morriscowley wrote:
Starting a web sit with very little experience is far from easy. It is not just not about having a nice looking home page but the work necessary at what they call the "back end" This where key words play an important place and really from my experience a specialist can be of help. There are specialists and then there are specialists and although the word may be the same some just take your money but give poor results. I spent several thousand dollars with one "specialist" and never got past page 30 on Google. Was contacted by a company in India who charged me $800.00 and after three month I went from page 30 to page 2 on Google. I was asked to write four articles about my product because I knew more about the subject than they did, they just worked on my experience..
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In today's world with blogging, it's very easy to get to the top of Google. Google loves fresh content, so a simple blog post a day can get you there, probably faster than three months if you follow a few simple Google rules, and much less expensively.
Also, if you piggyback on someone else. For example, I piggyback on WordPress. It's the largest blogging platform with hundreds of thousands of themes, plug-ins, widgets (and wadgets, gidgets and gadgets), and you can piggyback while still having your own URL. My photography blog is at
http://russelrayphotos2.com/ but I have piggybacked on wordpress.com, so Google loves me. I can publish a blog post and have it at the top of a Google search within hours, mainly because Google now knows that I publish "fresh content" at least once a day, usually twice a day, and sometimes three, four, or five times a day. Those Google bots stop by all the time, as indicated in my site statistics.
WordPress is kind of like Photoshop. It's the defacto standard so there are billions and billions and billions of books, tutorials, videos, and support forums for it. If I have a question, I can post on the WordPress forum and have a correct answer and many ways to accomplish the task in hours, sometimes even minutes.
Additionally, when you get indexed regularly by Google, other people find you, too. I recently had a blog post about SeaWorld that was picked up by a travel agency in New York. See
http://newyorkcity.yourtraveladvisor.info/new-york-city/go-arts-entertainment-for-may-6-12/ and scroll down to the bottom where you'll see "Mouse here for related links." I'm the first link.