SEO Casestudy.
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 -
| Before SEO |
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After SEO |
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| Google - 77 |
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Google - 118 |
| MSN - 84 |
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MSN - 102 |
| Yahoo - 133 |
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Yahoo - 321 |
Number of Backlinks Showing -
| Before SEO |
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After SEO |
| Google - 0 |
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Google - 18 |
| MSN - 133 |
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MSN - 345 |
| Yahoo - 161 |
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Yahoo -249 |
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Google Pagerank -
| Before SEO |
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After SEO |
| 0/10 |
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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 for keyphrase Pencil Portrait Gifts.
| Date |
Google |
MSN |
Yahoo |
| 15th December 2006 |
Number 1 |
Number 2 |
Number 3 |
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| 5th January 2007 |
Number 1 |
Number 2 |
Number 2 |
| 1st February 2007 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 |
| 1st March 2007 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 and 2 |
Number 1 and 2 |
| 1st April 2007 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 and 2 |
Number 1 and 2 |
| 1 st May 2007 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 and 2 |
Number 1 and 2 |
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| 1st January 2008 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 |
Number 1 |
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| 24th March 2009 |
Number 2 |
Number 1 |
Number 3 |
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.
"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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