SEO-PPC-Internet Marketing Clients and Results

So How does Weaversites stack up in my own field? As of 02/23/11 I'm at #5 for "Asheville SEO", #1 for "Asheville PPC", #1 for "Asheville NC SEO", #3 for "Asheville Internet Marketing", and #4 for "NC SEO". Those are a few examples (and they will normally fluctuate to some degree.)

Considering I always work on my own site last, I am not unhappy with these results.

PCG Realtors specializes in luxury & high-end real estate, homes, horse farms, land tracts and equestrian properties in Asheville, Greenville Spartanburg, and all points between the Western NC mountains and the SC upstate horse country. This is a new and challenging project, given the current status of the NC & SC real estate scene. We are working on both on-site and off-site strategies to draw buyers for real estate in Asheville, NC mountains, & Carolina horse country region.

TSAChoice is a full-service telecommunications, voice and data services provider located in Asheville NC. They recently launched a totally new site to showcase everything they offer, from business network sytems to A/V and conferencing to security systems. I am working on the organic SEO. The new site is fantastic and includes a mobile version. The team responsible for an outstanding job is Elly Wells Marketing and Project management, Totsie Marine & Winn King for site construction on the Plone CMS platform, and Plone Mobile Site development by mFabrik.

Jaan Ferree, the Intentional Designer, provides some very special interior and exterior design services & consulting for both residential homes and businesses. Her specialty is creating peaceful, healing, and sacred spaces both indoors and outdoors. She redesigned the chapels at Mission-St. Joseph's hospitals here in Asheville. She's also an expert labyrinth designer, which are used for meditation and prayer walks. Labyrinths can be constructed indoors or outdoors for home gardens, meditation gardens,spiritual retreats and public spaces. Our goal for her site is to brighten the spotlight on her talents for design in any place that's meant to be therapeutic and healing, whether it's a hospital or health care facility, a church or non-denominational chapel, or a public garden.

Divine Living is an Asheville furniture store, and divine is an understatement. If I win the lottery I'll be doing all my furniture shopping here. The SEO challenges are many - it's a new site, the store moved from a previous location, and it is short on links. The solution to new sites is give it some time - there is no 'trick' to getting fast results with a new site. The location move requires going through a lot of old, incorrect directory-related search results and getting them fixed. This can be a frustrating hassle unless you've got a helping hand. After taking care of some SEO essentials we're getting much-improved search results.

I must admit - if there were ever a client I wish I could trade services with, Cosmetic Surgery of Asheville would have to be the one. That aside, their surgical facility and staff are wonderful but their search results were lagging behind a lot of competition. After working with them, their cosmetic surgery practice now enjoys prominent placement for both local search and organic search for a broad range of terms.

Eagle's Roost Safaris, located in Nairobi, offers Kenya & Tanzania safaris and tours. One truth appears to be universal - travel and tourism is competitive no matter where you are located. My task is to raise overall internet exposure and attract more clientele. We are starting with essential organic SEO and link acquisition. I admit to having a soft spot for this project. The owner, Juliet Reed, is very cordial. Eagle's Roost offers everything from wildlife and birding safaris to climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Working with Ms. Reed, I can almost feel like I'm there!

The Acupuncture Clinic of Charleston provides professional Chinese acupuncture treatment within the sphere of holistic Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Karyla Gaines is a National Board Certified Acupuncturist licensed in South Carolina. The site, built with typical grace and style by Julie Parker at Handwoven Webs, was emminently SEO-friendly and optimizable. It didn't take long before Karyla became the queen of Charleston acupuncture. Already she mentioned that she's getting a lot more calls from new clients - music to my ears!

TGR Enterprises presented an internet marketing challenge because their site features two entirely different services/products. The company provide product prototyping, tooling, product development, manufacturing and marketing. They are also the makers of two sporting goods, which the sell online: the Fly Saver fly fishing accessory, and the Brass Stacker magazine loader for hunting and shooting enthusiasts. In the process of optimizing and increasing their internet exposure, I had to maximize results for very different subjects. Here's what happened. On Wednesday, we talked and they were concerned that they hadn't had any online sales yet. I told them, "You will!" Lo and behold, the next day they got their first two orders. Kaching!

S Squared Design Studio features the green residential home designs offered by Architect Matthew Vande and Architectural Engineer, Amy Musser. With credentials from the NAHB Green Building Program, LEED for Homes, the NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program, and Energy Star Partnership, S Squared Design Studio offers formidable experience and expertise if you're looking for Green home plans and design. Their sister company, www.VandeMusser.com , offers home energy analysis and rating services throughout Western North Carolina.

Weaverville.com - A web site reborn! After ten years of lying dormant, the geo-local site for Weaverville, NC is more than just new and improved. A year in the making, it has been tastefully redesigned to showcase the hidden gem of Weaverville as an ideal NC destination for vacations, staycations, and playcations. The site was built by www.studio1337.com with excellent SEO components built-in from day one. I worked on the optimization behind the scenes while it was under development. Additional credit for web copywriting goes to A.D. Reed.

Rising Road Tours specializes in escorted small group tours of Ireland and Scotland. I've been working with them since 2005. Google Ireland Custom Tours and (as of 04/11/11) their site is in position #5. In December 2008, the site enjoyed 82 Top Ten Google rankings for broad-search terms. As anyone in the travel business knows, times have been hard since 2008 and we are only now beginning to see an upturn. We're concentrating on more specific traveler targeting for 2011.

Carolina Storage Solutions supplies storage barns and sheds, carports, horse barns, gazebos, and trailers for transporting landscaping equipment, machinery, cargo and dump trailers. I peformed on-site SEO and the best testimonial to the results is that the company owner remembered and recommended me long after my work was done.

VandeMusser Design (Matt Vande and Amy Musser) is an Asheville firm providing Energy Star, LEED, HealthyBuilt Homes, and NAHB certification for green homes and construction throughout NC, SC, TN, GA, ad VA. They also provide inspection and consulting services, working with home builders and architects to design green building the right way from the ground up. This site is all FLASH :-) My job was to turn the content from invisible to visible - and highly-ranked for their particular service in a five state region.

Womens' Art Space is a new site to showcase the art, music, and literature by women of Western NC. It is also designed to provide support and connection for women in the arts as they go through the process of artistic creation. Members include musicians, fine artists, authors, jewelers, the spoken word, and visual arts in a broad range of media. This site was created in partnership with WNC Woman, and print and online magazine by and about the women of Western NC - with the occasional "y factor" perspective. This has been a tough one because of the broad scope of the site, but we are gradually gaining ground.

Cormark International is an importer of fine exotic hardwoods from environmentally-friendly, sound renewable resources. Well-known and respected in the wholesale trade, they recently expanded their site into retail online sales. Our effort now is to promote these items - including woodturning blanks and woodworking materials, as well as finished pieces such as cutting boards and turned wood bowls. From May to December 2008, I nearly tripled their site visitors.

Bizamajig provides an all-in-one business solution for customer relations, marketing, project management, networking, communications, and more. It allows businesses to manage everything in one place - including merchant services for e-commerce. You get a public website, plus unique login-based areas for your working partners and customers. This site does so much it is impossible to cover it all in one paragraph - check them out! The big challenge was to make this entirely program-driven master site search-engine-friendly. With some collaboration with the master programmer, we succeeded.

777Junk.com is a locally-owned junk removal company in western NC, a sorely needed service in our area. If you are looking for 777Junk, their tel# is 828-777-5865. Don't confuse them with the franchises of a Canadian firm or imitators. Who among us doesn't have a garage full of stuff that we keep planning to dispose of, or donate, or recycle? 777Junk does it all - and they are 100% local. When I first started, the site had 3 Top 10 results. As of December 2008, we got that up to 37 in Google alone.

Dr. John Huie is an educational consultant for troubled and struggling teens. Formerly the Executive Director of the North Carolina Outward Bound School,
Dr. Huie is now focusing on helping teens and their families on a one-to-one basis. As of 06/06/08, his site ranks in Google Top 10 for 40 terms directly related to his areas of expertise and the people he's reaching out to.

Hoot Holler Music is a newly-launched web site for a new record label and CD release, "Walkin' to the Bridge." The CD is a variety of original tunes, performed around a 'traditional' bluegrass band (guitar, banjo, fiddle, bass, mandolin) but features a variety of styles from true old-time to newgrass-progressive bluegrass. The online music business is about as competitive as you can get. In December, we had top 10 results for the band Tom has played with for years - County Farm. But the competition have been brushing up their sites, so it's back to work for Hoot Holler and County Farm.

Byers Precision Fabricating needed to attract more B2B business for their high-end laser-precision metal fabrication services. This is one of the few sites that I did actually rebuild in 2006, to overcome a few technical issues with the original site construction. Google Precision Fabricators and (as of 04/11/11) they are in position #2.

White Night makes a unique vehicle rear lighting system for trucks, SUVs, and any vehicle that could benefit from additional back-up lights. Their website was getting no rankings at all. This is also a site I rebuilt to overcome some technical barriers. Since we began working together in 2006, their online product sales have increased, they have acquired new distributors. Google "Vehicle Rear Lighting" for position #2 or "Truck Rear Lighting" for position #1 (as of 04/11/11.)

Thornton Realty is a site I've been working with since 2001. They specialize in large acreage and land tracts in the Western NC mountains. I originally built it, with essential SEO factors included. It has undergone a complete overhaul and facelift by www.handwovenwebs.com. It has been some time since I've worked on it, but as of 04/11/11 they have Top 10 listings for Asheville land for sale, Asheville land tracts, and NC land tracts.