Who optimized your website? Did you optimize your website or hire a SEO Expert? If you optimized your own website: - What steps did you take to insure the website was optimized properly? - How much time did you spend working on search engine optimization for the website? - What type of results did you experience from search engines once you launched the website? If you hired a SEO Expert: - How was the experience? - How did you find the person you hired? - Did you get the results that you expected? - Was it worth the money that you spent? - Would you ever consider hiring another SEO Expert?
Ghwe - What steps did you take to insure the website was optimized properly? Onpage (competitor analysis, keyword analysis, create meta tags, proper content, Html validation, Heading Tags, Image optimization, proper anchor text, site map creation etc ) find backlinks, create quality backlinks ( directory submission-theme, article submission, press release, social bookmarking, social networking, forum posting, blog commenting etc) - How much time did you spend working on search engine optimization for the website? 2 hrs per day - What type of results did you experience from search engines once you launched the website? got result after 2 months
- What steps did you take to insure the website was optimized properly? Original content, proper titles, relevant tags, Keyword analysis, Image optimization, create a site map, made sure of my robot.txt file, worked hard on backlinks, - How much time did you spend working on search engine optimization for the website? 2-3 hours every day - What type of results did you experience from search engines once you launched the website? my hard worked showed after 1 month, my traffic went 300% - 400% more SEO is not very hard, it's not worth hiring an SEO expert you can learn it in a few days
I've hired a couple of SEO firms in the past. I wouldn't call them experts though. All they do is come on forums like this and visit a few text link broker sites and buy links for you. That and post useless forum links and blog comments. You give them $500, they spend $200 on links and keep the other $300. Some of the links are rubbish too. IMO, 95% of SEO companies don't know what they're doing. The other 5% do and this is reflected in the price they charge for their services. I think it's rather unlikely I'd hire another SEO company again, although there are some good ones out there.
Sorry to hear you had such a bad experience. I would have to say you were dealing with "SEO's" and not "Internet Business Consultants" who were Marketing Professionals. Such a thing would never happen with a professional group who followed strict protocol and knew the appropriate processes to help a client's business grow online and increase their exposure to relevant visitors. A true professional would take time to ascertain your marketing objectives, plan and execute an effective strategy.
And the lack of time to acquire knowledge =) SEO is very time-consuming and for most business owners, it is far more worth-while using the time for your money-generating activities.