Recommended SEO companies??

[GetQuotes.co.uk]

Hi all

Can anyone please offer some contacts for SEO companies that are both affordable and that deliver results!!!!? Ideally I would like contacts that people have experience with, people you are happy to recommend!

I have done some basic SEO and link building on my site but I think Its time to get some experts in!

Are there any companies that invoice on volume's of increased traffic etc?

Cheers

Matt

[Carl-CSNM]

Tin (http://ukbusinessforums.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=4988) always gets recommended on here for SEO.

[GetQuotes.co.uk]

Cool may drop him a PM later...

Its my PR I want to increase at the mo I only have a PR2 and want to get it up higher!

Current Rankings:
PageRank: 2/10
Alexa Rank: Not Ranked

Incoming Google Links: 3
Incoming Yahoo Links: 4,059
Incoming MSN Links: 0
Incoming Alexa Links: 2
Overall Incoming Links: 4,064 (Overlap is possible - Estimated 4,059 unique links)
Outgoing Links: 28 (Ratio: 0.107% - Each Link Receives Approx. 0.061 PR)

[DuaneJackson]

If all you care about is PR (as opposed to quality traffic) then just concentrate on gettign in more links. You need a linkbuilder, not an SEO!

[GetQuotes.co.uk]

Sorry Duane my understanding of SEO/Link building is only basic!

I thought a higher PR would deliver more traffic? I guess I need both volume and quality ;)

If anyone can offer any advice on how to get better results and traffic I would be grateful :)

[DuaneJackson]

PR on its own wont necassarily get you more traffic. You shouldn't use PR or alexa rankings or anything like that to measue the success of your online marketing.

Concentrate in ranking highly for keywords that generate decent traffic for you that converts into sales.

Using Pay-per-click (ie Adwords) can be a great way of determining which search phrase convert well for you and hence are worth putting in the money/effort to rank highly for inthe natural search results.

A good SEO would cover all this with you anyway. I'm sure there are a few good SEOs on here, but Tin is the only one I can recommend as he's the only one I've ever worked with.

[RayB]

Its my PR I want to increase at the mo I only have a PR2 and want to get it up higher!

Why, are you not selling anything? I want to increase sales = profits. No interest in PR here then.

PS you have been given some excellent advice from posts preceeding this one........

[systima]

I recommend us

We are good and affordable

[Yorganic]

I recommend Yorganic for search engine optimisation ;)

Do you have a budget. You're in a competitive market covering a wide range of topics. Budget will the important factor.

Carl

[SteveGibson]

Are there any companies that invoice on volume's of increased traffic etc?

You could talk to Sirearl.

If he likes your business, he'll charge you nothing up front ... he'll just take half your profits ... forever.

Tin is the most frequently recommended SEO on UKBF and, IMO, deservedly so.

Steve

[ScottB]

Like others have said, don't worry about your PageRank - it's only one of many factors in the ranking process and the PR you see on the toolbar isn't an accurate reflection of your site's actual PR.

Is it for GetQuotes?

If so I think you are unlikely to get someone priced in a way that would offer a good return on the investment. Your site is essentially covering several different (competitive) markets - there's 2 problems there:

1. Individually those markets (games console comparisons, credit cards etc) are competitive and would take a well established and well promoted site to achieve decent results with SEO.

2. While your site has some functionality, the amount of affiliate banners and Adsense will most likely hold it back from achieving anything remotely close to SEO success.

If you were coming to me for a SEO strategy, you would be looking at the better part of £5k - £10k but that would pretty much be telling you how to take your 30 page site and turn it into a 1000 page monster, and that's before my monthly fees for link building. :)

I'd guess that most agencies and experienced consultants would be round about the same price range.

If you were to go with the lower end of the price range, I'm sure you could get a SEO strategy that would basically just tackle your currrent content and not focus on where you should be aiming for in the medium to long term. This "might" return some results for you, but I think even then you would still be pushed to be able to justify even the low cost.

I'm guessing that you built the site yourself and / or are sufficiently tech savvy to be able to implement SEO work yourself?

If so, I would recommend checking out some serious guides to SEO and think about doing it all yourself. SeoBook.com is an excellent book by Aaron Wall - he's a highly respected SEO and has a great grasp of business - his ebook is well worth the £100 quid or so. From there, begin to implement what you learn and hang around some SEO forums asking for feedback on what you've done so far so you know you're on the right track.

Some good forums (can't post links yet so just Google em! :)):

v7n
platinax
searchenginewatch
webmasterworldThere are others, but these are the ones I've either learned from or contribute to regularly - all are headed up by excellent, experienced SEOs.

It really depends how you want to approach your business strategy - if you're aiming to simply run the site for as low cost as possible to maximise any profit, then the DIY approach would be better. However, if you intend to expand your site - more products, more information, more of a national focus to it - then I would consider putting money into other areas before SEO - eg content development, graphic design (in some areas - your logo is cool but I think the general page layout needs work) and so on.

From there, a basic PPC campaign could be a good way to kick things off while you weigh the pros and cons of professional SEO services. PPC can be lower cost and much better to measure success - it scales relatively well and can be great for new businesses or projects just starting off.

Other than all that, all I could recommend is stay away from big SEO agencies - even if you won't get much benefit from their services, they will still sell them to you (whilst waving their big brand clients in front of you) and you usually end up with a crappy templated document that all small business clients get. :)

Scott

[GetQuotes.co.uk]

Some great advice folks! Thanks :)

Scott I am about to rebuild the site to focus on purely the finance and insurance areas which is what GetQuotes should be all about really! That should reduce the amount of affiliate links.

I think I need more content, lots of it, that I can do... Link building I have been busy with over the last 4 months or so, its whatever else I am missing that I need to get to grips with! Yes I did build the site and have done what SEO I understand but I feel like I have come to a point where I can do no more! After the rebuild the site will be more focused, that will help with a visitors experience and I have done a deal with one of the market leaders in instant online quotes, enabling people to get multiple quotes via my site for all manner of insurance sectors in a matter of minutes and that will be encorporated into the rebuilt site....

What I ideally would like to do is offer a % of the business ownership and profits to an SEO company or expert who can take the site on leaps and bounds... The name GetQuotes would be easily to market its obvious to a consumer to understand what the site will do I think?! I'm happy to plough back any money the site makes back into the SEO and marketing for as many years as it takes to make it a success!

[ScottB]

It sounds like you are taking a good approach to it - a more selective appraoch to product offering is usually a good improvement for most websites and it does help with SEO.

Feel free to send me a PM if you'd like to chat about SEO related things privately. :)

Cheers
Scott

[sirearl]

You could talk to Sirearl.

If he likes your business, he'll charge you nothing up front ... he'll just take half your profits ... forever.



You did not have to rub the forever bit in;)

In any case at my age forever might not be that long:)

Not my cup of tea .

go along with Tin being the most recommended SEO on here.

Earl

[UKSBD]

In my opinion, your wasting your time unless you go niche and aim to pick
up long tail results.
The financial and insurance market is full of big players with in-house SEO
divisions, you won't be able to beat them unless you have big pockets.

[sirearl]

In my opinion, your wasting your time unless you go niche and aim to pick
up long tail results.
The financial and insurance market is full of big players with in-house SEO
divisions, you won't be able to beat them unless you have big pockets.


agreed exactly why its not my cuppa.to much effort to get up there and not sure about the pecentage reward.:)

Earl

[GetQuotes.co.uk]

In my opinion, your wasting your time unless you go niche and aim to pick
up long tail results.
The financial and insurance market is full of big players with in-house SEO
divisions, you won't be able to beat them unless you have big pockets.

I appreicate that competing with them is near impossible! But that said they all started small and if I can grow the site over time and start generating just half decent revenue then I will plough it all back into the site, I don't want to feel beaten even before I begin but I appreciate how hard it will be :eek:

[sirearl]

I appreicate that competing with them is near impossible! But that said they all started small and if I can grow the site over time and start generating just half decent revenue then I will plough it all back into the site, I don't want to feel beaten even before I begin but I appreciate how hard it will be :eek:


The impossible we do immediately,Miracles take a tad longer.:cool:

Earl

[ScottB]

Nah very few big companies have competent in house SEOs - most use agencies and it is entirely possible compete on the same level as them. Just takes time, effort, resources and a little bit of creative thinking. It takes a certain type of person to do in house SEO - while it's true that some enjoy doing big brand work on a competitive salary, the majority of quality SEOs out there are independent / business owners and can earn infinitely more than any agency or big brand can pay them.

Major financial institutions implement average SEO and do well down to the sheer weight of their domains (and usually SEO agencies sit back and take all the credit!). Smaller outfits have a much harder hill to climb, but it's still doable.

That's why I'm addicted to SEO - small players can always compete with big players without exception. There's only so far a big brand budget can leveredge a competitive advantage in the SERPs before you are just pouring cash down the drain. The sad reality is that most big brands are still way behind the rest of the industry in terms of Internet marketing.

The real competition is the other comparision / affiliate sites run by competent SEOs. That's probably the only aspect that would make worry about entering the market, but at the end of the day, competition is competition - it's no fun if it's too easy. ;)

Scott

(Hey Earl, are you Earl Grey from Syndk8?)

[sirearl]

Nah very few big companies have competent in house SEOs - most use agencies and it is entirely possible compete on the same level as them. Just takes time, effort, resources and a little bit of creative thinking. It takes a certain type of person to do in house SEO - while it's true that some enjoy doing big brand work on a competitive salary, the majority of quality SEOs out there are independent / business owners and can earn infinitely more than any agency or big brand can pay them.



Scott

(Hey Earl, are you Earl Grey from Syndk8?)

Agree entirely,SEO is a pretty level playing field,and don't it give you a kick,beating the pomp and ceremony brigade on the SERP's.;)

Even had companies ring us up asking us to reduce our presence on the results ,as it was effectng there business :D

And Channel 4 doing there nut and threatening legal action over "big brother" ;)

No I am not Earl Grey ,I ain't that articulate :(

Earl

[gajarvis]

Yes, Weboptimiser.com.

[GetQuotes.co.uk]

Well I thought it may be time for an update....

I never did 'get in bed' with an SEO - if you'll pardon the expression :D

Instead I sacked off the old site and started to build a brand new one, took me a month of evenings and weekends and went live in April this year...

Performing loads better than the old site! Still nowhere near where I think it 'could' be but I may have a better chance in finding an SEO / Link builder to get involved now?

Would be nice to put a SEO 'team' together, 8 Guru's all taking 10%, a challenge to see if some more competitive keywords are attainable!

[thinkfast]

Sorry Duane my understanding of SEO/Link building is only basic!

I thought a higher PR would deliver more traffic? I guess I need both volume and quality ;)

If anyone can offer any advice on how to get better results and traffic I would be grateful :)

Only Good PR you can get just after doing some submission work like directory submission forum posting etc because backlinks can give you PR does not matter backlinks have some quality or poor.

But if you are looking for targeted traffics with Good PR then you should do quality and complete link building for your site.

You can do or hire any professional for link building services as below.

Manual Directory submission
Article Submission
Press release
Classified ads
forum posting
blog commenting
Blog creation and promotion
social bookmarking
Join Social network sites and community sites
Search myspace, squidoo pages for your tags and join and submit comment there.

etc.

There are lots of way on which you have to do work continue for regular traffics to your site.

Thanks :)

[Ali-v-8]

Hi Matt,

I have page one position one on google for apply for insurance.

PM me if your interested

[thinkfast]

Hi Matt,

I have page one position one on google for apply for insurance.

PM me if your interested

Please post detail that what you want to say.

Offering or looking ?

Thanks :)

[Ali-v-8]

I have a website that we have targeted key terms like apply for insurance (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apply+for+insurance&meta=), apply for travel insurance (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apply+for+travel+insurance&meta=), Apply for car insurance (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apply+for+car+insurance&meta=).
If you are interested in being promoted in the natural listings i would be happy to provide you with a quote.

[thinkfast]

I have a website that we have targeted key terms like apply for insurance (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apply+for+insurance&meta=), apply for travel insurance (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apply+for+travel+insurance&meta=), Apply for car insurance (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=apply+for+car+insurance&meta=).
If you are interested in being promoted in the natural listings i would be happy to provide you with a quote.

Hi,

I am providing

Manual Directory Submission
Regional Directory Submission
Article Submission
Social Bookmarking
Press Release
Classified
Forum Posting

Me and my team is very friendly with above work.

please send us your requirement that what do you want for your site?

If you need other way for promotion then please send us details with your budget.

Feel free to contact us for any suggestions or inquiries at suraj.client@gmail.com

Thanks :)

[WebWise]

Hi,
I would like to recommend ourselves. You can visit us at webwisesearch.co.uk. We offer a complete range of SEO services all designed to generate a greater listing within Google and drive more traffic to your site and therefore hopefully increase your revenue.

We consider ourselves to be amongst the best value for money on the internet today, and would be happy to provide a FREE NO OBLIGATION report on your sites current status along with advice.

We are also happy to provide examples and references of clients currently acheiving first page rankings on Google

[iahnalcantara]

You didn't state how much was your budget range but anyways, try contact
Arttechstudio.com or search in search engines. :)

[AllieB]

New to UKBF. Am also looking for decent SEO help for a new and small business. See Tin mentioned. Who is this, and can anyone recommend (him, or other).

[marketingquotes]

Hi Allie,

We can help you get some quotes for this. If you want to click the link on our signature and select 'seo' from the list.

Regards,

Marketing Quotes Support.

[Ali-v-8]

wow this was an old thread, brought back some good memories.

[mud-stx]

how about Ali-V-8, he's really good and knows the industry well?

[Ali-v-8]

threads really old would have been done bu now... infact should take a look see

[DavidThompson72]

Hi all,

My sister used a company called semtelligence. She had previously spent over 2k with another company to optimise her wedding photography site and she didnt even rank in the first 3 pages! Her business was really struggling when we were referred to semtelligence by another photographer.

Their head of seo is a gentleman called Lee, based in the north east, my sister didnt have to pay until they got her a top position, they had an agreement in place - it was risk free for her and really affordable. The site has continued to stay on the first page, she has to 100/200 or so every 3/6 months for local links building but all in all she is doing great and fully booked this year and half of next year.

Shocking that they charged less than half of what the other company did. We definitely recommend this company as you have nothing to lose and there are no surprises. 5 stars!