Kansas City SEO
July 22, 2009
This is literally just a test post regarding the key term Kansas City SEO. There appears to be a site that is going for that term (results about 1/2 a million) and there are questions on how difficult it is to rank for it.
We are from the belief that the term isn’t impossible to rank for, and by running a single post on Tribble Ad Agency we will be able to judge the difficulty in ranking for such a term.
We expect to see some sort of results within a few days, most likely faster in Google News of course. That being stated however there is no monetary reason for this. It’s literally just a test to see if this post can achieve some sort of placement for the term Kansas City SEO
We place the odds at 40% that it will rank in the top 3 pages with this post alone and no other marketing surrounding it. Anyone care to bet? Comments will be closed in 1 week so people have time to weigh in and post their opinions on if this has a chance or not.
The term has a low search volume and has a low results figure, though not painfully low.. low enough to justify this test example to see if it works or not.
If you wish to link to this post to help the test, please comment below so we can keep track of the types of inbound links to this exact article were made.
Related Posts:
sulumits retsambew
March 30, 2009
Evidently someone is running a sulumits retsambew SEO contest. We are not part of it.. just saw nothing but Digg spam on it.. and figured someone can comment and inform us of who and where this contest is running. I want to stress this is not an entry, we just wanted to interview the person that started this contest… unless of course if the contest is like a million bucks… just kidding.
We like to keep track of these things and find out who or what is behind the push. SEO contests initially started back in 2003 with the now defunct SearchGuild.Com. It was quite fun then. Regardless when an SEO contest is going on, we just had to see who is behind is.. considering myself, Chris Ridings and a few others were who invented the idea of a sandbox contest a few years ago and we are curious on how it involved.
So please comment below and let us know…. also please note this is not an official entry.. we don’t do SEO contests… we are curious.. and if the people that started this one wants to be interviewed, let us know
Have fun with your sulumits retsambew contest.
Related Posts:
Notice : Agencies must get their content in by July 1
June 23, 2008
Our last Agency review for SEO was done in February. On the last run the agencies that ranked and took part were Leo Burnett, The James Group, Spark, Ogilvy, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, JWT, Young & Rubicam, Draftfcb, TBWA \ Chiat \ Day, GSD&M, Wieden & Kennedy, DDB, Saatchi and Saatchi, Weber Shandwick and Fleishman-Hillard.
The results were pretty interesting, as some agencies did a fairly decent job.. The same rules will apply as prior, only the top 15 will be listed. This is to save the embarrassment of being number 134 out of 134… so in essence we only list the top 15… and your agency has zero to fear even if it comes in dead last there won’t be any mention of it… but if you do a good job for your client.. you could show up on the list. On the last review we had some agencies pull out at the last moment when they realized that their site wasn’t going to preform well … with only the top 15 mentioned this should nullify any of those issues.
Our first review was pretty successful, we are expecting record results on this review for the most part. Please submit the website your agency built with the generic keyword sample here.
Related Posts:
Advertising Agency review for SEO
February 15, 2008
Leo Burnett and the James Group wins the SEO Evaluation
We wanted to first apologize for the delay with this, it was promised in January, however due to lack of cooperation with some agencies it took much longer than expected. We had several advertising agencies pull out of the review due to… well… lack of rankings for the client. In short by the fact that they pulled out it stated mountains. We will not list the firms that pulled out of the review for legal reasons by name.
The good news is that actually 2 agencies won the contest, both were able to prove their client rankings were stellar in each respective field. So the award goes to the James Group Advertising Agency in New York and Leo Burnett
A total of 40 agencies submitted content, only 14 were listed. So what you are viewing are the top 14 agencies that submitted content. So even last place on this list wasn’t last place from what we received… it’s actually the top 14.
Some of the agencies however did follow generally accepted best practices however overall we saw some pretty horrific stuff, such as a complete lack of metas or even the most basic text on the site. Of course not all the agencies below were totally lost actually some of them were pretty good in limited aspects. For example we found a case where the Agency went on a pretty substantial back link building campaign, only to forget to add a title or meta tag. The end result was ranking well for the single term they obtained the back links for but nothing else.
We found a case of another agency doing the polar opposite, they built a fairly SEO friendly site, but forgot to even issue a press release letting people know where the site is located. With no back links at all… and we mean AT ALL 6 months after the launch. Even in a Yahoo Site Explorer check (the link reporting in Yahoo is far more robust than Google) , of course the site ranks for nothing.
Then the most ironic thing we have ever seen, one of the larger agencies banned the site in the robots.txt file and spent months wondering why the client was not ranking.
Out of goodwill we notified the agency that a robots.txt file that looks like this is bad for rankings.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
What we were shocked with is that the holding company owned Advertising Agency thought that a Robots.txt was an inclusionary document and not an exclusionary document. Meaning in laymen terms, they thought they were telling Google what to spider instead of what not to spider.
It took quite a long time to explain to them that is what a sitemaps.org standard was to include documents. At the end the creative staff that built the site somewhat grasped the concept but were still somewhat foggy as their ‘fix’ was to switch filenames, not quite getting that the files are completely different.
You can’t put Robots.txt protocols in a sitemap, as above you see what a robots.txt file looks like, this is what a sitemaps.org standard sitemap looks like.
As you can tell, it’s not the same protocol. Here is the review as it stands, these are the list of firms ranked in order of WHAT WE FEEL is most competent in terms of SEO.
It’s also worth nothing we reviewed a client site of theirs, not their own. The results would be far different if we did their sites. We threw in some smaller agencies into the mix for a few reasons, mostly because their products did rank well and the deserve to be ranked with the larger firms.
1. Leo Burnett / The James Group
2 - Spark
3 - Ogilvy
4 - Crispin Porter + Bogusky
5 - JWT
6 - Young & Rubicam
7 - Draftfcb
8 - TBWA \ Chiat \ Day
9 - GSD&M
10 - Wieden & Kennedy
11 - DDB
12 - Saatchi and Saatchi
13 - Weber Shandwick
14 - Fleishman-Hillard
Again this should be treated as an opinion. If you wish to be included in the mix for next month please contact us
Next month the review will be far more robust.
Related Posts:
Recognized by Advertising Age Magazine as top Power 150 news outlet for Advertising and Marketing.
Recognized and listed in Google News. Don't stress, we're Satire
Ad Agency Advertising
