SEO Company Recommendations

[vitalcertificates]

Hi,

I currently utilise the services of an SEO company but am now considering alternative providers. I currently find that there is too little effort being put in, and whilst we have made some increases over the past 12 months (I know that you have to give these things some time to measure the effectiveness) I have only seen a smattering of articles, link work, forum posts, or content alterations. As such, I don't believe that we are seeing sufficient returns for the investment.

We do not have a massive budget compared to some of those on here, but currently have £500+vat per month allocated.

I would be really interested to get some recommendations from people with similar-sized budgets, for an SEO company or individual to work with.

If you need more details from me to be able to make a better recommendation, just let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Matt

 

[JohnnyCash]

£500 a month? Spend it all on content, add backlinks to each article and upload them via myblogguest.com ($20 a month account needed).

You don't need an seo company to help you spend £500... would only take a couple of hours input from you a month and you'd get maximum bang for your buck.

 

[sigurog]

There are plenty of good seo companies and consultants on this forum that are certainly worth talking to regarding your seo needs. I think the best advice is to contact several, get quotes and proposals from them and get a feel for them as a company.

I wouldn't want to recommend myself but if you would like a seo analysis and proposal please private message me and I would be more than happy to provide you with one.

 

[open sesame]

JohnnyCash = Nail on Head

I'd take that 'monkey' and turn it into 25, 500 word articles a month.

And like he said signup to myblogguest for $20 and add them.

Thats your link building right there, not only that but your see traffic from the websites themselves and if you got a signup form, facebook page etc you could see some of that action happening as well.

I use a copywriter who is mustard, his a ex-editor of a paper and mag who's just turned his skills to SEO copywriting.

If you want me to put you in touch send me a message on here and ill send you email and number of this dude.

He currently does 15 articles a month for me.

Gees sounds like im on a referral fee, trust me im not his just good.

 

[Dominic Taylor]

Talk to Peter @ Cybernautix, they work with us and do a great job. Number 1 for 'cpanel hosting', above cPanel themselves and even 'cpanelhosting.com'!

Copywriting is also vital but I can't help there at the moment, maybe once our new site is up and the results come in...

 

[open sesame]

Nice website Dominic, looks like your guy did a good job.

 

[Codefixer]

£500 a month? Spend it all on content, add backlinks to each article and upload them via myblogguest.com ($20 a month account needed).

You don't need an seo company to help you spend £500... would only take a couple of hours input from you a month and you'd get maximum bang for your buck.

Just to add a bit to what Johnny says, in myblogguest you can become a paid member and upload your articles to a category within their article gallery. Members looking for blog posts and content can come across your article and make you an offer to post it on their site. You can accept it or reject it.

So as to protect your content, only a couple of paragraphs are shown.

It's relatively painless.

 

[rendy]

Some useful info in this thread chaps, thanks very much!

Is myblogguest the best guest blogging meeting place out there?

 

[vitalcertificates]

Thanks to you all for taking the time to reply. I do wonder about article marketing for us though. We are in a very niche market where I doubt there are 25 different articles that could actually be written! My experience of article marketing is not great though so I might be missing something here. Or is it just potentially a very similar article written 10 times over with slightly different long-tail keyword-based titles?

 

[RadiusBPO]

Thanks to you all for taking the time to reply. I do wonder about article marketing for us though. We are in a very niche market where I doubt there are 25 different articles that could actually be written! My experience of article marketing is not great though so I might be missing something here. Or is it just potentially a very similar article written 10 times over with slightly different long-tail keyword-based titles?

They don't need to be exactly about whatever you do, they can be vaguely related.

 

[Ali-v-8]

Looking at your homepage your paying too much

 

[open sesame]

What you got is tons of websites, which are willing to offer you a backlink in exchange for some good content for there readers.

They don't want 500 word articles on the 'Callaway FT9 Driver' they want a tutorial on how to swing a driver, how to clean a driver, top 10 drivers etc.

Your not looking to push your products in the article your looking for people to be interested in the article and willing to share it, link to it etc.

If you only sell guitar picks, you can still write 25 articles a month, on how to read tabs, how to clean your guitar, how to restring a guitar, how to hold a pick etc.

What industry you in?

 

[Dominic Taylor]

Nice website Dominic, looks like your guy did a good job.

I got your unedited post in an email so will reply anyway

Site design was nothing to do with SEO. Current site is a couple years old and at the time the idea was to add image rotation onto the homepage but, since we did the site all in-house, we had to get back to running the business.

New site is on its way and it has a variety of beautiful, modern, corporate, friendly imagery

 

[vitalcertificates]

Looking at your homepage your paying too much

What's our homepage got anything to do with it? Is there anything constructive you wanted to add? As most people don't hit our homepage, as we direct inbound links directly to what is on-topic for them, the homepage is pretty much the last place we look at for any SEO work. Hmmm :|

 

[vitalcertificates]

What you got is tons of websites, which are willing to offer you a backlink in exchange for some good content for there readers.

They don't want 500 word articles on the 'Callaway FT9 Driver' they want a tutorial on how to swing a driver, how to clean a driver, top 10 drivers etc.

Your not looking to push your products in the article your looking for people to be interested in the article and willing to share it, link to it etc.

If you only sell guitar picks, you can still write 25 articles a month, on how to read tabs, how to clean your guitar, how to restring a guitar, how to hold a pick etc.

What industry you in?

Thanks, that helps We specialise predominantly in the legalisation of documents for people trading or relocating overseas. So by what you have said, I should be looking at articles to do with relocating overseas (including the legalisation of their documents) which will have a link to the legalisation service, as well as potentially a main page link in a biog at the end?

 

What's our homepage got anything to do with it? Is there anything constructive you wanted to add? As most people don't hit our homepage, as we direct inbound links directly to what is on-topic for them, the homepage is pretty much the last place we look at for any SEO work. Hmmm :|

In general that would be a big mistake as the home page nearly always carries more ooomph.

Earl

 

[sigurog]

Thanks, that helps We specialise predominantly in the legalisation of documents for people trading or relocating overseas. So by what you have said, I should be looking at articles to do with relocating overseas (including the legalisation of their documents) which will have a link to the legalisation service, as well as potentially a main page link in a biog at the end?

Yes this is correct and by doing this you can build up relevant anchor text links from a wide source of blogs that are topically relevant. There is still much more you need to do to succeed in link building as this is simply one method but it is a really good one in fairness.

 

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[Mattk1983]

£500 a month? Spend it all on content, add backlinks to each article and upload them via myblogguest.com ($20 a month account needed).

could someone explain this in a bit more detail to me??

do you still publish the articles on your own site?

 

[open sesame]

Its $20 subscription fee to use the service (use myblogbuest website).

You create a article with a anchor text link back to a page on your own website which is relevant to the anchor text.

You put your article up in the 'Article gallery', where blog owners can preview a snippet of your article.

If they like it and want to publish it on there blog, they ask to use it (you may get a few blog owners making an offer).

You give the one which will benefit you the most the content and in return you get a backlink and exposure to there followers.

If the blog is relevant to your website, so the blog has tutorials on swinging a golf club and your website sells irons with a signup form to receive great deals on irons then you could find a few followers of the blog signup to this as well.

You get the picture

 

[pod11]

I would split it between:
1) Great Content (a bit Mat Cutts I know!) but get your content on the site, change it when relevant and post some decent Press Releases or News articles, as although you will pay for them, you will get better credibility and reach. (look for paid press release - PR articles: fire, webwire etc
2) Some relevant articles or interactive posts on your blog.
3) Build some niche links the old fashioned way with related sites. Serach for, contact and build.
Little and often!
That's how I spend my budget and it seems to work.

 

[Mattk1983]

ok, so its not actually content for your own site?

 

[open sesame]

no, it's content for someone else's site in exchange for a link.

 

[RevaxMedia]

Drop us an email

 

[pendipidy]

Its $20 subscription fee to use the service (use myblogbuest website).

You create a article with a anchor text link back to a page on your own website which is relevant to the anchor text.

You put your article up in the 'Article gallery', where blog owners can preview a snippet of your article.

If they like it and want to publish it on there blog, they ask to use it (you may get a few blog owners making an offer).

You give the one which will benefit you the most the content and in return you get a backlink and exposure to there followers.

If the blog is relevant to your website, so the blog has tutorials on swinging a golf club and your website sells irons with a signup form to receive great deals on irons then you could find a few followers of the blog signup to this as well.

You get the picture

Whats to stop them taking the blog anyway, or if they use the whole thing, removing your links?

 

[JohnnyCash]

If they remove your link they'll get their membership cancelled. It would be pointless to pay $20 a month to steal content there as you'd quickly be kicked out. And its not like there aren't a million other places you could steal content from if that was your aim.

 

[open sesame]

They will be removed from myguestblog, wont receive any guest posts meaning they will have to create there own content, good blogs need a lot of content to survive.

 

[Mattk1983]

so its generally agreed that getting an inbound link is better use for an article than just adding to your own sites content with it? :|

 

[JohnnyCash]

so its generally agreed that getting an inbound link is better use for an article than just adding to your own sites content with it? :|

Generally, yes.

If the article you're talking about is not brilliant quality then the answer is going to almost always be yes... as it stands next to no chance of getting backlinks on its own merit on your own siote. So you might as well put it on someone elses site and gets a single guaranteed backlink.

 

[Mattk1983]

Generally, yes.

If the article you're talking about is not brilliant quality then the answer is going to almost always be yes... as it stands next to no chance of getting backlinks on its own merit on your own siote. So you might as well put it on someone elses site and gets a single guaranteed backlink.

...but possibly save your article writing masterpiece for your own sites content then

 

[open sesame]

Dude, if you end up writing something that when you sit back and read it you think wow this is really really good, then put it on your own site, reason being is if you think its sweet others will as well and naturally link to it.

 

[Chunkford]

...but possibly save your article writing masterpiece for your own sites content then

Defo, you want the merit it rightfully deserves.
But creating such master pieces is a difficult task to achieve which is why it's easier at times to create sub pair content to litter the internet with