Archive for September, 2007
published by Gary in SEO Services
The first part: Why It Is Important To Choose The Right SEO Company
The search for the right SEO company begins with what you want to look for. Do you want a company that follows black hat SEO tactics and gets your website to the first page and then gets it banned for the rest of life or you want a company that implements legitimate SEO methods and achieves for you long-lasting higher rankings. I’ll safely assume you’ll go for the latter option. So let’s see
How you can find the right SEO company
- Don’t contact an SEO company that sends you spam: If you receive unsolicited overtures from an SEO company you can make out easily on the list of priorities for them the ethical practices appear at the bottom. If they are so callous and ignorant about their own business, how can you expect them to treat your business with respect?
- Take your budget and priorities into account: Some SEO companies are very expensive, some are very cheap, and some are just about affordable: it all depends on what’s your budget and how much you can afford to pay for particular SEO services. The right SEO company should not just fit the bill but it should also not cause you financial and business constraints.
- Do proper research: Once you’ve come across a seemingly suitable SEO company you should do some research on them on Google. See how they have performed or whether they have some negative feedback from their previous customers. You can also ask for references and contact people who might have written testimonials for the SEO company. Ask for a list of websites they have optimised for the client-asked keywords. Remember that your research is very crucial because your SEO company’s efforts are going to decide how successful your online business is going to be.
- Ask them what SEO practices they follow: Do they talk about putting invisible text on your website? Do they advise you to stuff keywords on your pages? Do they tell you that all your content should exist for the sole purpose of drawing traffic from search engines? Do they offer thousands of link-exchange opportunities? Do they recommend doorway pages? All these tactics are really bad for your SEO, and you should stay clear of such offers and companies making such offers. The right SEO company knows what’s right and what’s right in SEO and sticks to that. The right company will never make blind promises. In fact the right SEO company doesn’t promise you guaranteed top search engine rankings; it promises you a completely SEO friendly website.
- What sort of traffic does the SEO company talk about: You don’t want just any traffic on your website; you want traffic that converts, you want those people coming to your website who would like to do business with you, you want to generate qualified leads. The right SEO company perfectly understands this. It knows that 100 targeted visitors are far better than 10000 untargeted visitors.
Keep these things in perspective while looking for an SEO company and there is a great chance that you’ll find the right SEO company for your website.
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published by Gary in SEO Services
Your search engine optimisation efforts are as crucial as having a website because your website doesn’t solve any purpose if it doesn’t get targeted traffic from various search engines. Hence, it becomes imperative that you choose the right SEO company to increase your search engine rankings. This blog post will appear […]
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published by Gary in SEO Basics
Google and other search engines can penalise you for having duplicate content on your website. This may be intentional or unintentional on your part. If it is intentional then either you have your reasons or you can get rid of the problem. On the other hand if duplicate content is being generated on your website […]
Continue reading “How To Tackle The Duplicate Content Problem”
published by Gary in SEO Help Needed
I have a potential client that is currently using the YourAmigo search engine optimization spider linker. Until now this has been completely off my radar.
I am hoping that someone will have experience of this technology/service and be able to let me have a brief list of the advantages/disadvantages. How does it compare with having […]
Continue reading “YourAmigo - Advantages / Disadvantages ??”
published by Gary in On Page SEO
Web page length is different from web page size because you can have huge page without having much on it. For instance, lengthy JavaScript and heavy images can increase the size of your web page significantly without contributing to the content of your page. So for this blog post when I say page length […]
Continue reading “Does You Web Page Length Matter?”
published by Gary in Vista
I little bit off topic this, but having swapped to Vista on my main desktop a few months ago one of the many frustrations I have had is not being able to re-order the taskbar items. I do tend to be somewhat anal about this, on occasions even restarting a program so that I can […]
Continue reading “Vista Taskbar Shuffle”
published by Gary in Keyword Research
It is not often that I link to other posts, but today I cannot seem to help myself.
Rand has written “An Exhaustive List of Search Engine Based Keyword Research Data“, and fairly exhaustive it is. I read quite a few blogs on a daily basis and there very few post that have me searching […]
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published by Gary in Wordpress
The next major release of Wordpress 2.3 will be released on Monday. Aaron Brazell has posted an article with the a list of things you should know particularly if you are a developer.
Continue reading “Wordpress 2.3 - 10 Things you need to know”
published by Gary in Online Marketing | Organic SEO
No, I’m not against paid online marketing and sometimes it is necessary to indulge in it to get quick, timely exposure to your online business. Paid online marketing means running Pay-Per-Click campaigns and paying other webmasters (sometimes directly, sometimes through ad-brokers) to display your links and banners. Unlike natural search engine optimisation paid online marketing […]
Continue reading “Natural SEO Is Always Better Than Paid Online Marketing”
published by Gary in Back Links
Directory submissions are important for your search engine rankings as I’ve already discussed this in Importance of submitting to Web Directories. Since almost all online directories are human-edited (humans decide whether your link should be there or not) your primary tasks is to convince that unknown editor that your website deserves to be included. How […]
Continue reading “How To Prepare Your Website For Directory Submissions”
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