How Google Nearly Destroyed My 12-Year Old Business
"You haven't failed until you blame someone else." That's always been one of my favorite quotes and something I try to live by. So, I better rephrase the title of this article. It should be: "How I Nearly Destroyed My 12-Year Old Business ... By Making It Dependent on Google." MSW Interactive Designs is now a 17-year old business. I have waited five years to write about this one so that I would have a success story to share. And trust me, this isn't an easy thing to admit, let alone write about and share with the world. Rewind to very early in 2011. MSW Interactive was a 12-year old successful small web design and hosting company, with a nice secondary niche in the wedding marketing featuring wedding portals in 26 cities across the USA and an online retail store called WhereBridesGo.com . Our wedding portals dominated page one of Google, and our WhereBridesGo.com retail site consistently ranked in the top three listings of page one nationall