Seo help

[NIjobsearch]

Hi all.

I have a new website and I created my business 2 years ago as a side project. Would any seo experts be interested in helping my business grow as a side project?

I can’t pay a fee at this stage but willing to share any business/profit that comes in from now on. The more traffic and sales the more I can pay.

I know it’s not ideal but would any seo expert be interested?

 

[DoolallyTap]

Are you prepared to offer this person a share of the business for their contribution? Do you have a Google merchant account and Google adwords? You will have the first year accounts and second year management accounts which show the trading history and current situation. Send a PM perhaps I can help.

 

[fisicx]

@NIjobsearch - to be honest you will struggle with any sort of SEO until you have a corpus of vacancies and applicants. Right now there is almost nothing for Google to index. This means you need to spend cash on marketing to attract recruiters and then applicants. Profit isn't going to happen for a very long time if ever.

Sorry to be so negative but you have set up a business that can't be done on a shoestring.

 

[Paul Carmen]

Are you prepared to offer this person a share of the business for their contribution? Do you have a Google merchant account and Google adwords? You will have the first year accounts and second year management accounts which show the trading history and current situation. Send a PM perhaps I can help.

Why would he have a Google merchant account, that's for product inventory, it's clearly a job site not ecommerce. Plus, he's asking for SEO knowledge, not PPC, I suspect because they have no marketing budget.

Sorry to be so negative but you have set up a business that can't be done on a shoestring.

As @fisicx says, the only way it's likely to attract jobs posters is if you have a budget to do this work.

Even if you only focus on SEO/organic rankings, It will require a decent budget to build PR relationships, backlinks and get visibility on relevant sites. Technical SEO and local link building isn't going to be enough to rank in such a competitive industry.

The only way it's likely to attract anyone, is if you have a robust business/marketing plan, with a budget to do the work, and share this plan. Plus, you'll likely need to give away a large slice of the business, as the SEO expert will be doing the bulk of the money making work.

 

[johnmclean]

Blogging about your products / sector is a good start. Make the pages useful to the audience.

 

[fisicx]

Blogging about your products / sector is a good start. Make the pages useful to the audience.

It’s a job portal. Blogging won’t help.

 

[johnmclean]

It’s a job portal. Blogging won’t help.

Not my sector but looks like Indeed is employing this strategy:

uk.indeed.com/career-advice/browse-articles

 

[fisicx]

Not my sector but looks like Indeed is employing this strategy:

uk.indeed.com/career-advice/browse-articles

Indeed has a huge reach, a ginormous database of jobs, thousands of members and a chunky marketing budget.

The job portal @NIjobsearch is promoting has none of these. Blogging will make zero difference. Anything they post will be swamped by the thousands of existing blogs all churning out masses of content - these days mostly AI generated.

Blogging for SEO stopped being a useful technique some years back.

 

[ctrlbrk]

Blogging for SEO stopped being a useful technique some years back.

Isn't that what UKBF is doing now with biz articles, and didn't Ozzy say it was working well.

 

[fisicx]

Isn't that what UKBF is doing now with biz articles, and didn't Ozzy say it was working well.

Sort of. they are not written as a set of blog posts, they are a set of business resources. There is a difference. Plus the fact that UKBF is already well established and carries a lot of authority with Google.

Consider also that the articles (or blog posts) can rank well but not attract traffic or generate leads.

I’m trying to find the article Google wrote a while back advising against blogging for SEO. The general advice was: don’t. Blog because it adds value not because you want improve ranking.