I have two small niche websites that I really want to raise their search engine ranking. My budget is pretty low, but I don’t want to get negative results with some blackhat garbage.
Can anybody recommend someone to me?
Here’s the term I want to rank for.
"nerdcore"
Can you give me a quote for that?
SEO is primarily made of on-site optimization (meta tag, keyword density, content etc.) and off-site optimization (link building, site submission etc.). Outsourcing your SEO if they are not to be able to modify your content (which might not be SEO friendly) would not resolve the equation.
I usually recommend to work with a SEO firm or consultant who can work extensively with you, someone who has the heart of a teacher. Otherwise, make sure to work yourself on making your site seo-friendly and working on the content (content is king).
If you really want to outsource, there are some specialized websites where you can submit your project and have seo specialists compete for it. I would advise www.scriptlance.com, www.rentacoder.com, www.elance.com and www.guru.com.
Hope it helps.
Patrick
SEO Specialist based in Shanghai
E-mail: seo@seo4china.com
me. ; ) haha
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Here is how i can help you
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2 weeks to get to page 1 in google.
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Best choice might be to learn thr basics and do it yourself, as most SEO specialists charge at least over 11/hr.
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I think that price should not be your way to choose. Yes, budget is important, but what you need to do is look at the most professional, ones that do white hat SEo and have a proven record of sucess. Bad SEO can cause your site to be banned from the engines.
How To Pick An SEO Company
Study the SEO company
Read through the company website. Does the site list specific goals and techniques? Does it discuss using ethical (white hat) SEO techniques? Does it inspire confidence, or does it read like an empty sales pitch?
Check the company domain’s…click to see our whoisdetails . How long has the domain been registered for? Does the company list complete and accurate whois details? If the domain is new, or if the whois details aren’t listed, you may be looking at a fly-by-night company.
Study the SEO results
Start with the SEO company’s own website. But "SEO" has 118,000,000 results in Google, and "search engine optimization" has 27,200,000 results, so don’t expect the site to rank high for these generic terms. Also note that some SEO companies don’t try to optimize their own sites for SEO because they get most of their business through referrals.
The important SEO results to check are those of SEO companies’ clients. If they link to their clients’ sites from their sites, look for keyword phrases in the title and heading tags of those sites, and see how those sites do in search results for those keyword phrases. Look for backlinks to those sites by entering "link:domain.com" (with the right domain and without the quotation marks) in different search engines.
If the SEO company is on your shortlist, contact some of those clients to ask for feedback about the SEO company. Are they still using the SEO company’s services? Did they see an improvement in search results for their site, and have the improvements lasted? If they needed an SEO company for a new site, would they hire the same company?
Ask questions
The answers to these questions will show you if you’re dealing with experts or people who don’t really know what they’re doing.
What steps do you take to optimize websites for search engines? They may not want to tell you exactly what they do, but they should list steps such as researching and using keywords, making the coding search engine friendly, and getting inbound links. If they’re vague, or if they name black-hat techniques such as keyword stuffing or doorway pages, go to the next company on the list.
How do you do keyword research? They should start by learning what your site is about, what keywords already work for it, and how your business is different from the competition. A number of keyword suggestion tools are available, both free and paid. The important points are that the SEO company will research relevant, searched-for keywords for your site and that they’ll look for keyword phrases, not single keywords.
Do you offer guarantees? If they offer a guarantee other than a money-back guarantee, or a promise that they won’t accept payment until your site is on page X in the SERP for a specific keyword, don’t trust them. The SEO business is not one in which you can guarantee exact results.
What do you think of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines? If they don’t stay completely within these guidelines, your site could be in trouble.
What types of sites will you try to get inbound links from? The answer should be relevant, quality sites, including directories, but not including link farms. If they don’t think that inbound links are important for SEO, they aren’t going to get the desired results.
Do you work on improving the conversion rate? Improving the conversion rate is not SEO. But getting more traffic to your site won’t benefit you unless your site works well for site visitors after they arrive. If your conversion rate could use improvement and an SEO company can help with this area too, you benefit more. You can hire a separate company to work on your conversion rate, but they’ll need to be careful not to override any of the SEO work done to your site.
How do you keep up with changes in your field? The important point here is whether they do keep up with industry news. But you’ll probably know by the answers so far whether they do.
What payment structure do you use? Be wary of companies that ask you to pay the full amount at the beginning. If they’re going to be doing ongoing work for you, you should be able to pay at various stages.
Expect to be questioned
The SEO company representatives should have questions for you too. They should want to find out if your expectations are realistic and fit with the type of work they do. They’ll need to learn about your website, your audience, your competition, your focus, and your business goals.
Expect to wait
If the service is good, the company will be in demand, so there may be a waiting list. Start researching before you need the work to be done.
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http://www.ontheavenues.com/how-to-pick-an-seo.html
http://ontheavenues-diy-seo.blogspot.com/
Be careful! I met with the guy who claimed that his sites are at first page of major search engines. But When I saw their traffic rank it was between 1.5 to 2 millions. You must try some other methods for publicity.
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Yes,
Contact this person, there rates are great and I got an additional 10,000 hits a wekk from their campaign
holidayhelpersinc@comcast.net
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Even though you have a limited budget for hiring a competent SEO specialist, you may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website and placing various critical metatags can surely achieve a high search engine placement.
Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots.
A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots.
Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.
Placement of Metatags:
A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the Title metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The Title should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the Title is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.
The second metatag is the Description which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes the goods and services.
And the very last category – Keywords are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. "Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.
Here’s an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query "pizza downtown los angeles." It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where "Pizza Next Door" is ranked. It’s in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door’s high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo’s publication guidelines. Good luck!
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Half of SEO is content. If you want a higher ranking, you need content that people want to read. If your SEO firm doesn’t provide this, and they won’t find the proper keywords, they really aren’t SEOs.
SEO is an ongoing process. No one can SEO your website within a month, and expect it to receive high rankings. Don’t be fooled.
We have a huge database of SEO articles, proven small business marketing strategies at:
http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/seo-newsletters.html
Happy reading!
Serge
SEO Consultant
http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/
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http://affordable-search-engine-optimization-services.com/
SEO is primarily made of on-site optimization (meta tag, keyword density, content etc.) and off-site optimization (link building, site submission etc.). Outsourcing your SEO if they are not to be able to modify your content (which might not be SEO friendly) would not resolve the equation.
I usually recommend to work with a SEO firm or consultant who can work extensively with you, someone who has the heart of a teacher. Otherwise, make sure to work yourself on making your site seo-friendly and working on the content (content is king).
If you really want to outsource, there are some specialized websites where you can submit your project and have seo specialists compete for it. I would advise http://www.scriptlance.com, http://www.rentacoder.com, http://www.elance.com and http://www.guru.com.
Hope it helps.
Patrick
SEO Specialist based in Shanghai
E-mail: seo@seo4china.com
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