My Online Search for Mini Ping Pong Tables
post a comment | posted Feb 21
Let me start by saying I love playing Ping Pong. This dates back to my teen years playing games with my buddies in my best friend's basement.
Earlier in 2007 I was able to buy a table for my place of work for $50 bucks. What a steal! My co-workers play games on it daily and it has become a great stress reliever for breaks during and after the work day. View a YouTube video that our ping pong table starred in.
I have always wanted to buy a full-sized ping pong table for my condo, but realized I just don't have the room for it, except in my single car garage. Even storing it in my garage would take up almost an entire wall and leave no room for stuff like my ladder, garbage can, and grill.
This dilemma lead to my online search to try to find a high-quality and affordable mini ping pong table for my basement. Unfortunately, the search results didn't lead me to many options. After an extensive search of combing through bogus search engine listings (thanks again Google), I came across a few options, but they seemed overpriced and lacking quality.
Recently I came across two tables with promise: one at totaltabletennis.com for $249.99, and one at amazon.com for $146.87. Both are virtually the same exact tables, and I'm most likely going to purchase the one at Amazon and use a $50 promotional certificate I have. BUT, the certificate code is not working. That's another story.
Anywho, I came up with an idea to create a site for mini ping pong tables [http://www.minipingpongtables.com] to help searchers find the best tables for sale on the web. The site is a work in progress, but I intend to make it a valuable resource for those that have the same problem I had.
I see opportunities like this all the time from my experiences as a searcher on Google, but I don't always act on them due to my limited time for web projects. It is really unfortunate there are so many misleading/bogus results in the search engines. Also it makes me cringe to think of all the legitimate companies that fail to recognize the opportunity to optimize their websites for a specific key phrase like "mini ping pong tables".
Search engine optimization works! I have seen it firsthand dealing with many diverse clients with small to large websites. If you can't handle search engine optimization on your own, it is well worth the money to hire a search engine marketing firm (like Fathom SEO) or an individual consultant to get your site up to speed.