I just tried this here in the US and get 1,160,000 and most are in
Birmingham Alabama. Sorry I won’t look through them all. And of course
that doesn’t help much.
Hi Jamie,
I am a bit of a novice when it comes to search, but here are a couple of things that might help…
Time…be patient, google does place value on the age of a domain name so that is a factor with a brand new site.
List your business with Google’s “Local Business Center” feature…that might help you when you do your generic “Photographer” search.
Page titles…I think google searches through page titles, I’m not sure if having your domain name in each page title before your page title description helps or not.
The big one - Quality Links…both from your site and to your site. If you are a member of any photographers club, or organization or if you can just link from and to any site that is relevant to either photographers or Birmingham, it should help.
Sometime around 28/2/09 (at 10:46 -0500) Snapper said:
If I can’t be found using the search words “Birmingham Photographer”
it would be pointless having the website.
You may be in what is sometimes referred to as the ‘sandbox’ phase: http://www.webconfs.com/google-sandbox-article-11.php
Google won’t automatically rank you highly if you’re a new site, even
if the content is good. This can take time, but there are things you
can do (as that article suggests) to minimise the delay.
Submitting your URL to Google won’t speed things up at all. The only
good that does is if there is no other way for Google to find your
site. And Analytics also doesn’t give you an edge. Google only
cares about ranking sites according to how it thinks they match up to
search requests - it couldn’t give two hoots for that sort of thing
as far as ranking your site is concerned.
BTW, what did you mean by “I have added me to as many links as possible”?
One thing that might help is to try buying some google keyword ads with
Birmingham photographer.
It neednt cost much to try out and may help if if it shouldnt.
all the best
Brian
Keith Martin said recently:
Sometime around 28/2/09 (at 10:46 -0500) Snapper said:
If I can’t be found using the search words “Birmingham Photographer”
it would be pointless having the website.
You may be in what is sometimes referred to as the ‘sandbox’ phase: Jumping Over the Google Sandbox
Google won’t automatically rank you highly if you’re a new site, even
if the content is good. This can take time, but there are things you
can do (as that article suggests) to minimise the delay.
Submitting your URL to Google won’t speed things up at all. The only
good that does is if there is no other way for Google to find your
site. And Analytics also doesn’t give you an edge. Google only
cares about ranking sites according to how it thinks they match up to
search requests - it couldn’t give two hoots for that sort of thing
as far as ranking your site is concerned.
BTW, what did you mean by “I have added me to as many links as possible”?