LOL
I instantly hit X or back whenever I see a site like that.
For the Watsons Sign gentleman, your site is nice, It takes time to get rankings in google.. the best thing you can do is not download any of that seo crap or pay anyone..
search for generic terms that consumers would use on google "sign maker ontario" stuff like that.. view all of the top pages, and take notes of what google highlights in the listing of the site.. emulate what you see
make blog posts, take pics from jobs and post them, write a little story and post the link up on facebook/twitter/forums etc.
when creating URLS - Titles and posts, make sure and use layman words.. the average person doesnt know what coroplast is, but if you tell them that its a rigid, durable inexpensive material thats used to make those temporary yard signs for politicians.. they will instantly know.. so quite possibly if you do a blog post like this:
URL = www.xxxx.com/blog/yard-sign-design-applebees-ontario
Title = "Plastic yard signs designed and installed for applebees ontario"
post = Today we got a call from "Our Local Neighborhood Applebees" The manager, Jeff, was asking if we could make some inexpensive small yard signs that they could put in the grass outside the restaurant near the street to promote cinco de mayo. We instantly knew that he was referring to coroplast signs, which are the small plastic signs that are typically seen on roadsides for politicians.
Applebees had their corporate graphic designer send us their artwork, which was perfect, so we had absolutely zero design work to do besides plugging the graphics into our adobe software and get to printing and cutting the vinyl.
The vinyl lettering on the signs laid down very smooth on the 18 x 24" coroplast and once we finished, we delivered our signs over to Jeff who was stoked at the final result. We also provided metal stakes for the signs to make them stand easily in the grass. Even though cinco de mayo is a month away, jeff let us slide the sign in the ground out by the road in front of the business and get a couple of pictures. They look awesome as you can tell by the pics from the side of the street. We think people driving by on Mapleleafs drive will be able to see them clear as day!
If you happen to stop by the Applebees and see the coroplast yard signs that we did for them, please think of us. And if you are out partying on Cinco De Mayo, stop by Applebees, we will be there drinking a Margarita!
You are telling the story about some work you did, it shows pride, builds trust because you are working for a solid business the consumer may know and like and its free advertising.. you just have to type it
notice I typed the words "side of the street and road side" to describe the same thing? who knows what people are going to search.. so cover your bases.
This may seem rediculous.. but once it gets crawled by google robots, that page will get a lot of hits on words like "roadside yard signs ontario"
as a layman.. if I needed those I would search just that..
also, if you notice at the end it doesnt say "if you need some signs like this please give us a call at etc etc.." My personal opinion is that is cheesy.. it says that you just made that whole post to sell something..
Notice how I ended it by saying "coroplast yard signs" in the last paragraph and alluded to the fact that we would be celebrating.
well now the average business owner would think.. "oh thats cool they are doing good work for a company AND they are patronizing them.. let me call" Then they call and instead of stumbling for 10 minutes not knowing the name of what they want, they say "Hey I need some coroplast yard signs made." and they might even say "like the ones you guys did for Applebees" (which is rare lol)
