I am so happy to have the job of internet marketing the Wholesale Gem Shop, as I am a former wholesaler of silver jewelry myself! This job is a little outside of the square for the SEO Guys, as its a site already on page one of Google, in fact, they rank at No.4. The task ahead is to take them to no less than No.2 for Wholesale Silver Jewelry on www.google.com

Well, having had a look at the site, and the competition, i think the SEO Guys are up to the challenge.

So, as of 5pm today, the 10th of June, we are on the case, and will report progress as we go.

Update 3 July 2009
Site is at No.3 for wholesale silver jewelry, but not without a great deal of work. The site in fact dropped a place to 5 shortly after we took over. Likely, this was a result of "lag" something already wrong with the site kicking in. The fixes applied so far.

• Optimise the site.
• Fix all html errors
• Ban search engines from seeing duplicate versions of the site.
• Start getting links from other sites. They are an ethical business, so its relevant for them to be listed in ethical business directories.
• Start getting articles published on other sites, that refer to the site. The site owners have done some funky things which are worthy of publishing in jewelry magazines online

Its a lot of work to go yet, but number 2, is looking very likely.

Update 19 July 2009
Site has reached its target of No.2 for "wholesale silver jewelry". No pay for us yet, we need to maintain this position for at least 2 weeks, and the reality is we are going to continue working on the site for some months to come.

Update 29 July 2009
No.1 position achieved, and we are very pleased. No.2 was our minimum requirement, but No.1 was always our goal. We will be working hard over the next few months to solifidy this position, its no good if we don't keep it there.

Update 18 December 2009
We've been given a new task, get the site to No.5 or better onf google.com for "Wholesale Jewelry".  It was 25 when we took over, its now at 12.  Watch this space

Update 4 January 2010
A drop, back down to 26.  We've ntoiced this witha  few sites, as of the end of December 2009.  After running some tests, we realised a whole heap of new problems had crept into the site, problems we have briefed the site owner on how to fix, and how to ensure they don't return.  Will report back on this, in 28 days, which is about the amount of time it should take to fix the problem and for Google to lift the fitler that is causing this drop.