Startups & Online Business

OK, I have had a great time with www.activeinsulation.com.au. In two weeks we have set up a new site for them Sydney Roof Insulation and we are already seeing niche dominating organic search results for his chosen terms, we add a few more pages, 5-6 days later we are ranking for those terms. Its been one of the fastest sites I have ever seen rank.

This is owned by my brother in law Eddie so its a mates rates job (ie basically free) but it has been immensely satisfying.

Now I do a pretty good job of on page SEO optimisation, but I think its an unprotected niche so it was made easier. Also the domain name has been around for 3 years which also makes it easier. However it was clear to me with about 4 hours of work (ie created the site and started him in the right direction with his content), we have already made an enormous difference to Eddies business.

He is getting calls already from organic search results, in the suburbs he wants to work in and each deal he closes is worth $1k in margin, only takes a few calls to completely replace the $2k per month he spends on other advertising and double the amount of cash he has to look after my sister and the kids.

It made me start to wonder how many other small niches are unprotected especially in trades or services (except for SEO of course).

So in the spirit of Christmas giving I will do a free SEO critique of 10 Small Business sites (preference given to Australian Sites) and give recommendations for increasing traffic and blog my recommendations about each of them and just for fun if any of the comment spammers actually bother to put a customised Comment spam in I will give recommendations for one spam site as well.

Nominate your site in the comments, I will pick the 10 at the end of the week and start them next week.