A couple of weeks ago, I tried searching for the keywords "Bellevue Business" on google. I was a little surprised at all the paid ads at the top, but am proud to say that the #1 organic search result is BellevueBusinessJournal.com - one of my most active sites. (Advertising is available and very inexpensive considering the market it has exposure to.) It is a little surprising that the Bellevue Chamber with it's huge budget and staff is behind us - but hey I'm happy - and feel like we do a much better job of representing businesses and business people in Bellevue and on the Eastside of Lake Washington. Shoot - at the time of this writing, my real estate blog site, JoeKennedy.biz was only two listings behind the 'mighty' chamber.
This morning I just googled "Bellevue" and was very surprised to see that BellevueBusinessJournal.com shows up on the very first page. It is at the bottom, but heck we are on the first page! Again, ahead of the slumping Bellevue Chamber of Commerce whose site does not even show up on the first page at all.
BTW - Microsoft's BING seems to continue to be irrelevant in search, (especially local search) as many of it's search results are simply list directories or links from the Bellevue's in Nebraska or Tenessee (although BellevueBusinessJournal.com is still listed #2 and way ahead of the once influential Bellevue Chamber, which is not even listed on the first page under Bellevue Business) ... This is very sad.
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