Comments on: Utah SEO Company Rankings

By: Alex McArthur

Alex McArthur — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:01:18 +0000

Well my old site WAS #1 for “utah internet marketing” for the past few years. As of today utahinternetmarketing.com is #1. Curse all of the MWI blogs and their nicely placed links!

I found one datacenter that still loves me. I’ll just keep refreshing the results on that IP the rest of the day to soothe my pain.
Nice work MWI. Wow…2 days after bragging about being #1…

By: Alex McArthur

Alex McArthur — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:18:42 +0000

This is a great topic and it’s nice to see so many local names commenting. I wanted to respond to Chris’s post about the term “utah internet marketing”. My old side business MidScape ranks #1 for both “utah internet marketing” and “utah online marketing”. Josh has it right though, “utah web design” is the most valuable keyword in the industry at this point. This term will lead to far more conversions than “utah internet marketing” which has a very low search volume. MWI has done an excellent job in it’s strategy. I’ve also noticed the guys at 97thFloor doing well in the SERPs.

By: Jacob Kerr

Jacob Kerr — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:08:21 +0000

Hello Joshua,

My name is Jacob Kerr and I am one of Utah Web Services SEO/SEM Specialist. I have noticed allot of progress for MWI over the last year when it comes to SEO/SEM and branding and would like to say that you guys seem to do very well. Utah Web Services has expanded allot over the last 1.5 years and is starting to become a larger player in the SEO/SEM industry here in Utah (we have always been good at SEO/SEM, but have not invested as much time into our own online operation as we should have). I’m sure that Utah Web Services will soon be part of you SEO reporting or competitive analysis.

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:37:22 +0000

I assume you mean “take out” the non-related SEO search terms. I suppose that would make it more concise for this post, but I think I’ll opt on the side of being lazy and leave it as is.

We don’t use the keyword generator in Web CEO. In fact we probably only use 20% of the functionality in Web CEO.

Yeah, work on AlmostAdvertising.com has sort of stalled while we work on TheOrganicSEO.com. All in good time.

By: Bart Gibby

Bart Gibby — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:12:42 +0000

Oh I forgot, if your going to post about SEO I would take the non related SEO search terms. Like Utah web development. Plus WEB CEO keyword generator only gets keyword meta tags. I like Web CEO and am looking forward to the client manager to get out of beta. However, meta keywords don’t really give the complete picture of all the SEO related keywords in the Utah area.

But of course you wouldn’t post the really good easy keywords for your competition to look at.

You might also consider that some of the SEO firms might not consider MWI as a competitor. Since SEO is not the main focus of the company, some companies like to outsource to companies that specialize. Although there are a lot benefits to having a staff with as many competencies as you do. So long as they integrate with each other and don’t end up not communicating your firm could be the best SEO firm in the state.

P.S. http://www.AlmostAdvertising.com is broken.

Cheers!

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:06:15 +0000

Hi Bart, nice to hear from you. I know 10x got bought out a little over a year ago by an out of state company, but I hadn’t heard anything about them closing down their Utah office so that’s news to me.

We’re actually doing a presentation at Corporate Alliance in a few weeks, on the 18th of January to be precise. I’m hoping we’ll be ready by then to introduce a new SEO service we’ll be launching soon.

Actually Patrick Henry does do SEO. Well, at least they’ve got clients paying them for it, whether or not they’re doing it is another matter. That’s all I’m going to say about that for the time being.

By: Bart Gibby

Bart Gibby — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:59:12 +0000

Josh,

Long time no see. I have been keeping tabs on you ever since your mentored our class at UVSC. MWI’s doing SEO now eh? Well, Word on the Grape vine says that 10Xmarketing is leaving town. Packing their bags and running to Washington with their tail tucked between their legs.

I also heard that your SEO team did a presentation at Corporate Alliance a few weeks ago. Looks like you guys have a good thing going. Patrick Henry you know does training, they really are not a competitor. Unless you plan on getting into training.

I look forward to competing with you, cheers.

By: Dave Bascom

Dave Bascom — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:11:10 +0000

Kudos for for posting this. You make a valid point about the value of “practicing what you preach.” There are a lot of firms that admit they don’t do SEO, which is fine, but if they say they know their stuff, they should back it up with results. That being said, I’m sure a lot of local firms are like my own, we’ve been so busy working on our clients’ stuff and other projects that we haven’t really tried to show up for any of those keywords. As you know, SEO is largely about keywords in links these days, and those keyword links typically don’t happen “naturally” — you’ve got to actively acquire links with your keywords, so it could be partly due to a lack of attention, rather than ability of expertise.

You’re might be asking for it by posting this report, but chances are it won’t make much difference in the level of competition for your keywords. If they knew what they were doing they’d already be competing. Expect to see more competition for the SEO-related keywords, though–mostly from firms not on your report

By: 97th floor

97th floor — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:36:24 +0000

I gotta say Josh, I was wondering when you would finally bust a post that got me to comment. You should throw webtargeted.com on their as well. Also the funny thing about Utah is there are a million companies claiming SEO, yet were are they on the engines?

Good Post - Good Blog

By: Joshua Steimle

Joshua Steimle — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:38:09 +0000

Gotcha. There are other “competitors” out there that we don’t track because we don’t see them as true competitors in the sense that we’re going to end up competing for work against them, such as MarketingTool.com which is a directory. The firms we track the closest are those that purport to provide the same services we do, rank well or are moving up, and which pose a real competitive threat. The firms that don’t rank anywhere in this report are generally not tracked on a frequent basis since while they may be competitors in every other sense, they aren’t competitors for rankings. I only included them in this report to demonstrate the flaw in their claiming to provide SEO services when they don’t rank for SEO related terms.