Comments on: if your web site is your store, are you displaying a “closed” sign? http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/ the blog and podcast presented by professional voice over talent Peter K. O'Connell Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:19:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: peter o'connell voiceover http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2117 peter o'connell voiceover Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:19:53 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2117 Rowell: First things first, if anything you're doing in marketing involves "settling", stop doing it. Your money is too valuable to waste that way. If you focus on free search engines (there are a lot), good and consistent keyword filled descriptors and establish lots of valuable link love where you can find it and where it makes sense (poker sites love to link up....don't) you should improve your ranks over time. And it does take time. That's some quick advice. Hope it helps. Best always, - Peter Rowell:

First things first, if anything you’re doing in marketing involves “settling”, stop doing it. Your money is too valuable to waste that way.

If you focus on free search engines (there are a lot), good and consistent keyword filled descriptors and establish lots of valuable link love where you can find it and where it makes sense (poker sites love to link up….don’t) you should improve your ranks over time.

And it does take time.

That’s some quick advice. Hope it helps.

Best always,
- Peter

]]> By: rowell gormon http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2116 rowell gormon Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:01:56 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2116 enticing begining, sir peter. but it leaves me wanting more of the story. from the first day of creating my website (i had nothing to do with the building process and don't pretend to understand it), we dealt in key words, variations on key words, tags, metatags, text vs. graphics and all the other things search engines were supposed to look for. my web guy even went to sites of other talent to see what key words they were using. and while we didn't lift things wholesale, we did use that as a guide. still, one can go 100 pages into anything related to voiceovers and never find www.voices2go.com, while seeing other talent's websites multiple times. at a certain point, making the site a good "brochure", as you so aptly call it, seemed to be the next best thing to settle for. so...without asking you to give away what you've worked to hard to achieve...how did you overcome the problem? respectfully submitted...from the twilight zone. rg enticing begining, sir peter. but it leaves me wanting more of the story.

from the first day of creating my website (i had nothing to do with the building process and don’t pretend to understand it), we dealt in key words, variations on key words, tags, metatags, text vs. graphics and all the other things search engines were supposed to look for. my web guy even went to sites of other talent to see what key words they were using. and while we didn’t lift things wholesale, we did use that as a guide.

still, one can go 100 pages into anything related to voiceovers and never find http://www.voices2go.com, while seeing other talent’s websites multiple times.

at a certain point, making the site a good “brochure”, as you so aptly call it, seemed to be the next best thing to settle for.

so…without asking you to give away what you’ve worked to hard to achieve…how did you overcome the problem?

respectfully submitted…from the twilight zone.

rg

]]> By: Peter O'Connell http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2114 Peter O'Connell Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:17:22 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2114 Mais oui! Best always, Pierre Mais oui!

Best always,
Pierre

]]> By: Liz de Nesnera http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2111 Liz de Nesnera Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:03:07 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2111 But of COURSE!!!!! ;-) Je suis une artiste!!!! Peace! Liz But of COURSE!!!!! ;-)
Je suis une artiste!!!!

Peace!

Liz

]]> By: Peter O'Connell http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2108 Peter O'Connell Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:28:51 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2108 Liz: I've ALWAYS been a thorny guy! If I don't ask the important questions, who will?! :) I think you're tag is pretty good but to coyly play off of the french, shouldn't you say artiste? Best always, - Peter Liz:

I’ve ALWAYS been a thorny guy! If I don’t ask the important questions, who will?! :)

I think you’re tag is pretty good but to coyly play off of the french, shouldn’t you say artiste?

Best always,
- Peter

]]> By: Liz de Nesnera http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2106 Liz de Nesnera Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:40:16 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2106 No, Peter....you're not wrong....just a thorn in our sides!!!!! ;-) When I first set-up my website, I frankly knew ZIP about SEO...oh...I STILL know very little....but somehow my website has managed to come up on the first Google page for the search terms "French Voiceover" and "French Voice over" which are important to me....it's a start! Now on to....."the most awesome bilingual English French voice over talent artist in the world!"....do you think that'll work? :-) Peace! Liz No, Peter….you’re not wrong….just a thorn in our sides!!!!! ;-)

When I first set-up my website, I frankly knew ZIP about SEO…oh…I STILL know very little….but somehow my website has managed to come up on the first Google page for the search terms “French Voiceover” and “French Voice over” which are important to me….it’s a start!

Now on to…..”the most awesome bilingual English French voice over talent artist in the world!”….do you think that’ll work? :-)

Peace!

Liz

]]> By: if your web site is your store, are you displaying a “closed” sign? http://blog.audioconnell.com/2008/03/27/if-your-web-site-is-your-store-are-you-displaying-a-%e2%80%9cclosed%e2%80%9d-sign/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 if your web site is your store, are you displaying a “closed” sign? Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:01:16 +0000 http://audioconnell.com/blog/?p=366#comment-2105 [...] Easy Fast Cash wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptPeople look at me funny for many reasons, one of them being my preoccupation with Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization. I personally understand about only 1/16 of the rules of SEM, most of the content being like Sanskrit to my brain. But I get its importance (both to web sites in general and […] [...] [...] Easy Fast Cash wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptPeople look at me funny for many reasons, one of them being my preoccupation with Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization. I personally understand about only 1/16 of the rules of SEM, most of the content being like Sanskrit to my brain. But I get its importance (both to web sites in general and […] [...]

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