How would you market this.

If you can, buy the domain sandiegopressurewashing or something similar that is kw optimized for location and the service.

Realize your target market, and research a bit on how they would find you.

For instance, why would I look for your pressure washing? what do I need it for?

A lot of articles can be developed from this that can help with SEO and bring in some traffic.

A solid SEO plan can get you there - but as for how long it takes/how much work it involves - that depends on competition and how well they have optimized themselves.

Getting on page 1 of Google for that term is likely to be
easy. Whether such a position will mean a lot of traffic
or not I don't know.

You should revise the meta tags, particularly the title tags,
of your website to include the keywords and phrases you
want to rank well for. Include those words and phrases
in the copy on the pages as well. There's a lot of intricacy
and theories about the best way to include keywords in
a website, but try to use them in a natural way and
see if that gets you the results you want.

You need to start creating backlinks to your site. Blog
commenting, your own blogs, press releases, and so forth.

Chances are your competition is clueless about internet
marketing and it will be relatively simple to seize a top
SEO position on Google for the term.

HI

sandiegopowerwashing.com is already taken

but the .net is not..

if you own the .com cool... make a site and put some related articles on them and then submit those articles to as many article directories as you can and in your bio box put your link to your main site.

Also try building links to your site with links from directories... do some press releases..

Make a tweeter account and put a follow us on tweeter link on your sites.. you can then tweet to your follows about weekly discount offers your company offers.

Tell your tweeters you re-tweet your tweets for an extra discount..

Thx
Tom

Lionel,

Not trying to be very 'marketing' here, but perhaps you can check out my Free Report and Video on SEO Techniques.

You can find the link in my signature.

You have to opt in my list first though. If you hate it, you can simply opt out immediately after.

But anyways, in the report I show you some things besides the typical backlink building aspect for SEO.

In the video, I also talk a little about linkwheels (pardon the voice though). It should be enough to let you understand.

If you still do not know what is linkwheels (it's powerful stuff), drop me a PM and I'll send you my Personal Drawn Linkwheel.

Add your business to Google Maps
You'll then be in the first listing for sandiego pressure washing

Buy sandiegopressurewashing.net, org and info. .com is already taken but does not appear on the front page which indicates to me that it is probably parked and for sale. If the price is not too bad you could offer to buy it, but you can accomplish the same with the .net.

Build a similar site on the .net that is optimized for your keywords and heavily bookmark it using James bookmarking service.
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Hi Lionel,

The first thing I'd do is run an AdWords campaign using $20 just to check to see if you can even get traffic for that keyword phrase. My hunch is, you won't get enough traffic to make basic SEO worth your time or money.

Right now, don't worry about a sales page or anything else, just check to see if you can even drive enough traffic to make SE marketing, including adwords and SEO, even worth your effort.

I'd learn about Google Maps, but that's about it. So do a google for something like "how to optimize for google maps" and get that done.

I'm sorry, but not all businesses are a good match for SEO...$20 now in AdWords will quickly let you see just how much traffic you may possibly get before investing more.

Instead, build a site that enhances your other marketing techniques.

Try Craig's List. Figure out how to automate that, if possible.

Learn how to use the post office and post cards to cheaply reach everyone that has a parking lot, etc, like businesses and apartments buildings. There's been a few Warrior posts about this topic over the years and seems to be a very inexpensive way to advertise.

JV with other maintenance type companies such as gardeners, lawn care, window washers, etc. Have them pass out brochures to you company, you do the same for them. You can get a couple of companies like this to share printer costs, with each getting a "page" in the brochure...Point this to your site (and phone) for more info.

But again, please test your SE market before spending a lot of time and effort...Make sure the traffic is really there.

After you do get your site up and running make sure you do a Press Release to all of your local and surrounding areas media.

Your release should be centered around the fact that your company has gone online.

If you find something to offer the online visitors, like a discount coupon, then that would be the focus of the PR.

Matt

p.s. Make sure to include plenty of testimonials from current customers.

Hi Lionel

It sounds like you don't have much experience with the website code.. no problem though, it's real easy to learn. As this isn't the SEO board I'll try to keep this as basic and straight forward as possible for you.

Log into the server where the site is hosted and download the front page (usually index.html or default.html). Open it in notepad and look for:

<TITLE>

In between this tag and the closing title tag, </TITLE>, write in the search term you want to be found under.

Now find:
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="A description here.">

In between the last set of quotes, write in a short description of the company and include the same phrase as you used in the title tag.

Save and upload to your host.

That's about as basic as you can get, and I'm really sorry if you've already done this.. just not sure of what steps you've taken so far, or how experienced you are.. better safe than sorry though!

If you get stuck with anything, and there's much more SEO you can do yourself easily and quickly, I'll check the SEO boards over the next couple of days to see if you need help.

My brother runs this kind of business and makes a lot of money.....my feeling is be creative and make your own website...forget adwords....just study the best keywords and keyword phrases....and you should get ranked locally.....after all there's not all that much competition in each city.