Joanne Musgrave

I would like to give a bit shout out to my dear friend Sergio who gave me the motivation I needed to tighten up the SEO in my little family of websites. I couldn’t have done it without your help. I’m now on the front page of Google for the phrases water bottles and water bottle.

All our web design clients will be benefiting from the knowledge and experience I gained throughout this whole process. Think I might have to put my hourly rate up

We’re certainly not on the podium yet, but I’m sure a Canadian Olympic Official will be approaching me soon with a bunch of flowers and a big yellow shiny sparkly object to hang around my neck. When that happens – massive sale on with FREE water bottles and watch the job ads on the Central Coast because we’ll be hiring more staff and shifting in to a larger warehouse soon. We’re surrounded by boxes!!

Shop Naturally is definitely, without a doubt, THE largest water bottle online retailer in the country now. I’m super excited. Watch this space.

And here it begins, the ultimate SEO challenge for the #1 ranking in Google for the generic phrase water bottle.

With 40,000 people a month typing both water bottle and water bottles in to Google, I think I’d like a slice of that pie. I will, of course, be backing my organic search quest with a paid ad campaign like I always do, but it will be interesting to see how I go.

I do believe that Shop Naturally have THE largest range of safe BPA Free Water Bottles, both in the Stainless Steel Drink Bottle and BPA Free Plastic Water Bottle variety – and last time I searched, we’re the only Australian online retailer to hold the entire range of Thermos Water Bottles in stock.

I just finished a gorgeous website for Hunter Valley Wedding Planner, Priscilla Moore, called Priscilla’s Events!!

This one was a breeze, someone else had created some some simply spectacular artwork, so we threw our marketing magic at this artwork and put together the site plus a little extra SEO for good measure. As far as Hunter Valley Wedding Planners go, Priscilla’s fantastic. Great attention to detail, knows all kinds of little secrets and tid-bits you’d never find out on your own. Well worth the look ladies

If you need help with a party or a corporate do, she’s multi-talented

This one I didn’t even mean! www.stainless-steel-water-bottles.com.au made it on to the front page of Google without me doing anything. Originally just an install of Word Press to have a fiddle with a paid template I bought (that I was having trouble with). Now if you type in Stainless Steel Water Bottles or even Stainless Steel Water Bottle, up it pops. I wasn’t planning on ever using this domain name. The Google gods have spoken, guess I’ll have to develop the content now, do some research, write some articles and turn this into a useful information portal about water bottles. God knows I have spent hundreds of hours researching and testing the bloody things. Perhaps I’ll save a few people some time!!

Who needs sleep! Who needs a water bottle??

Yours truly now has the top FOUR spots in Google for Stainless Steel Water Bottles. All hail the queen! But seriously, I’ve put a huge amount of work in to SEO for my websites, and my clients will reap the rewards when I turn the same success on to their websites.

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, I now have the largest Stainless Steel Water Bottle collection online in Australia. There’s so many, we’ve had to split them in to different categories. If you’re in the market for a safe stainless steel drink bottle, check out the different categories to help make life easier

• Stainless Steel Sippy Cups for Kids & Toddlers
• 350ml Safe Stainless Steel Drink Bottles for kids
• 400-600ml Stainless Steel Water Bottle for kids lunch bags, mum’s purse etc.
• 600-800ml Stainless Steel Water Bottle for sports & general use
• 1 litre+ large Stainless Steel Drink Bottle for big thirsts, hiking etc.
• Double Wall Insulated Stainless Steel Drink Bottles / Flasks

If you’re after a bottle for your handbag, go the 400-600ml size. For the kids, the 350ml drink bottles are good. Sporty types, hikers etc should choose from the 600-800ml or even the 1 litre + size, and if you’re going to let your stainless steel drink bottle roll around in a hot car all day or chuck it in your beach bag, choose an insulated hydration bottle. The Thermos range of insulated water bottles are fantastic.

In my latest SEO experiment, I’m trying to discover whether the average person types in ‘stainless steel water bottles‘ or ‘stainless steel drink bottles‘ in to Google to find my huge collection of stainless steel water bottles for sale.

So far, stainless steel water bottles seems to be the winner, but that may have something to do with the fact that I have the top spot in Google now (and 5 spots on the front page). I have 2 of the top 10 spots for drink bottles, but, alas, they’re further down the page and getting bugger all traffic. The further you get the bottom of the front page of Google, the less amount of traffic there is.

It doesn’t cease to amaze me how the large majority of people don’t scroll down to the bottom of the front page. For anyone relying on organic SEO results to keep their busines afloat, if you’re not at the very top of the page, you’re done for. Better get the cheque book out and put some serious dollars in to a paid ad campaign or pay a decent SEO professional a couple of thousand dollars to go through your site for you.

The guys from Cheeki Stainless Steel Water Bottles not only sell great products, but have managed to get some pretty decent search engine rankings for their drink bottles at the same time.

Just having a play with a new Word Press theme over at www.stainless-steel-water-bottles.com.au. It’s a fancy shmancy theme I actually purchased and I’m having a play with so I can use it for some clients. It’s a Studio Press theme, haven’t used one of these yet.

After spending considerable time at the #1 position for Central Coast Web Design, Net Percpetions rankings have slipped in Google. The frustrating thing about search engines, and Google in particular, is that they keep changing the game, and it’s a continuous chase to keep up with what’s going on.

I have just started an experiment. The search phrase we really want #1 spot for is Central Coast Web Design, as it’s the area where we want to grow our business the most.  Luckily, we own the domain name www.centralcoastwebdesign.com.au, so I have created a small one page website hosted on a different server to see if I can help boost our Google rankings.

More research, monitoring of search engine results and back-end statistics will give me some information on how Google’s latest changes are working. Search Engine Optimisation is tiring work!

Feet First Dive Nelson Bay recently hired Net Perceptions to redesign their website. Our brief was to give the web site a clean professional image make-over and boost the search engine rankings. With a great logo and a set of fantastic photos to work with, the artwork was a breeze.

Much of the copywriting on the existing website was condensed and re-written for ultimate search engine optimisation along with a few other key factors that were absent in the old website. Over coming weeks, time will tell how successful we have been. With little competition in the online market, I can see this client rocketing up the Google rankings in no time.

Shane from Feet First Dive was a pure delight to work with. If you live in Newcastle, Port Stephens, or heading to the bay for a holiday and you want to go diving with someone who knows his stuff and will make your experience enjoyable, Shane’s the man. You can take ‘full on’ diving courses like James has done in the past, or if you’re ‘chicken shit’ like me, go snorkelling! Even if you’re nowhere near Nelson Bay and love the ocean, go check out the website, there’s a great photo gallery on there.

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