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Staying The Course in SEO
December 02, 2005
I ran across something in a file this week. It was a copy of our first Yahoo! Directory listing from August 1999.
An interesting indicator of the growth of our industry was revealed when I saw that only 165 listings existed in our selected category destination. A more honest number of actual SEO companies would be well under 100. For example, a site called "A Few Good Women" is listed right below us in 1999. That would be a creative name for an SEO firm, but trust me, that one didn't do SEO.
Of the 100 SEO firms, only 36 still have active sites.
Today, Yahoo! recognizes 1,074 companies in this same category. That's amost a 1000% increase. Our industry has definitely come a long way since 1999.
And so has Intrapromote.
Something else stood out to me about our now six-year-old description. We are still doing exactly what we set out to do and what our Yahoo! description says - driving qualified site traffic to our clients' sites.
Don't make top search engine placements your only SEO goal. It's all about qualified traffic spending time on your site. I'll have more to say about this soon so stay tuned.
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posted by Doug Ausbury at December 2, 2005 04:16 PM
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