Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

A couple days ago I received an email from Dave Cisar, the owner of www.winningyouthfootball.com. Dave came to us a few months ago and asked us to host and maintain his website.

Dave knew a lot about optimizing his website for the search engines, but after experiencing some initial success, he was slipping in the rankings. His product sales were dropping off and he needed to turn things around.

We kept the look and feel of his website, but redesigned some of the back-end code to be more search engine friendly. We helped Dave target the keywords that would bring him the most customers and maximize his return on investment.

This is the email that Dave sent me yesterday:

I did everything you told me to do for SEO and we are now in the Google top 10 in 5 of the 6 main key words we want. We are #4 on one main key word phrase!

We aren’t making a bundle yet, but are getting about 1000 hits a day, 500 organic. Crushed our sales from last year and actually made a profit LOL.

THANKS!

DC

For those of you who don’t speak the web lingo, this means that Dave has more than doubled the number of people coming to his website since coming on board with us, he is selling more of his football coaching products than ever, and his company is now making money.

Congratulations Dave! We are looking forward to doing a complete redesign in November so you ca find that bundle you are looking for!

I received this email from Yahoo Photos the other day…

Dear Yahoo! Photos user,

For some time now, we’ve supported two great photo sharing services: Yahoo! Photos and Flickr. But even good things come to an end, and we’ve decided to close Yahoo! Photos to focus all our efforts on Flickr — the award-winning photo sharing community that TIME Magazine has called “completely addictive.”

We will officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to move to another photo sharing service (Flickr, KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket), download your original-resolution photos back to your computer, or buy an archive CD from our featured partner (for users of the New Yahoo! Photos only). All you need to do is tell us what to do with your photos before we close, after which any photos remaining on Yahoo! Photos will be deleted and no longer accessible.

Of course, we hope you’ll join us at Flickr (you can even use your Yahoo! ID), but we also realize that Flickr may not be for everyone. In the end, we want you to find the service that’s right for you, and we hope you take some time to learn more about your options before making this important decision.

Please give us your decision by Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. After that time, any photos remaining in Yahoo! Photos will be deleted. Click here to make your decision, or review a list of our frequently asked questions.
Thanks for being a part of the Web’s largest photo sharing service — we hope to see you over at Flickr!

The Yahoo! Photos team

The funny thing is that I never used Yahoo Photos, and only minimally use Flickr.