I hired a freelancer from Getafreelancer to SEO my ecommerce site, which is in very competitive niche of vitamins and nutrition. As per him he can achieve 2k to 5k uv's in 3 months. Which sounds exaggerated to me... what do you guys think in you opinion is it generally possible. I know you will ask this, here is the strategy we are employing. 1. Do onpage SEO including keyword analysis, meta tags etc, also try to make site W3c complaint. And then submit to search engine. 2. Once submitted we will have someone write 2 articles a day. So around 170 plus articles. 3. And get around 70 pr2 + links. What do you guys think with this is it possible, and what do you guys think about the strategy.
Sounds like this guy maybe shooting for the moon. Where is he pulling those numbers from? Break down. Its a start. Not needed. If he suggested this then back off right away. Could help there again could be a waste of time. I dont do this myself so I cant 100% be sure on this. Why 70 and why PR2? This means nothing at all and probably will have very little weight on what you want to achieve. Again, if he suggested this then he's not what you need. Links really need to be relevant to your niche site. 10 relevant links may end up being better than 70 PR2 irrelevant links. what's your current positions?
cormac is correct, if he suggests submitting to search engines there's alarm bells ringing right there. The best advice is to stay away from these Freelancer sites for SEO completely, why do you think they are on there bidding it out for work? Because they either don't have a website, or it ranks nowhere and gets no traffic or customers. The amount of completely ruined websites i have fixed from Getafreelancer type places is staggering.
There's not a thing in your hired SEO's list that you couldn't do yourself ... and there are things on the list, as noted by posters above, that do not need to be done (such as the useless practice of submitting to search engines). If your expectation of 5,000 unique visitors daily to an ecommerce site is realistic and achievable, I think that merits your own personal SEO attention.
If google is late in indexing your site it can take a lot more ... But i think geting a website in 3 months to a traffic of 2-5k ppl is doable .... but for this u need uber PR and that is very hard cuz evryone wants to be on the first page. P.S. Whou mutch are you paying the guy who is writing the 170 articles ? ) because no one is going to take 150$ to write a small book if you know what i mean
Thank you guys, well yeah i am skeptical myself. I would say 5000 uv's a month is more so likely after 3 months, it is a new site, can you explain why submitting to search engine is not necessary? So far he will be doing on page SEO which will include fixing meta tags, title tags, h1, h3 headings, fixing robots.txt. Keyword analysis and stemming on product pages and making the site W3c compliant.
Eseller, submitting to search engines is unnecessary. If a new website or a new page is linked to from existing, indexed pages, when those pages are crawled by the search engines, they will follow the link to your new website or web page. Some Suggestions: • Link to your site from your DP signature. • Go to squidoo.com and create a Squidoo lens and link to your website from that. I just created a free Squidoo page a week or so ago. I immediately picked up about 50 valuable "deep links" which are showing in Google Webmaster Tools, and I have begun to receive a surprising amount of referral traffic from Squidoo. • If you have other websites, put a link to your new site on the existing site. Whenever I create a new page, I put a link to it on my PR5 home page, and the new page is picked up pretty quickly by the search engines. Then after a while, I remove that link from my home page. • If you do things like the above, you need not waste your time submitting new pages/websites to search engines. In fact, (I'm not sure why) but some SEO veterans believe that submitting to search engines can actually be counterproductive.
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