With SEO Or Any Service You Get What You Pay For!
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This blog covers local SEO which is dominated by Google, Google Places and the need for citations. The blog also covers just about any thing related to Google search results and related topics. I hope that you might glean some useful resources while you are here.
With SEO Or Any Service You Get What You Pay For!
We have previously written in the past we use Craigslist locally a lot to market our services. We have very little competition locally. However, we see lots of ads placed from across the country. Most often these folks don’t have an SEO website to link to in their ads nor do they provide a phone number to call.
They usually ask you to email them your domain name and they’ll get back to you. We from time to time contact them to see if they actually know anything about SEO. What we usually discover is they got lucky with a keyword phrase in a Title Tag and have landed on the first page of results.
We ran into a gentleman from the 206 area code that had done this using “Affordable Nike Drivers.” He landed in the #1 position, but that was it. That was the extent of his SEO experience and knowledge. But that didn’t stop him from offering his SEO services for $400.00. He pointed to his #1 position as proof of his skills. To the unknowing small business owner this could be impressive.
This is another classic example of you get what you pay for. This also shows the downside of using Craigslist to seek professional services. Just about everyone using Craigslist is looking for a bargain ourselves included. So it is more difficult to acquire leads from potential clients who are willing to pay for results. Craigslist for us is more about branding for us then lead generation and sales.
We often find when attending networking events that we encounter someone who has seen us on Craigslist. This was a much more valuable tool for link building before they implemented their “No Follow Policy.”
Update 05/18/2010: I have been proving that ranking well is not difficult or at least in most local or niche markets. I have recently written several posts here that targeted specific communities for our SEO Services. I have seen some of these posts go to the number one position immediately and stay there.
However, I am working on a project that is more competitive and it required lots of links. Even though the site had been around for five years it didn’t have any backlinks at all. It began it rank well for some long tail keywords almost right away. However, it has taken three months to rank on the first page of Google for its primary keyword phrase. Had I spent more time on this project it likely could have occurred much more quickly.
SEO is easy if you are highly motivated, which I am.
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wow i never knew that you can use craigslists for seo purpose very interesting but on craigslists they are filled with spam and known scams
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it is wonderful to use the craigslist but i am also agreed with almir they are filled with scams and spams can u over come that.
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