Online Optimising

Old Gill

Im inundated with emails each day from companies who want to optimise my websites and put me higher up the rankings. I already have someone doign this with good results but wanted to know if anyone else use these companies and if so what results? Would you recommend and what do you pay? Do they continually optimise it or so it just once a month or so?

D.W

If you get unsolicited emails then its spam and run a mile form these companies...

conolan

Also be aware that SEO is one hell of a black-magic smoke and mirrors thing. It's so easy for people to claim great results, but you've got to be realistic.
if your business is unique or very niche, then you can get good search engine results for VERY NARROW search criteria. If your business is common, then you have to mix it with lots of others and it will take months or years to be high in a search.
The best thing is to get genuine links. IE other websites that refer to your site or business. Forget about big link swaps.

Old Gill

conolan wrote: »

Also be aware that SEO is one hell of a black-magic smoke and mirrors thing. It's so easy for people to claim great results, but you've got to be realistic.
if your business is unique or very niche, then you can get good search engine results for VERY NARROW search criteria. If your business is common, then you have to mix it with lots of others and it will take months or years to be high in a search.
The best thing is to get genuine links. IE other websites that refer to your site or business. Forget about big link swaps.

Thanks so links on other sites will bump it up. Say I have about 5 or 6 links should that make a big difference or are you talking about 100's?

D.W

Old Gill wrote: »

Thanks so links on other sites will bump it up. Say I have about 5 or 6 links should that make a big difference or are you talking about 100's?

Totally depends on the perceived "value" of these 5 or 6 links you have, the competitiveness of the terms you want to rank for and a number of other factors such as your anchor text, number of outbound links on the pages you mention etc..

But in a nutshell yes it will assist if done right-but what exactly is a "big difference" depends on your criteria. Some sites will move up with one decent link in fairly non competitive niches-others require a lot more so it all is relevant really.

byrne0f56789

Link building is hard and time consuming. There is no quick fix to SEO. The key is your content. It must be good enough for others to link to. It's also a good idea to facilitate this by having a social bookmarking widget on every page.