Posts Tagged ‘seo expert’
100 Best SEO Blog Posts
Thursday, November 19, 2009 11:16 2 CommentsI just realised I actually published 99 Posts on the SEO Consultant blog. So this is the 100th blog post. I thought I should do something special here, like an ‘Anniversary’ or something similar. 100 blog posts is a milestone for a blog. Not the first and certainly not the last milestone. So this blog post with the really fancy title: 100 Best SEO Blog Posts, isn’t really a list of the best SEO related blog posts. It is the 100 SEO blog posts that I wrote and published. Good or bad – you can judge yourself!
So here is the list of the 100 Best Blog Posts:
Are the Right People on Your Marketing Team?
Internet Marketing Strategy: Content
Senior Manager of Emerging Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing – How to start?
Facebook has 200 million active users
Twitter and European Elections in Dublin South
Search Engine Optimization spend is on the rise
Irish Internet Association Congress 2009
Social Networks will waste your time – if not used properly!
You Oughta Know Inbound Marketing
Recession is bad for Internet Traffic
Unique Web Content equals High Ranking in Google
Recession in the Irish PPC Market
Link Building is like Sailing!
Understanding your web site visitors
Search Engine Optimization is like Fishing
Search Engine Optimization is like….
Google Analytics Custom Reporting
Search Phrase in the Domain Name
Internet Advertising Revenue 2008
Search Engine Marketing in Ireland
Search Engine Optimization Cost
Doodle 4 Google by Google Ireland
Ireland Search Engine Marketing Report 2008
How Does SEO Fall Into Your Company
BLOG = Better Listings On Google
To Outsource SEO or not to Outsource SEO?
Outsourcing your web site SEO Service?
Driving traffic with inbound links
Alan Shortall & SEO Consultant
SEO Consultant first in Google Chrome
Google Chrome Browser is here!
Google doesn’t like Ciul as a Search Engine!
Blogging is a way of building the inbound links
Invert Pyramid – Writing for the Web
KeywordSpy – The Ultimate Competitor Intelligence Tool
Google PageRank (PR) Update – SEO Consultant down to PR 4
SEO Consultant is 4 months old today!
SEO: To Outsource or Not to Outsource?
Google Webmaster Tools – Visual Ranking Reporting
Irish Google speaks American English
Free SEO Tools: Stompernet Site Seer
SEO Budget? How much does it all cost?
Google Webmaster Tools the Judge of Google.ie Speed Test
Google Experimental Labs > Experimental Search
Dynamic MetaTags, Dynamic Title, URL Rewriting, H1, H2,… are all a MUST HAVE for any CMS today.
Google Webmaster Tools Gadgets Bug
There is no such thing as Bad Web Traffic!
Good Google Web Traffic and Bad Google Web Traffic
Google is showing different search results during weekends!
WordPress as a SEO Springboard
Search Engine Optimisation vs. Search Engine Marketing
Google: Search Engine Optimization
22 hours later – SEO Consultant in Google index!
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Reports
To Outsource SEO or not to Outsource SEO?
Monday, September 22, 2008 14:15 2 CommentsYou are as likely to choose a wrong SEO Company as to hire a wrong SEO employee. If you know about SEO you will choose the right one, if you do not, ask for help externally.
Inhouse SEO
Imagine that you manage to hire and really hire the 100% best candidate as you SEO guy. And he/she is the best in what he does, in his little niche of SEO. For this example he is the best ‘Link Ninja’. He generates the inbound links from the huge number of sites with minimal budget (you didn’t think links are free did you?).
12 months pass by, and he is up for review. What are his goals for the next 12 months that you are going to base his performance bonus? To achieve 20% more inbound links than last year? And a year after again the same?!
The salary growth is not really exceed 10 to 15% ,… so your PERFECT Link Ninja has absolutely no career path. The only possible one is to stop him generating links but managing junior team members in doing that or managing a vendor SEO company in link building. Since he is the 100% best Link Ninja, he is not going to be happy with anyone’s performance – inferior to his. This results in him not doing the job he is good at – link building, but having to manage inferior link builders. This will give him the feeling his staff is mediocre and that his employer does not invest enough in the SEO Link Building Team.
Here is the point where you lose your Link Ninja – most likely to your competitor – who will use his experience in your industry…
Outsourced SEO
The percentage of SEO contract being renewed after an educated review is really very, very small. This is the result that since a SEO is so nice little item every web design company just adds to their list of services, and can be priced as much as the development of the whole web site, it is too tempting not to offer it. Anyone can call themselves a SEO Expert, and you need to know a great deal about the SEO itself to be able to choose a good one.
So how well will the Outsourced SEO work for you? The answer is really in the question itself. The more you know about the SEO, the better SEO company will you choose. Since you have decided to outsource the SEO, it is most likely you understand you do not have the skills to do it yourself. ON the other hand you need to know SEO really well to find a really good SEO company. A bit like a Catch 22 here isn’t it?
Imagine an accountancy practice hiring a .NET developer to develop an internal application. Will they interview him themselves? And ask for the code samples so that they can analyse them? The same applies with the SEO consultants. It is pointless to choose a SEO company yourself if you know nothing about the SEO yourself. If you do, you will determine what SEO company to work with based on the sales skills of their salesman! And that is in absolutely no relation to the quality of the SEO service you will receive.
So to Outsource SEO or not to Outsource SEO?
One way or the other, get someone who knows about SEO to help you interview the job candidates or potential service provider. You will save a lot of money on the long run. You can find a SEO Consultant for hire here.
Google Webmaster Tools the Judge of Google.ie Speed Test
Saturday, May 17, 2008 17:21 No CommentsSome three months ago I wrote the post about the speed of Google – defining a test on how long does Google really take to place a new web site high (first page) for the relevant search phrases. We all know that Google will fairly quickly display a web site high in the search engine results pages (SERP) after it initially finds the page – for the search phrase that is exactly the same as the domain name of the web page. But getting listed for the other keywords is something that Google really does not rush to do quickly. Exceptions are of course pages PING’ed directly to Google, or submitted via the XML Sitemaps. But both of those tend to have a short ‘life span’ high in the SERP.
So three months after the publishing of this site SeoConsultant.ie – the Google Webmaster Console is showing its rankings in the SERP:
Note that all those results are still obtained with the ‘Pages from Ireland’ option selected for those search phrases.