According to the website it is a three step process and apart from the actual downloading and installation of the software it is.

So firstly it asked for the website and then some keywords and finally the three search engines to compare results.

Then it just did a bit of thinking and my results were up.

What I liked about this was the ability to edit and update things so easily. It was only a few clicks and I could add keywords or change the website (super handy to compare how you’re doing vs your competitors).

I think this will be super handy for anyone wanting to test any branding campaigns based on the slogan or catch phrase they may be presenting. Being able to see how many hits you’re getting based on the keywords you have plugged in gives you an idea of how many people are finding you based in your services or your slogan. It also gives you a chance to test different slogans to get definitive data on how your viewers are finding you.

The ability to update the results is really good as it can show you the impact of your marketing campaigns over time. This combined with video or social media analytics can really help with testing different strategies and campaigns with online and social media marketing. As someone who often works in social and online marketing this is a really handy tool to have to get data on campaigns that aren’t as straight forward as pay per click ads or affiliate marketing, but are still valuable. This data can really help also in justifying said campaigns in budget meetings.

I will definitely be utilising this tool in future campaigns and market research initiatives.

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Amazing Benefits
Just take a look at some of the screen shots showing what Support Hero can do:

1. Add FAQ tutorials & articles

2. Install a snippet

3. Reduce inbound support tickets

4. Learn what questions my users need answering

5. Customize my contact form

6. Add URLs

7. Have the right answers in the right place

8. Display specific tutorials and FAQs on any URL of my website

Personal Attention
Right away, I received a very nice personal email from Matic Uzmah, who is one of the co-founders of Support Hero, offering to chat with me about my needs and how he could help. Not only did he give me some additional tips on getting started but I also received from him what he calls a “magic wand” for making my knowledge base way more effective. He gave me a special line of code to insert before the tag for all the pages of my site and, he was absolutely right. My support center was automatically embedded within my app. What could be easier?

Kickass SaaS Company
I also found out that Support Hero was listed as one of Eight Kickass SaaS Companies at SaaStock2017. It seems like everybody has good things to say about Support Hero, including major players in the social media management platform field like Agorapulse. And now, frankly, I have to say great things, too. Prior to trying Support Hero, I honestly didn't have a clue whether my knowledge base was efficient or inefficient. Now, I know it is and that's the name of the game, in my opinion. Now, users are finding my help center content so much more easily because it's integrated throughout a variety of sections of my contact forms. And, the powerful analytics let me know exactly what my users are searching for. There's no more guesswork plus it virtually integrates with everything, including Desk.com, FreshDesk, Uservoice, and Zendesk.

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At the time, that little test ended with 7 out of the first 10 spots on the first page of Google pointing to me as being the global leading hazelnut coffee expert.  Ironically I haven't had hazelnut coffee since. 🙂

Having a quick look just now I can see that 2 years later I still have the top 3 spots globally.

And yes before you say anything – I agree it was a relatively easy phrase to go after (for people who know what they're doing) – only 235,000 results to beat – but that wasn't the point.  It was actually an experiment to see how fast Google indexes stuff.  At the time it took around 30 seconds to get the first spot (with Google hangouts) and around 48 hours to chalk up the rest of the 7 top listings.

So What Am I Doing Today?

Well, this test is really to see how long it takes to get an “image” ranked in Google.  And secondly – can I get this image ranked in 1st position for a particular keyword phrase?

To make the challenge a little more amusing, I picked a phrase I could brag about later (assuming this works). 😉

So I'm going to give this a go and try to rank an image of me which should hopefully appear when people search google for the phrase best looking guy in perth. <evil grin>

So here's the image I'm going to try and rank:

Will it work?  Who knows.  Let's give it a few weeks and see what happens!?  If it does it will crack me up.  😉

Benefits of Ranking Images

So here's the reason why I'm doing this.  Images are easier to rank than pages on your website.  Especially for a competitive target keyword.  Why?  Because SEO guys spend a lot of time and energy tweaking their website, but spend very little time tweaking their images.

Images can also be turned into little banner ads which can help you remain front and centre on page 1 of google.  Have you noticed where images sometimes appear in the search results?

Traffic

Depending on what keywords you're trying to target or your niche, image optimisation can drive extra traffic.

This works even better on images where people are interested in details like in watches, dresses or makeup.

“How to articles” also have much to gain from image optimisation. When people are looking to learn something they often want to see a “visual” of how it is done.

Did the “Best Looking Guy In Perth” Experiment Work?

Well… SEO takes time.  Sometimes it's quick and sometimes it can take a few months – but let's come back in a few weeks and see how close I can get to becoming the best looking guy in perth. 😉

Post Follow Up

It's been a few weeks since this article was written so I thought I'd see how we're going.  I just did an image search in Google and noticed we have the top 5 out of 7 images for the search term ‘best looking guy in perth' coming from this article.  This is awesome, but not sure yet why the actual image I want to see at #1 isn't at #1 (instead of other images from this article).

And who is that buffoon to the left of my pic.  What does that say about the best looking guys in Perth – sheesh. 🙂   I'll review again in a few more weeks. 🙂

Post Follow Up – 3 months later

So 3 months later the right picture is finally at #1.  I must say it took a little longer than I expected for the right image to appear at #1 but we made it. 🙂

 

 
The images are also coming up in the normal Google search as well (not just image search). And this article is now at #2.
 

For those who were following this post, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Just another bit of SEO fun. Done. 🙂

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For this test I'm picking a pretty random phrase that my wife picked for me this morning “Hazelnut Coffee Expert“.  All the research I've done seems to indicate that I'll be on page 1 within minutes (yep you heard right – MINUTES!).  I didn't believe it either – so I wanted to put it to the test.

Firstly I wrote this article.  Then I created a google hangout with a link back to this article.

To see if the test worked (and stuck – depending on when you read this article) just do a google search for ‘hazelnut coffee expert' and see if I'm there. 🙂

So why Hazelnut Coffee Expert?  Well I just happened to be drinking a hazelnut coffee for the first time this morning and it was really nice.  So as a coffee drinker I thought I would let everyone know about my experience drinking hazelnut coffee and how great it is to have had that experience. 🙂 If you haven't tried hazelnut coffee, Nespresso has a great line of coffee pods and Hazelnut was one of their speciality coffees I bought a couple of months ago (but it sat in my cupboard all this time).

If you're game, give them a go and see if you like it too.  After you drink 1 cup, you too can become like me and become the next hazelnut coffee expert. 🙂

Rudy Labordus

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