Northwest Arkansas SEO

If you’re like us here at Northwest Arkansas SEO, you’re always looking for anything that will help increase the search engines interest and traffic to your blog.

You come here for answers, insight, recommendations and information pertaining to S.E.O. (Search Engine Optimization)…right?

Well, you are truly in luck because I recently was introduced to a site called Blogging Beginners and I’d like to share my review and some exciting information with you.

Actually to be completely honest and up-front, I was recently selected to be a beta tester of the site along with a select hand full of other online marketers.

Now, before you get nervous and think, “oh gosh, another program only for people or businesses who are already online and up to speed on how to take a business online;” stay with me for just a minute!

GOOD NEWS!!! THIS PROGRAM IS FOR EVERYBODY!!!

I must admit, at first I didn’t think much about it since I already had more than one blog up and running. I am no longer a beginner but after reading the page Randy sent me, I found out that they offered much more than the normal, you know…the “Go to blogger.com and a start blog – blah…blah…blah” that everybody is preaching and charging outrageous prices for.

Nope…this program is NOTHING LIKE THAT AT ALL!

The two long-time professional online marketers who founded this site not only offer and show you all the basic set up you’ll need for a successful blog, (knowledge that you’d have to search for all over the internet but they also take you by the hand and show you all those little IMPORTANT things, the ones that have been possibly holding you back.

Randy The Hermit (one of the founders of the site) is a search engine optimization expert and just happens to be our Certified SEO Technician here at Northwest Arkansas SEO.  Randy’s Blog is HowToBlogSite.com and you can get to the blog from here

He shows you how to configure your blog for the search engines. What plugins you should have, how to set up your permalinks, even how to find a niche and do your keyword research and this just scratches the surface of what you get from his background and vast knowledge.

Wizzer (the other founder of Blogging Beginners) will explain to you what RSS is, how to use it and how to give some one a bonus for signing up to your RSS feed. Then he takes you into building a list with your blog and why and how to use Twitter.

All the videos are easy to follow and they put them in a PDF format. I had never seen videos in a PDF file before.   I had to upgrade my PDF reader to watch them but that was a piece of cake and if you don’t know how…THEY’LL SHOW YOU!

I LOVE working with videos in this way, you will too!  All the resources are right under the video and just a click away and the best part is, if you want to watch something from the 29th minute of a 40 minute video you don’t have to wait for the whole video to download again. You just open it up and go to the spot you want by dragging the control bar. They have a video online that shows you how to do this.

They also provide you with content for your blog and we all know how important content is…right?

Every month they give you ten new niches you can choose to work with and twenty five posts for each niche which can save you a lot of work.

I thought I was an experienced blogger and SEO Consultant but I was amazed when I opened their Fast Start Guide and went through it quickly and I was surprised at what I didn’t know and was able to add to my knowledge base.

I was also surprised at the guidance,  they WILL take you from knowing nothing to having your own blog up and running, optimized for the search engines and customized for you in an easy to follow step by step process.

But I haven’t even told you the best part!!

If you are like me you have probably purchased a few other courses and you get part way through them and you get stuck because there is something you don’t quite understand. Frustrating isn’t it? The worse part is you go to the people that sold you the course and you ask them and all they do is try to sell you something else.

Blogging Beginners will answer YOUR questions. That’s right as part of the membership you can request videos on anything that has to do with your blog and they will provide them not only for you but for all the members. So maybe you had a question and didn’t ask it the solution might show up because another member asked.

Now you are probably thinking this is another one of the $500 per month coaching services…

…Well, it is but it won’t cost you anywhere near $500 per month it won’t even cost you $100 per month or even $50 per month.

But because they do answer your questions membership is limited, they can’t answer 1000’s of question per week.

BECAUSE OF THIS, I highly recommend that if you’re serious about starting a Search Engine – Optimized Blog, a blog you can make money with,  you should sign up RIGHT NOW while you can GET a membership at their unbelievable price.

Thanks for reading and visiting Northwest Arkansas SEO.

Sincerely yours,

Blogging Beginners MEMBER,

David Schaible

If you’re a small business owner either new or well established – local to N.W. Arkansas or half way across the globe… you’ve landed here for one of the following reasons:

You realize the importance of properly preparing your web site for the search engines through Search Engine Optimization.

Maybe you find yourself here because you’re finally ready to take your business online for the first time. Maybe sales are down or your tired of shelling out big bucks toward worthless local advertising and you want to take advantage of Free-organic local search advertising.

Or you’re ready to breakaway from a cheesy, limited cookie cutter website in a box that you were tricked into buying years ago and have finally had enough of the high monthly costs, limited ability and the lack of support.

If you’re hear for any of those reason, you’ve landed at the right web site.

For this specific article we will be discussing a few facts about web hosting and why we believe that if you’re really serious about getting your business online, you should consider owning your very own web hosting package.

When I was writing this article, I remembered a discussion that I had with our lead certified S E O technician about what Northwest Arkansas S E O should offer as far as services and the topic of Web hosting surfaced.

I already knew what I thought about offering it but I waited eagerly to see and hear if my technician agreed…and he did.

Here’s an excerpt of our conversation:

“when it comes to offering services I have found that it is in the best interest of the company and it’s clients to stick to what we are all about, SEO, optimization of web sites. Do one thing, offer one service and then guide our clients in the right direction when it comes to all the other components necessary to own and operate a profitable online business.

A company that claims they can be everything to everybody is normally just blowing smoke. If you spread yourself so thin and try to be an “all-in-one-company,” you won’t be able to put all of your time and energy into what you do best, SEO.

On another note: sure, we could offer hosting and just set up an account for them. Charge them a monthly fee and put
them on as an add on domain. But I would tell you from my experience of over 12 years online…that I personally think it isn’t a good idea and it isn’t in the best interest of our clients to allow them to put all their eggs in one basket.

Why? Because in most situations here’s how it works. A company that offers hosting to their clients will actually just have rights to offer one of three hosting packages. Shared, Reseller or Dedicated. With all of these the client is added on to that companies hosting and that company charges a fee for adding their client to their package.

What happens is this, the client may not see things happening for his or her web site as quick as they think or expected.  So let’s say six months down the road they might want to change services? They are stuck where they are and it can be a complicated mess to move them.

Or let’s say they loose contact with the guy or company that set up their hosting (people working online can up and disappear, go out of business, get THEIR hosting account shut down, get their I.P. in trouble with the search engines for one reason or the other and any and all web sites that are under that parent I.P. get slapped and maybe even disappear from the ranks overnight! The clients site would then be locked up somewhere they can’t get too.

Not to mention, on a hosting package offered by a secondary company, support has a tendency to be none existent. Service, there is no 24/7 support. You must go through the company that offered you the hosting to get your questions answered. This could take days or they may not be able to answer your question and then they have to take the time to go through their support channel, the mother hosting company, and then get back to you with the answer!

The clients going to dislike this especially when they get charged for the time spent.”

So you’re probably saying, “what is the answer then for a company that wants to get their business on line but  doesn’t have a clue about hosting their own site.”

The answer is this, your very own web hosting package, tailored to fit your exact needs.  100% in your control and very, very easy to run and understand with 24/7 support center that can and will answer any and all questions and concerns AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE!

Don’t worry, it’s not as big and scary as you may have been led to believe!

The web hosting we use and highly recommend to all of our clients is HostGator.

Just this month, HostGator was named the 239th fastest
growing privately-owned company in the U.S. on the Inc.
500|5000 list for 2009.

New to Web Hosting?

Not a problem, you can even build a professional website in minutes, with out any web hosting experience if you want. Choose from over 4,500 templates!

Coming from another host?

We know how difficult it can be moving to another web host. Get an account with HostGator and they’ll handle the entire process for you.

* – Free Domain Transfer
* – Free File Transfers
* – Free Database Transfers
* – Free Script Transfers

It’s worth considering and there are several hosting packages available to fit any need.

We want to see you succeed on line. You must start with the correct foundation which in our opinion IS your hosting. Then let us do what we do best…allow us to get your SEO in order with our Quick Start SEO Package.

You’ll then be well on your way to top rankings and free organic search engine traffic for your business.

We’ll go one step further by continuing our discussions about different questions that come up about hosting and using c-panel correctly. And if you send us receipt proof that you purchased a HostGator account through one of our HostGator links, we’ll find something special to give you in return for trusting our word about the whole web Hosting issue.

As always– please post your questions and comments on the blog.

Thank you!

David Schaible
Owner/Editor

Search-Engine-Optimization-Certified-Professional-on staff

Welcome to Northwest Arkansas SEO,

we’re glad you’re here!

Curious about SEO and what it can do for you and your local business?

Here’s 7 Search Engine Facts for Small Businesses

1.  Every day more and more people are using the internet to find goods and services.
2.  When a consumer looks for a product they haven’t purchased before the internet is the first place they turn over 80% of the time.
3.  Search engines aren’t just for worldwide or country wide businesses.  Your local residents are searching on the Google ® everyday for products you probably sell.
4.  Submitting your website to the search engines (no matter how many times) doesn’t make your site turn up on the top of the search engines.
5.  Most small businesses either don’t know what keywords are or they are targeting the wrong keywords.
6.  Most small businesses don’t take advantage of the geocentric nature of search engines.
7.  Search engines can bring people through your doors for little or no cost.

At Northwest Arkansas SEO, we offer top of the line Search Engine Optimization services from a certified search engine optimization technician.

Northwest Arkansas SEO

For a limited time we are offering our Small Business Quick Start Package to a limited number of qualified, local businesses here in Northwest Arkansas.

This package offers the following:

• Keyword Research and Selection ($1000 value)

• Page Title Tags Generation ($200 value)

• META description and marketing tags ($200 value)

• Geographical target market tags ($200 value)

• Main Content Suggestions ($200 value)

• 1 Custom Written Article & Submission ($200 value)

This package has the low, cost effective price of $499.

We know the economy is hurting a lot of small businesses right now and since this package will help you improve your business we are offering this $2000 package at a special downturn price of only $249.  This is a limited time offer and once we meet our quota, the price will adjust back to the regular price of $499.

If you’re interested please don’t delay, contact us now or give David a call at 866-881-0385 .