Can anyone recommend an SEO consultant?

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by anonuser09 • 17 years ago

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Looking to hire an SEO consultant who has proven ability to produce results.

dcnstrct2• 17 years ago

SEO is about two things -- site architecture and correct promotion.

Many people can help you with the fundamentals of getting your site together but most of the action is in marketing your site and frankly, having a good site and product that people want to talk about.

Beware of tricks and claims of performance. Many people can do things to manipulate your ranking in the short run but you will be punished long run. Think quality content and alignment with your target audience and you will be fine.

dshah• 17 years ago

Actually, SEO is about just one thing:

1. Creating exceptional content that is "rank worthy" and that people will link to.

After you've created great content, if you've got time, then do the basics to make it easy for search engines to find that content and index it.

dcnstrct2• 17 years ago

I agree the most important thing is great rank worthy content.

However, if you build that content all in flash, setup your robots.txt incorrectly, or any of a number of other technical snafus then you can screw up your rankings. Hence why it is important to be setup in the right way for the search engines to find you. Otherwise you will miss out on on most of the traffic.

I've done full SEO campaigns with larger budgets and currently manage millions of paid media on search engines and other places.

kentf• 17 years ago

pbhj2• 17 years ago

You look good for the offsite viral elements!

pbhj2• 17 years ago

At what level. Try SEOmoz.org, either use them or see their listings of SEOs.

Also if you're not bothered about ethics, only about performance then you're pretty much guaranteed that a search on "seo consultant" will return the best seo consultants. Depending on your target region you may want to check a different SE, Google for UK, Baidu for China, Yandex for Russia, etc.; in some areas there's a reasonably split or indeed to test the SEOs effectiveness then crossmatch on 2 or 3 SE.

As dcnstrct says it's about onsite and offsite optimisations. On site is a technical process largely, off-site is a vast art as broad really as marketing in general.

fallentimes• 17 years ago

Seobook.com is also excellent. There's so much misinformation & snake oil out there you really need to be careful.

andylei• 17 years ago

>> you're pretty much guaranteed that a search on "seo consultant" will return the best seo consultants.

this is pretty much the only subject where, by definition, the google search gives you the best results.

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

I do SEO. Mostly for startups / small businesses, with a few special projects for larger companies. Your exact needs are a little unclear -- ping me if you'd like to add some detail, and I'll see what I can recommend.

nippi2• 17 years ago

I use www.seoguys.com.au

(1) They guarantee results. (2) Only take a 5% commission till results are achieved, and maintained for a period of time. (3) Have a list of clients you can contact, to see if they are really legit. (4) Only use Google approved methods, so you never need to worry about getting "busted" and losing your rankings.

bmelton• 17 years ago

5% on what scale? I run a breakeven message board that could benefit significantly from SEO, but it's current revenue model is ad driven, and only breaks even most of the time ($75 a month is break even.)

aaronblohowiak• 17 years ago

$2000 flat fee for page 1 of google for most people for a single term (from their website.) So, $100.

dbul• 17 years ago

http://www.brandingbrand.com/

jacquijones• 17 years ago

I am an SEO consultant based in Brisbane, Australia who can assist you with technical optimization guidance, content optimization and link building. My website is http://www.keywordintent.com/ - please let me know if you require a proposal through the contact form on my site. I usually include an initial assessment of your website and current visibility within search engines within the proposal.

talk soon - Jacqui Jones

andreyf• 17 years ago

I used to work at conductor.com - if you can afford it, they can hook you up with a lot of publishers who want to sell outbound links, among other things.

xefyr• 17 years ago

http://trureputation.com/

benhoyt• 17 years ago

We've succesfully used John Hyde at http://www.sitedoublers.com/

See my comments about him here: http://blog.brush.co.nz/2009/08/site-doublers/

hikari17• 17 years ago

I'm currently taking an SEO/SEM class through Digital Bootcamp in Chicago. Jerome Harvey is our instructor. Based on my admittedly brief experience with him so far, I can enthusiastically recommend him. He's already helped improve our site's rankings.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jerome-harvey/1/961/41b

known• 17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_action

Can anyone recommend an SEO consultant?

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