Determining Your SEO Budget
December 22nd, 2011
How much money does SEO cost? Just as importantly is the question of how much SHOULD it cost? Depending on a number of factors, the answer will be very different for whoever asks it. Knowing what kind of budget to assign for your website’s SEO requires knowing what SEO is, and determining what you want [...]
Why You Need an SEO Writer
August 28th, 2011
Does it feel like you never have the time to write your own content? Do you have worries about doing something wrong? Are you confused about linking even after reading enough guides to make your spin? if so, you are far from being alone. While a vast number of entrepreneurs think that doing your own [...]
The Submitedge Scam Fighting Strategy
July 28th, 2011
With the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) being bandied about in hopes most people won’t know what it really consists of, scam artists are making bank by promising the moon. Submitedge is a reputable SEO company that has seen many clients of other less honest businesses come running to their real SEO services after being [...]
Building Your Relationship With Your SEO Firm
July 18th, 2011
When you begin a relationship with an SEO company, you need to get actual answers from them regarding how they will help improve your rank. All too often SEOs will promise the sun and moon along with top page rank, but never explain to you what their strategy is. This is not because it violates [...]
Hitting a Home Run
April 22nd, 2011
SEO is a lot like baseball. There are 25 guys on the big team and another hundred or more in the minors from around the world chipping away and doing their part to be a long term player on a winning team. If everything goes right, all those players work together to achieve the ultimate [...]
Beware the Rogue SEO
May 5th, 2010
Google has some terrific insights into how to avoid being taken advantage of by a scammy, spammy, black hat SEO firm. Many SEOs are actually well educated, rained individuals that keep up with the latest tweaks to algorithms used by search engines and provide honest, trustworthy services that achieve consistent results. Beware, however, SEO ‘gurus’ [...]
Outsourcing SEO
April 13th, 2010
Does your SEO firm do it for you? Here’s what you need to ask before outsourcing. Know your needs, and know the reality. SEO firms are all over the place, promising the moon if you just hire them. Finding the right outside SEO firm is imperative to getting reliable results. Don’t go with some ‘guru’ [...]
Keeping up with SEO Trends
March 18th, 2010
The race to be the best in SEO is brutal. Some people build brochure websites. Others endeavor to be a source of information,and peddle their services or product alongside. Still others depend on affiliates, and finally you have the huge shopping carts online. No mater how simplistic or complex your site is, you will need [...]
Link Building the Google Way
March 9th, 2010
Hiring an SEO firm to generate backlinks can help you, but only if they follow the rules and don’t get you tangled up by using black hat tactics. To buy backlinks is against Google’s Webmaster guidelines, paid links are taboo: Buying or selling links that pass PageRank can dilute the quality of search results. If [...]
Recognizing SEO Talent
October 24th, 2009
We talked about how to recognize the warning flags of an incompetent or incapable SEO. Now let’s investigate the way to tell a good SEO when you meet one. A good SEO consultant or firm will: 1. Provide a consultation at which they evaluate your website and explain what they feel the weak areas are, [...]













