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I'm surprised the Huffington Post isn't on that list being that in the last month half the posts are from there URL. I like how every post regardless of topic is praises Obama or bashes Hillary
LOL, Yea I saw that and didn't have time to change before I left. Although I like this idea of link building tactics for turtles.
LINK BUILDING FOR TURTLES
1. "Hide in your shell" - If you get spam Recip link requests. If you respond you will get put on a lsit you don't want to be on.
2: "Slow and steady" - Wins the race! Don't try getting a 100 links a day, just plug away a bit every day.
O.k. That's all I could think of. Anywho, thanks for the comments sorry for the mispell
When clients work with me on link building the campaign usually goes much smoother but every once in a while you get the person that knows just enough to be dangerous and throws months of hardwork out the window.
I have to say I disagree with this article and not becuase my paycheck depends on SEO quotes. Especially the directory submissions. You can use one of those budget submission services but you are going to get outdated garbage links from very general directories that are completely unrelated to your niche and are probably already banned by Google. With your argument why would anyone buy a new BMW M3 when they can get a used 1994 Honda Accord for so much cheaper. Also, I would GLADLY pay $3,000 for 100 links if they are of a high enough quality - get me 100 directories on PR5+, .edu, or .gov links and I’ll throw you more work then you can handle!
As far as articles I guess you can hire someone in India to rewrite an EzineArticle packed with grammatical errors for $15 but good luck trying to get an experienced writer in a client’s niche for less then $50 per page (research is what racks the hours up). As far as submitting again you can use that out of the box article submitting software that doesn’t update and half the sites use no follows. Not even worth the $15…
If you pay that company $50 for “guaranteed rankings” kiss your website creditability good bye. They all just use some type of SPAM links and they don’t care if your site gets banned or penalized - but I bet if you complain a bunch they will refund your $50 back… Remember, If they could really do this they would be billionaires running affiliate programs.
I for one don’t think SEO is expensive as long as it gets results. I’ve been running my company since 2001 and we are growing every year based on demand from referrals. If you can make more money for a client then their other advertising streams they will hire you. Once you do this several times you can start working 18 work days or charge $200 per hour and pick and choose the companies you want to work with. The reason SEO is becoming so expensive is because good internet marketing experts with proven track records are in high demand.
I don't think article reflects "why people may view their services as skepitcal as you state". Your cost break downs aren't very accurate and you're comparing those cheap oversea services verses good quality work that isn't just cookie cutter software submissions or poorly written barley understandable content.
This reminds me of a story a few years back when I client that instead of paying me to write their content and optimize it and they said they would do it as long as I give them a keyword list. I mailed the client 20 keyword phrases and to my surprise he had all the pages done next day. He used a portal page software that spit out generic page after page of spam. His logic "content is content and this is going to save me thousands a month"...
Moral of the story:
1. You get what you pay for.
2. Compare apples to apples
No offense man but this is some pretty bad advice. You want your site map to be prominent so the spiders (not to mention the visitor) can find all your pages. You never want to have it drill down into buried folders or use numbers as your anchor text. The methods you explain defeat all the benefits for having a sitemap both from a user and SEO perspective.
Not sure I agree copying others sitemaps for keywords is a great idea either because 99% of sites don't optimize their sitemaps and anyone with a few hours could probably build a better list themselves. Maybe it would help in the research process but I doubt it because the chances of finding a well optimized sitemap in your exact industry would take more time then its worth.
Lest not forget that 50% of all digg comments are just hyping Obama even if said comments have nothing to do with politics at all...
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