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Advertising Agency Cleveland - What's Up With This Title?

 

OK, it's simple. You want to rank on certain keywords, put them in your blog or page title. In our case, we want to improve our Google ranking on the phrase "advertising agency cleveland". As of this writing, we are ranked #87, which isn't great. We have lots of competition, but how can we do better?

How to improve our ranking on Advertising Agency Cleveland

  1. advertising agency clevelandYes, it's cheesy to put the keywords in the title without some kind of context. Yes, Google will actually penalize you if you don't follow-up with an article related to those keywords. So write a clever article about the subject and include your keywords in headings (see above) and image "alt" tags (see image).
  2. Be realistic - do your keywords actually describe what you do? Yes, we are an advertising agency based in the Cleveland, OH area. Check.
  3. Be realistic - do you have any hope of ranking on your keywords? OK, we're starting at 87, so there is hope. If we tried to rank on "advertising agency" alone, forget about it. The cool thing is, as we start to improve our ranking on the long-tail keywords "advertising agency cleveland", we also improve our chances with "advertising agency". Maybe someday...
  4. Lather, rinse, repeat. One blog isn't going to drive thousands of visitors to your keyword rich page. Do it repeatedly, but keep it subtle. Don't try the same (some might say stupid) tactic that we used for this blog every time. Move your keywords around in the title and blog, try different word order and monitor results. As you track your keywords and page views you can see what combinations work best.

Let's see how we do. I will monitor our progress in ranking on these keywords and add them to the comments periodically, so stay tuned.

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Comments

Clever!
Posted @ Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:03 AM by Christine
we decided at the end of last year that we wanted to rank high for "greenville sc marketing" . By redoing our site and trying to focus on content we started ranking #1 after about 6 months. We just did the basics and made sure that our code as well as content were clean. Blogs, regular updates, and good meta data got is there without a focus on linkbuilding. we are now focusing on inbound links and targeting an additional 2 or 3 phrases.  
 
Stay on it and give it time. If you haven't tried it already use websitegrader.com to track your progress.
Posted @ Sunday, September 20, 2009 5:31 PM by jami mullikin
Update! I published this 2 days ago, and now we're ranked 76, a gain of 11 positions on Google.
Posted @ Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:15 AM by John McTigue
Update! Now we're up to 30, a gain of 57 positions, in less than a week!
Posted @ Friday, September 25, 2009 7:28 AM by John McTigue
Update! We're up to 23 today!
Posted @ Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:35 AM by John McTigue
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