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We’ve been in the website design business for 13 years now and boy, have things changed a lot since the early days! Back in the mid-1990’s, a new website could be built using a text editor and simple HTML and enjoy placement within Yahoo (the big search engine back in the pre-Google days) within just a few days. Because the web was relatively new, it wasn’t very difficult to come up on page one in Yahoo for most anything.
Believe it or not, I once had a client who quickly got first page results on Yahoo but was afraid of his own success and wanted out.
One of my first clients back in those days, enjoyed a number one, page one placement in Yahoo under ‘Vermont country stores’. These days, that is a very competitive search term and even getting on page one of Google results is a monumental task. Ok, back to the story. One day, I asked my client how everything was going. He asked, “You know that webby thing you did on the computer?”. I nodded yes. “Well, people keep coming into my store and saying Hey, Ralph…I saw you on the web.”
I was a bit puzzled and replied, “…but Ralph, that’s a GOOD thing!” Unfortunately, he didn’t seem to think so. He said that he didn’t have a computer so he couldn’t see the web ad (even though I had offered to give him printed hard copies). “Well,” he snorted, “I can see my ads on TV but this webby thing makes me nervous because I can’t see it and it makes me nervous when people come in my store and say they saw me there.”
He was very happy when I took down his “webby thing” and people stopped coming into his store and mentioning that they had seen him on the web. With the millions of businesses that would do most anything to be seen and easily found, I came across the one businessman who wanted no part of it.
Only in Vermont!
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