It is just twelve days since the Classy Cobs charity calendar web site officially launched and was opened up to the search engines.
And we are pleased to announce that today we have achieved twelfth position on Google.co.uk for the search term “2010 Naked Charity Calendar” – not bad for a little calendar from North Wales.
It is an achievement we are justifiably proud of. Normally, it can take months for a web site to get anywhere near the first page on Google. That is why so many owners succumb to the dreaded “Pay Per Click” to buy their way into the “Sponsored Listings” (Does anybody actually look at those?)
Worse still, they pay an SEO company on the promise of “Number one on Google Guaranteed!”. What they end up with is the Number One position for the search term “Joseph Llewelyn Bloggs Plumbing Services” as opposed to real world searches such as “Plumbers in Denbighshire”.
Search Engine Optimisation is not rocket science. It is simply a matter of getting the right key words in the right place on the web site. This very blog post is contributing valuable keywords such as Flintshire, Holywell and Clwyd. There I’ve said it! Including town and county names helps when people do localised searches.
YOU can help
The more people who see the web site, the more chance they will buy the calendar, so you can help to by adding links back to the site from your own Blog, Facebook page, or Twitter Feed. This also helps page ranking which takes incoming links into account when gauging the popularity of a site.
UPDATE: Just checked the stats. Yesterday we achieved our highest number of hits to date. 289 unique visits – and that doesn’t include our own admin visits. We can ony go from strength to strength!
