Why Seo Pays Off! The High ROI from Optimization

So I attended a meeting at a local telivision station of local businesses and an internet "Guru" Service. The so called "Guru" blasted efforts at search engine optimization as not worth your time.

"How many of you look past the first page in a google search?" he said enthusiatically. To which the majority of the crowd admited they didn't. "Do you know how hard it is to get to the front page of Google?" he chanted."Too hard!" he exclaimed.

Well those of you in the know should be throwing th "BS Flag" right about now. Even the most basic SEO programs will yield signicant results. For about 2 hours worth of work I was able to add keywords and descriptions to a website I was working on Donelson Furniture at a grand cost to the consumer of around $25. I had been doing some social media marketing for them mostly through twitter but then vacation rolled around and I didn't stay on it.

When I returned I found almost 90 people had visited the website from google alone. it is over 125 search visitors if you include bing and yahoo. All from 2 hours worth of work! One of the visitors is even buying a bedroom set.

So why does SEO work if people only browse the first page? Well truth is people only browse the first page when they find what they need. Many people (expeciially us web-dev types) have to look though many pages to find exactly the right site with the right solution for us. Second, just because your website isn't number one in an overall catagory (like furniture) doesn't mean that it won't rank high in a subcatagory (ie Office Furniture). Third, you can use solid seo technique to create a geo-friendly website that can bring visitors looking to shop locally right through your door.

If everything I mention above hasn't convinced you of the importance of seo I have four more points that will!

1. Two hours of Seo will not just increase your visitors for one week. It will have a profound impact on the total number of visitors each week of the year for every year that you have your site.

2. You can and should (SEO is not a one time and leave it alone tool) add to that two hour effort on a daily or weekly basis adding value and visitors progressively and organically.

3. If you do it yourself SEO is often free. That's to say you can do it in otherwise wasted spare time(I have no purpose when funiture customers stay home)making valuble contributions rather than wasting time.

4. Somebody always makes it to the top 10 in google and that somebody is making a lot of money! So why can't it be you?

To leave you with a final bit of irony. The local TV station (an ABC affiliate) actually found us origionally when their Ad rep. was looking for local furnitureand found our website from google! In her initial marketing pitch she even had printed and assembled "About Us" information that she had copied Directly form our website!

Let's all eat are Elephant's one bite at a time, by climbing the rankings ergonomically and taking SEO as it should be taken. Slowly but surely!

Back on Track with Css

So I am still working furiously on Crashcustom.com and I am specifically working on creating some webdesign templates. I will have some available soon. Sorry for the short entry but time dictates I must work instead of type, more later!

Welcolme Back 2010!

Hi Everybody, Few of you that there are, I am Back with big appologies, since I have been writing few entries on many different blogs. I realize now that that is a super dumb way of blogging since no one blog has enough content to make any of it's readers happy so here it is the new and improved AlmostArgonauts.

So what Blogs are getting combined?

1. My WebDesign Blog
2. A Chess Blog
3. My Crash Custom Image Blog(This was Just Putting out Images That I have added to my my Myspace Image Site
4. A Blog About Poker
5. A Blog About Pool(that I haven't launched yet)
6. A Blog About the making of a cooking podcast that I am doing with a friend.
7. Jasons Journal Moble which was my personal Random Blog.

Will all of these things work Out Together? God, I hope so! I guess will just have to see.

Release Day

This is the release day for CrashCustom.com free website give away. We are giving away web design for the first 2000 people who want it. At

These are all 5 page websites with your choice of colors, patterns or designs.

Add Meaning with Style! sIFR is the latest and greatest way to add style to your headers!

Welcolme to the beginning of something big. sIFR is the a web technique used to replace lines of text with cool stylized fonts even if you end users haven't intallsed them.It reliese on using javascript to replace text with flash style movies and it replaces those movies with any font you can dream up. I could tell you more but I'd just be repeating what I read from
.

So What are you waiting for? Check it out!

Are You Ready For Christmas?

Give your Friends a Website!
SO for Christmas this year I will be giving away between 10 and 2000 websites... Assuming I can get my staff trained and ready. So I have been Coding and teaching night and Day to launch the whole free website campaign and it looks as though it will be ready for the season.

I'd Write more but I don't have time wish me luck and
God Bless You this Christmas

Press Releases GO!

So Having started this blog as well as almost 10 websites...
I need to promote I as an amature am going to try to promote this blog in a big variety of ways and I'm hoping to find out which ones are great and which ones are not quickly and easily. So please help me out if your following and know more than I do.

My first Attempt is Press releases!

I have created myself an account with prlog.org and I realy hope that free PR's work but I have a few problems.

1. I have no idea what the best way to track feedback is?
2. I don't have enough time to retype everything thatI write on one blog or site on to multiple PR sites or blogs for that matter.

Check out My Cooking site if you like at Eatzu.com
I am commiting here and now that the first few episodes of Never Trust a skinny chef are going up as a podcast soon. Joey our cook is phenominal but of the 14episodes that I have I haven't officially published even one Yet. Guess that's why I need this Journal to pull my ass back in line
from time to time. We do have one episode online already so check it out and tell me what you think!

Oh No More todo!
So I didn't even scrath the surface of yesterdays todo list so by the time people start following this blog I want you to send me shameful messages about things that can be done today should be, But at this point THERE IS NOBODY FOLLOWING THIS BLOG. So I think I'm scott free.

If you find yourself reading this please tell others about me or tell me about your blogs and websites as I am a big fan of link and blog exchanges and as I get more settled in with this whole blog think some of the Programing and promotional things that I am working out the hard way might help some of you out there!

To Do
1. Everything from Yesterday!
2. Post a PRlog.org release about the blog and about Eatzu.com
3. Wait for the kudo's and date requests to pour in(lol)!

Upcomming
The big reason I'm jumping into this is that once I get the full to do list done I'm going to be shelling out 30-100 free websites designed by me at no cost to their new owners. More details are coming when I'm ready to launch but if you know someone looking for a site tell them to stay tunned because it's damn hard to beat FREE!

November 12th

Facebooks Going down
I have recently relized that facebook games are bottom feeding zombies thatare slowly sucking out my Brains!

I have wasted half a dozen hours on bejewelled alone in just the last week. However, I also realized that since these undead abominations hold their audience for long periods of time its time to become a dealer!

So watch out my friends I just created my first PHP web app a simple form. But as soon as I can convert my game maker games to web apps. Beware because they are Fun!!

This brings me to my Comming Soon List...

1. Downloadable Games from CrashCustom.Com


Daily Goals(this is just my personal stuff to do I will try to not list laundry but no promises as this is the main reason for my web journaling. Increased effectiveness.)

1. Finish current step of CrashAuto write Program(Step 3 of 7)
2. Find info on using ActiveX controls to run a game maker EXE on the website. (If any of you know this Answer Please send me the link)
3. Import this blog into my facebook Account!