I'm trying to do SEO work for a local landscaper in my area. He does work in 10 cities. These cities are not big at all. I have gone ahead and looked at all of his competitors in these areas. I have found that most or not all have done little to no SEO work to there site. The landscaper with the most backlinks only has 110. Now, with all that said... Will I be able to put this guy on top of Google by doing blog posts, forum posts, write and submit a few articles and optimize the site a little better? I have seen that Google tends to rank these types of websites by domain age. This guys website is only 3 weeks old. My plan of action was to include keywords and title keywords with the cities he wants work in. For example: Landscapers in Shytown, Landscapers in Uptown, Landscapers in Boomtown Or should I concentrate his keywords to the big city in his area, and include other services like "yard restoration" Also, If I comment on 20-30 high pr blogs per day, post 20-30 forum postings per day, submit 10-15 articles, and submit his site to 200 directories ranging from PR0-PR8 how long should it take him to be at the first spot on Google with local keyword searches?
If you don't know, are you sure you are the best man for the job? You might be better off finding someone who knows the answers and knows what they are doing and out sourcing to that person so they do things in the background and you just take a cut from what this client is paying you. In my experience domain age is only one small factor btw.
First of all, you need to do a full key phrase analysis. You need to find key phrases that will provide some traffic without being hyper-competitive. Once you've identified key phrases that you think you can work with, THEN you worry about how to construct your site to take full advantage of on page optimization. Remember that your placement in Google is going to depend on the competition of the keyphrase and the amount of work you do. Second, I highly recommend completely dropping the directory submissions. These days that helps very little, if any at all, and in some cases can actually hurt your rankings. Third, remember that the number of outbound links on a page significantly impacts the amount of link juice that page will pass. So commenting on 20 or 30 blogposts that have 100 outbound links on the page already will not be very beneficial. If you find blogposts with strong PR that allow do follow comment and do not have alot of outbound links, then they absolutly will help. The forum postings won't help directly with SEO, but they will help in getting your pages indexed, and becoming active in your niche community is always a good thing, and can indirectly lead to other backlinks. I'd also skip the article submissions. Other SEO professionals have had luck with them, but google has been tightening up on duplicate content recently, rendering article directories less and less effective. Instead I'd go after 'guest blogging' opportunities, where you offer other blog owners to write a comprehensive, unique article that would benefit their blog in return for a single backlink in the article to your site.
OK... I'm obviously going to use as many keywords as possible. After looking over the competition I see that they have little or no backlinks. I was planning on dropping an anchor link with key word "New York Landscaper" or something along those lines. I was also told by several SEO professionals that anchor text links with your keyword is extremely important. I was going to post comments on do-follow and comment luv blogs. I can certainly spin an article on a guest blog on a "home & garden" high PR blog. I will certainly give that a shot.
You can choose as many key phrases as possible, but each page of your site should be optimized on only 1 or two keyprhases. Also, I'm not a big fan of 'spinning' articles. They often do not read very well, and I know that if I'm a blog owner and you give me a poorly worded article that looks like it was 'spun' I won't bother even posting it. I recommend completly unique, well written, created from scratch articles that add high quality, valuable content to the blog you are posting on. That way you will increase the odds that the article will be 'dugg', 'stumbled' and otherwise linked to.