleaning is that it's still fairly untapped online so fairly easy to jump up the ranks with little effort. just make sure what you're doing is legit and doesn't seem spammy. if you find yourself doing something you think would google actually agree with this if they knew exactly what i was doing, then don't. increasing youre seo isn't rocket science, it's fact it's extremely easy if you keep looking at what it is you're doing and thinking if it seems spammy or not :)

I agree with you Greencleen, but we shouldnt really shout it as local competitors  are going to be harder to beat.
I am ranked for some sites number 1 in organic and google local. Local google is going to be the big thing soon, as there are sometimes only 1 or 2 spots above the google local so if you are in 3rd position infact you are almost at the bottom of some pages.

Optimizing your site can take a lot of time and effort. Plus you need to be patient to see the results.