Anyone used any SEO Companies they can recommend for highly competitive niches?
Or anyone on here?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Or anyone on here?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Quote: (07-24-2013 11:27 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
IM,
Yes you can purchase backlinks and all that. However, it would give you a temporary boost till the next Big G update (and god knows they're becoming more and more frequent nowadays) and after that, poof, you'd be sand boxed again where you'd be relegated back into oblivion and be back at square 0.
I might consider a 10% SEO and 90% paid traffic but that's the farthest into SEO I'd venture.
Does SEO work? Yes.
Is it fast? No.
Is it a good long term strategy? Depends totally on the quality of the content on your site.
That's why I said above that the first thing I'd recommend is to have a top notch writer to write top notch content for your site. And speaking of top notch writers, there are a few on this very site. If I were to recommend one, I'd go with Beyond Borders. He is a top notch writer.
I'm not a big fan of SEO for the very simple reason that I prefer to see action asap. And with SEO, you better be very patient before you see any action.
I'm not saying you cannot get results with SEO. You can. However, what you'd be able to achieve with paid advertising in a day or two, would take you weeks if not months with SEO.
I value my time more than money, hence why I'm such a big advocate of paid traffic as I can see results almost instantly as soon as the ad goes live. Try that with SEO.
Quote: (07-24-2013 10:48 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
G,
SEO companies are not worth it, specially now in light of the latest Google Panda which reset and screwed up 99.99% of all the sites out there. Specially sites with crappy or questionable content. Big G (Google) only cares and wants to have and index (that is rank) high quality sites with top notch content. If I were you, I'd spent the money on a) getting a top notch writer to write you top notch content and b) spend money on paid traffic like PPC, Bing, FB or offline if your product is very specific and on the high end. Much much better investment and ROI than SEO companies. Plus it's INFINITELY faster to see results with paid traffic than SEO organic one. While SEO organic traffic is nice and dandy, the real $$$ is in paid traffic. With paid traffic you see result (traffic and sales) within minutes of the ad going live while with SEO, it takes months to see any action if any at all.
All in all, I wouldn't spend or rather waste a penny on a so called SEO companies. For what they charge, the ROI is not worth it. You can get a much better ROI and much much faster with paid traffic.
For someone who might be just starting out with limited to no marketing funds, SEO could make sense as they have more time than money. But for someone like you, who has money and wants to get things going asap, then paid traffic is where it's at.
Good luck man.
Quote: (07-24-2013 11:52 PM)InternetMarketer Wrote:
Quote: (07-24-2013 11:27 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
IM,
Yes you can purchase backlinks and all that. However, it would give you a temporary boost till the next Big G update (and god knows they're becoming more and more frequent nowadays) and after that, poof, you'd be sand boxed again where you'd be relegated back into oblivion and be back at square 0.
I might consider a 10% SEO and 90% paid traffic but that's the farthest into SEO I'd venture.
Does SEO work? Yes.
Is it fast? No.
Is it a good long term strategy? Depends totally on the quality of the content on your site.
That's why I said above that the first thing I'd recommend is to have a top notch writer to write top notch content for your site. And speaking of top notch writers, there are a few on this very site. If I were to recommend one, I'd go with Beyond Borders. He is a top notch writer.
I'm not a big fan of SEO for the very simple reason that I prefer to see action asap. And with SEO, you better be very patient before you see any action.
I'm not saying you cannot get results with SEO. You can. However, what you'd be able to achieve with paid advertising in a day or two, would take you weeks if not months with SEO.
I value my time more than money, hence why I'm such a big advocate of paid traffic as I can see results almost instantly as soon as the ad goes live. Try that with SEO.
"However, it would give you a temporary boost till the next Big G update"
Links from super-authority sites do not give you a temporary boost, their effectiveness lasts indefinitely.
I'm not talking about buying link packages for like 1,000 links for $100.
What I'm talking about is: Buying 1 Link from a website for $500-1000+ that is a super-authority.
I understand where you're coming from, because I'm almost certain you've never purchased these types of links. They will literally skyrocket your site to the rankings and last permanently, unlike paid advertising.
If G wants to promote his blog or another website that provides informational content, then I say find a guy who knows SEO!
If you are pushing a service or a product, use both! Paid advertising for initial traffic and constantly work on SEO for organic traffic later.
Quote: (07-24-2013 11:08 PM)InternetMarketer Wrote:
I completely disagree with you VP, practically on every point.
"it takes months to see any action if any at all." Completely wrong! You can purchase backlinks from high DA/PA/PR websites that have millions of backlinks to sky rocket your site's rankings for every keyword.
You could even purchase SAPE links and buy into private blog networks, if you really wanted to rank your site quickly. Google wouldn't touch, if you had a decent amount of content on the website.
If I were you G, I would definitely focus my efforts more on SEO.
Quote: (07-25-2013 08:43 AM)thegmanifesto Wrote:
Quote: (07-24-2013 11:08 PM)InternetMarketer Wrote:
I completely disagree with you VP, practically on every point.
"it takes months to see any action if any at all." Completely wrong! You can purchase backlinks from high DA/PA/PR websites that have millions of backlinks to sky rocket your site's rankings for every keyword.
You could even purchase SAPE links and buy into private blog networks, if you really wanted to rank your site quickly. Google wouldn't touch, if you had a decent amount of content on the website.
If I were you G, I would definitely focus my efforts more on SEO.
Thoughts on this?
Google Penalizes Another Link Network: SAPE Links Mar 7, 2013
Quote: (07-25-2013 02:00 PM)Alpha Mind Wrote:
Quote: (07-25-2013 08:43 AM)thegmanifesto Wrote:
Quote: (07-24-2013 11:08 PM)InternetMarketer Wrote:
I completely disagree with you VP, practically on every point.
"it takes months to see any action if any at all." Completely wrong! You can purchase backlinks from high DA/PA/PR websites that have millions of backlinks to sky rocket your site's rankings for every keyword.
You could even purchase SAPE links and buy into private blog networks, if you really wanted to rank your site quickly. Google wouldn't touch, if you had a decent amount of content on the website.
If I were you G, I would definitely focus my efforts more on SEO.
Thoughts on this?
Google Penalizes Another Link Network: SAPE Links Mar 7, 2013
The SEO advice here is unsavory.
SAPE links are for people who can't build links.
While a truly private network is an asset, most "private networks" are dropped domains purchased for the sake of the existing link profile and/or pagerank. What was on the domain previously? Likely, not what's on there now. Are all previous pages still up or at the very least redirected to the homepage? Probably not. If I can figure it out it under 30 seconds, so can the engineers in Google's web spam dept.
I've got plenty of churn and burn properties that drive revenue, but legit businesses will ALWAYS get slapped for this, eventually.
A link profile built entirely on paid links is weak strategy. Please, keep doing it. You enable me to double consulting fees every year.
Even if you're buying environmental links that may initially pass manual review, websites that sell links/advertorials can go from great to whored out in a matter of weeks.
I am a firm believer that the tortoise beats the hare, every time.
Quote: (07-25-2013 08:09 PM)torontokid Wrote:
To be honest though, you can acquire links from many major news sites with fairly low risk. Its not the news site itself that's selling the links, but rather editors/authors who write on there(usually individuals). If you have a high quality site its hard for anyone to suspect anything. I've seen my friends domains having links from extremely high quality high PR .edu pages just because they had a hookup of some sort or the other. You won't find these links publicly, but usually private skype chats etc.