Time consumption is correct. The best ways to get the quickest traffic I would say is social bookmarking and blogging on high traffic forums and blogs with your signature. An SEO consultant is sometimes good but if not careful, they can damage you also. Try creating articles on your niche and publishing on high traffic sites such as ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com
I do SEO! I have hundreds, no make that thousands of SEO related page 1 SERPS and a darn fine amount of number 1 SERPS. Fayder, you should look at a SEO to hire as a salesperson who takes a 10 to 20 % commission is the simplest way to look at things. A SEO is like a salesperson who gets you/your website knocking on Windows (Computer screens) for search terms rather like the way a salesperson knocks on doors. You pay an offline salesperson a commission and perhaps a wage, you should look at SEO the same way. The big difference is a good SEO is like a slaesperson who can sensed when someone is in thew house and can see beyond the outer facade and know when a sale can be made.
In order to optimize your website, you should always work on both the side, i mean to say that Do quality link building and update your website, so due to that search engines will crawl again & again and every time, search engine will get something new from your website that's time when you will have result.
Thank you for all of this information, I'm a little overwhelmed if I'm honest and feel like I have a thousand questions to ask. I've been reading about people who have an off-site SEO expert who regularly update the site, is this a wise idea to start off this way as I would imagine it'd be beneficial to meet the person before giving them full access to do as they wish with my website?
The thing with that is, the best SEO for the job might be miles away or a completely different Country Fayder. You need to beware of many SEO's especially the cheaper ones, as there are a lot of Cowboys calling themselves search engine optimizers (optimisers UK English). If you are not comfortable with giving access you could in theory just copy and paste what the SEO tells you to, but it would imho make it all quite complicated.
Thanks, that does make sense. Everybody seems to be offering SEO services so it'll take a long time to weed through them all. I don't really have any friends that run businesses so will have to rely on my brain to make a good decision.
If you want any good solid SEO advice (For Free) PM me and I will give you a URL where I give free advice just for doing me the favour of making posts. The other SEO in the UK I find most consistently coming up for SEO related search terms I target is Shaun Anderson of www.hobo-web.co.uk - his blog is well worth a browse through. You will pick some great tips and advice there to. I see Shaun as the main man to beat when it comes to UK SEO's
Thank you for everybody's kind offers, I will be sure to be in touch once I have redesigned by plans and understand myself fully exactly what needs to be done. Has everybody learnt about the workings of SEO by themselves online or are there courses available to teach such a subject?