Kyle Ritter

I’ve been recently watch many of my sites climb to #1 – #3 spots for their terms across all of major search engines. This has been a slow process, for some sites it took years. I hadn’t even checked my logs for monthes on one particular site, and when I finally did, I saw that it’s traffic had quadrupled in that time, mostly from the SEs. This opened up a door to explore more business relationships that were previously closed to me. While this is still shaky ground, if google decides my sites aren’t all that special, then it’s back to square run. Such is business though. It’s amazing how this kind of positioning improved my business clout, when before I had nothing to bring to the table. It all sounds so silly, like such an intangible and unstable piece of collateral. Very strange indeed.

Seems that where ever I live, I always end up making a website or twenty about it. So now I’ve been back in Portland for 8 months or so, and what do I do? First my pal Jason the Videographer and I built our Portland Bar review website and blog. Now, when I really should be doing other work, I started up the Portland Oregon Directory.

If you know me, I’ve got a fairly large hard-on for using geeking phrases like “geo-targeting”, so I think that is why I keep building these freakin’ sites. Anybody wanna buy some of my regional-centric domains that currently do nothing?

I have recently added Rectangle Gable Vents to TheBuilderStore.com gable end vent inventory. This has lead to an increased number of inquiries from homeowners due in part to search engine traffic and Froogle feeds. While my true goal is to sell to home builders, contractors, and architects, increasing the sales volume from homeowners does help with exposure and our marketing efforts. I am very excited about the future of this website.