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SEO for Pencil Portrait Drawing Artist.
Darla is a very talented artist who draws pencil portraits. She also does illustrations for books and has had several pieces of her artwork published.
Darla came to me because her Pencil Portrait Gifts website wasn't being found in Google. Her site was coming up in Yahoo so why not Google she wondered?
After doing Darla's free report I spotted some of the problems causing this, between the two of us we fixed those and then I could work on the SEO for the Pencil Portrait homepage.
Below are before and after results of a general overview of the website -
Number of Indexed Pages -
19th September | 6th December
Google - 77 Google - 118
MSN - 84 MSN - 102
Yahoo - 133 Yahoo - 321
Number of Backlinks -
Google - 0 Google - 18
MSN - 133 MSN - 345
Yahoo - 161 Yahoo - 249
Google Pagerank -
PR - 0/10 PR - 4/10
Search Engine Results.
In a matter of days after completing SEO Darla's website was picked up by Msn, and a couple of weeks later was being found in the top 10 of Google, Yahoo and Msn.
Below are the results so far with dates and placements.
Results for keyphrase Pencil Portrait Gifts - 15 December 06
Google - Number 1
Yahoo - Number 2
MSN - Number 3
5 January 07
Google - Number 1
Yahoo - Number 2
MSN - Number 2
19 January 07 to Present Day
Google- Number 1
Yahoo - Number 1
MSN - Number 1
See search engine screenshots to confirm the results, or do a search yourself!
Darla is now getting 80-90 hits per day on her site, which over time should steadily increase! That's up from 40-45 hits per day that she was getting before the SEO was carried out.
The key-phrase "Pencil Portrait Gifts" also gives Darla results under "Portrait Gifts" where she is in the top 25 of Google, Msn and Yahoo. As well as the phrase "Pencil Portraits" where she is within the top 40 results at Google, all an added bonus for getting more visitors!
Why has this site done so well? Apart from SEO, in my opinion it's the number of quality, incoming links she has.
Those link swaps enabled the search engines to pick up the changes on her site fast, hence her showing up in the results so quick! I've said before that it's really common for Google to take 30-60days or more to "find' websites, that is still true but occasionally miracles do happen!
Comments from Darla, Owner and Artist of Pencil Portrait Gifts Website.
(Written 19th December 06)
"My website was doing pretty well on Yahoo for my top search terms, but for
some reason I couldn't figure out, my site wasn't even on Google at all.
Emily to the rescue! Emily quickly figured out what the largest
problem was. She gave me a long report showing possible and definite
problems on my site and how to correct them along with wonderful, workable
recommendations.
Very quickly,
my site is now on the first page of the search engines for my search term, and
for some of them, my site is in the number one position! Of course,
Everyone's results may vary, but I am extremely happy with the results of
Emily's hard work."
Darla Dixon
http://www.pencil-portrait-drawing-artist.com
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