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Businesses Increasing SEO Activity

Good news for the SEO industry. In a recent survey conducted by Ray Silverstein where he asked entrepreneurs the question “How Are We Doing?”, results showed that despite the dismal economy businesses have been pouring in money to their websites and their SEO efforts. According to Silverstein, "Internet Activity Is Up A significant 76 percent of respondents reported that they’re relying more on web-related activities, especially with regards to marketing and sales. Of this group, 42 percent revamped their website or increased SEO activity. Others are using more email marketing and utilizing social networking. Bottom line: the low cost of internet activity ... 0 Comments

Good Blogs – Dead Blogs

Ever wondered where all the traffic you used to get have fizzled down? Ever wonder why wonderful content isn’t getting the attention it should be? Well, blogs being ever so a dynamic technology driven social phenomenon, defining parameters can be a killer. SEO is a very difficult thing to grasp for non-believers that a simple blog can earn you money easy. You might have all the killer titles and content, throw in the hottest keywords but you still get zit in terms of traffic, why? You might want to step back and take a look at something you might ... 0 Comments

Advantages of an In-house SEO – Part 4

4. Lots of Savings - For many businesses this is the factor that really comes to play when deciding between hiring a professional SEO or doing their campaign in-house. Though some might think that this should not be a factor to consider, while it might be true for bigger companies (don't be such cheapskates!), those with really low budgets can't really be blamed for trying to cut costs. There are some "professional SEO firms" out there that might offer their services at very reasonable prices (read: dirt cheap) but you should be wary ... 0 Comments

Advantages of an In-house SEO – Part 3

3. Learning from Your Mistakes - Mistakes are inevitable especially in the field of SEO where much of the factors and the weight of each factor is not really known even to the experts. Since search engines treat their algorithms as top secret material (and why not?) SEOs end up having to do much guess work to find out which really works or not. Of course since professional SEOs have been at it sometime amateur SEOs have the benefit of the resources they give. However if you're going to do your SEO yourself you will ... 0 Comments

Advantages of an In-house SEO – Part 2

2. Responsibility - Although you have absolute control over your SEO campaign its flip side is that you also carry the burden of sole responsibility for the campaigns outcome. In case of failure or problems you won't have anyone to blame but yourself. If you have an in-house team doing the job finding out who is responsible is also a lot easier. Pointing fingers and blame-shifting is less likely since everyone's responsibilities are clear cut. In another light since the SEO campaign being done is for your very own company then people working on the campaign will take ... 0 Comments

Advantages of an In-house SEO – Part 1

1. Absolute control - This is one of the major advantages of using an in-house SEO, especially if we're talking about YOU doing the SEO yourself. This means changes can be made the instant you make a decision. This results in time savings in a way since you won't have to wait for your decision and vision to be communicated properly, mulled over by your hired professionals, and confirmation to be sent back to you before they can even start making any changes. Even if you have to collaborate amongst yourselves it is much easier to call an ... 0 Comments

Advantages of an In-house SEO – Introduction

For the past several posts we've highlighted the advantages of hiring a professional SEO firm to handle your SEO campaign. For the next posts we will now talk about the advantages of an in-house SEO. By in-house SEO we mean to say that you don't need to hire additional people to develop and implement your SEO campaign for you. For a small business or a personal site that aims to go big this usually means that you yourself will be the in-house SEo. That means that you get to do SEO hands on and that regardless ... 0 Comments

Advantages of Hiring a Professional SEOs Part 3

6. Efficiency and Time - Perhaps this is one of the greatest advantages of hiring a professional SEO. Due to the vast experience of professional SEOs it follows that they are more efficient in dealing with things and as a result can and will save you a lot of time in terms of project planning and implementation. SEO IS very time consuming and if someone inexperienced handles your SEO campaign you can be sure that either you won't be able to follow your desired timetable or that if you do your timetable will be much longer as ... 0 Comments

Advantages of Hiring a Professional SEOs Part 2

4. Link Building Skills - Link building is a very important aspect of SEO. SEOs who do not have enough experience in link building often stumble when they get to this and even sometimes end up using rather questionable methods just to build links. Professional SEOs on the other hand have the ability to build links in a shorter time because of their experience with communities in the web, the popular and relevant sites related to those communities, and ways to acquire links like the requirements of certain sites (paid links, link submissions, etc.). 5. Identifying and Promoting ... 0 Comments

Advantages of Hiring a Professional SEOs Part 1

1. Experience - Professional SEOs are called thus because they have plenty of experience with doing SEO. Their experience is a big advantage because they've gotten to see and fix more problems and so know what to expect and do with your specific optimization project. 2. Contacts - Professional SEOs of course have contacts within the SEO industry that can help your SEO campaign. This doesn't necessarily mean bribery but they are usually more up to date regarding important SEO information and issues due their contacts (esp. contacts in search engine companies). They also usually have contacts with ... 0 Comments