I am often asked to show proof that my online promotional techniques work.  I saw, the “proof is in the pudding.” Check out the results of a recent customer, Jennifer Raisanen CPA, who recently started an accounting and tax prep business in Glenwood Springs Colorado.

I created the website for Jennifer (two sites, actually) in late November of 2010.  she had just relocated to Glenwood Springs and needed an online presence.  but building a website is not enough these days, and you are sure to find out if you don’t know that already.  you have to get people to link to your site, which the search engines count as votes toward your placement in their results.  The more “votes” you have, the better your placement.  I help you get those votes.

Here we see the results for the search “glenwood springs accountant” as of March 24.

Google Results for "glenwood springs accountant"

As can be seen in the image (click it to get a bigger view), not only is Jennifer in the local listings, but she is also holding the top 3 positions in Google for the main search term.

Now let’s search for the term “glenwood springs CPA“, and wow! Not only is she in the local listings

Yeah, a local listing and the top two places in Google, but look down the page:

Not only spots 1,2, and 4 point to her website, but placements 6 and 7 also are articles with links back to her.  She literally dominates the first page of Google!

Let’s look at one more keyword for her, one that is very competitive, and just now being promoted.  It is searching for the terms “glenwood springs tax accountant” or someone to do your taxes!

Although not listed in the local search (yet, we did not include tax accountant as a keyword when setting up the listing), you can see she still has the first 4 places in Google for her keywords.

Can I guarantee you the same results?  Absolutely not! But I do know that my online promotion and marketing techniques work in all industries and all locations.  It is just a matter of how many votes you need on your website to get it to rank on the first page of Google. Hire the Internet Guru and get top results in Google for your keywords.

According to Internet Guru Owen Walcher, Internet Marketing is a lot more than simple Search Engine Optimization, common referred to as SEO.

What is SEO, really? For most, it means coming up first in Search Engines. That is all fine, and having a first page listing on google is worth a lot. But how much more is it worth if you dominate the entire first page of Google results? And can that be lumped into SEO, or is there more to Internet Marketing?

More and more traffic comes to websites vis Social Networks, so you need to have a social network marketing strategy. The biggest advantage to this form of online marketing is that is it viral in nature and based on personal recommendations, so the good word about your business moves fast.  How far it moves depends on the footprint of your network (such as size of your email marketing list), and how fast it moves depends on how excited folks are about your product.

At the end of the day, the best long term approach to creating a sustainable web site is to build quality back links, which is definitely an SEO practice, referred to as off-site optimization. If you are looking to build your brand, business, or online presence, then the SEO and Internet Marketing Services offered by Ask A Friend Publishing will do the trick, at a fraction of the price the big boys want to charge you. No spamming here!

Make sure you follow the right steps in building your online business.  Step one is to have a solid performing, search engine optimized web site.  It always surprises me how many websites are just not tuned to perform well in the search engines. Shame on your web masters, who are telling you everything is OK because your analytics tells you that your traffic is growing – no doubt! but is it growing as fast as the Internet, or your competition? Do you own the entire first page of google results for your primary keywords? What about your competitors keywords?

It is time to step out of the box, and talk to someone who wants to help you grow your business, because we are serial entrepreneurs ourselves, having built and sold many businesses – it is what we do for fun! and profit, of course.

Contact Internet Marketing Expert Owen Walcher about SEO and Online Marketing Services today.