I recently finished up a design project for Bristlecone Realty, a salt lake property management company I found through a friend. It was a fun project, a clean, simple design with some embedded PHP and HTML elements that they could use with a WYSIWYG editor to make changes on the site they update frequently.
They also wanted some SEO work done and so I have also been tackling that this summer with the most mixed, unusual results I have ever had with SEO. I am optimizing for the keyword string “salt lake property management” and right now they are sitting at #1 for MSN, #32 for Yahoo, and nowhere on Google. Yup, one day we were steadily climbing around #45-50 and the next day it was delisted…why? I have no idea. I submitted a reconsideration form and am waiting on that.
A weird thing to happen when there appears to be nothing black hat at all about the site. I scoured over every inch of the HTML and found only a period that was “hidden” to hold space in an area that was showing up differently in FF and IE. I removed that and am now just waiting for Google to give the page back its proper place.
Meanwhile, you can check out the page at http://www.brgsaltlake.com
Former entrepreneur now a 9-5'er (by choice), I'm a web marketer, blogger, designer, and lover of all things outdoors. Happily married, living in the mountains of Colorado.