Its good to see the Irish SEO community, particularly those at the top, start talking a bit more. And I've been very chuffed to see that I've been recommended a lot over at the Irish Webmaster Forum and Boards.ie.
And so I haven't been able to get to my blog - and this isn't going to be my future blog going forward, as I've embarked on a number ambitious new web projects. Because I trade online - i.e. I have my own websites that are selling to consumers - I have real experience in what makes a web business over what makes a website. Anyone today can stick a website together, and as such - many people are putting together websites thinking that they now have a web business.
So my mission on the blog, my next SEO blog and on the boards and forums, is to bring home the message that a web business is a business and it requires marketing, and promotion, and development. Just because it's on the web doesn't mean it will bring you business.
Secondly, I've been very busy trying to educate people as to so called "Google Experts". They come in the form of online marketing specialits, the self-conceived and self-appointed "Google Retail Partners" (complete nonsense) and other online web design companies who feel they now need to sell SEO but don't fully understand the bigger SEO picture.
So this is my plan over the next few months:
Learn how to build an online business
1. I'm going to conceive, plan and run a new web business from scratch
2. I will use Google - AdWords (Pay-Per-Click) and Google Organic rankings (through my SEO Google Expertise)
3. Affiliate marketing
4. A brand new design
5. Brand new domain names
I will highlight the following key points:
1. Budget
2. Timescales
3. Promotion
4. Identifying and selecting your Partners
5. Getting the name out there
6. Designing the site
7. Developing the site
8. Managing and promoting it all the way through to making money.
It should make for a good case study. There are very few examples of bring an online business from start to finish. I believe pretty much everything thats involved in setting up an offline business applies to creating an online business, research, promotion, pr, etc and especially networking whether its online or offline.
ReplyDeleteHey, any results? How is the web business going? good organic traffic? any tips/tricks? would be interested in hearing how you are getting on...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a really interesting project. Would be very interested to hear how you get on!
ReplyDeleteMe too. We have become Ireland's biggest homebrew supplier (http://homebrewwest.ie) and the only wholesalers here. Thing is we only come about third in Google's organic results. And Addwords is costing us a fortune. All seems a bit silly. We just haven't had the time to get smart about it. Although I am a software engineer, I'd quite happily pay a few hundred Euros to someone who knows this stuff, I simply don't have the time!
ReplyDeletewill look forward to this David. Will be interesting to see how the expert does it, although I'd like to see it happen, personally, without the adwords
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