I'm trying to get some work done on SEO on www.aboutmyplanet.com how much do people charge? I've done the basics but I don't have the time to get deep into SEO... any suggestions would be great
I highly recommend learning SEO your self, as it's hard to judge what rates are good as the quailty of SEO experts really do differ. The best way to go is to try and get an SEO partner who would be willing to work on the site on a shared rev deal. Here are some SEO tips that might help you! Here are my top 50 SEO tips and notes based on previous experience: The Top 3 tips I can give are: 1) Make your site/pages easy for Search Engines to find and process 2) Research keywords that customers will use to find your site, and incorporate them within your site. 3) High Quality In Bound Links. Links from pages with a good page rank value, have relevant content to your site, have your keywords within the link and are on the home page of the site is: The ultimate SEO tool any webmaster can have. The following tips are just ways to achieve the above 3 goals. Domain Names 4) Include your primary keyword within the Domain name. 5) Do not separate the keyword and other words within your domain name using a -, for example: cheap-hotels-london.com 6) Old domain names carry more weight than new ones. 7) Try and buy a old domain name if possible. Search for your keyword and “Under construction†and email the webmaster, you may be able to buy the domain name if the owner has no plans. Circumstances change. 8) Never change your domain name if your site is listed within the search engines 9) Use a .co.uk domain name if your business is targeted for the UK market, otherwise use .com Sites Pages 10) Use quality content, the better the content, the better the site is for your visitors and the Search Engines. 11) Always use HTML if possible. 12) Keep your URL’s simple: Search Engines do not like long domain names that include characters such as: ?=soeker&new? 13) Store Session ID’s in cookies rather than URL’s 14) Use a flat directory structure – Max ¾ sub folders 15) Use a Site Map 16) If your site has more than 100 pages, use separate site maps 17) Use a robot.txt file 18) Avoid using Frames at all cost 19) Keep Flash to a minimum 20) Avoid Java script if possible Keywords 21) There are many tools for finding relevant keywords, but only one is the industry leader – www.wordtracker.com 22) Be specific with your keywords 23) Put your shelf in your customers shoes when researching keywords 24) Look at the keywords from your web site stats 25) Check the keywords your competition are using 26) Cover all keyword variations 27) Look into miss-spellings 28) Consider merged and hyphenated keywords 29) Be descriptive with your keywords Keyword placement 30) Title Tags 31) Header Tags 32) Body Text 33) Link Anchor text 34) Meta Tags 35) Only use a small number of keywords per page 36) ALT Tags Link building 37) Make sure your keywords are in the anchor text of all links 38) Links from pages with High Page rank carry more weight 39) Engage in Reciprocal links, but not too many! 40) Make sure links, either reciprocal or one way, are from pages with similar content as your site 41) To find link building partners, search for your keyword along with +add link, +submit link, +add site, submit URL and so on. 42) Use Direct marketing such as emails to request for a link 43) When writing to other webmasters, include a reason why it will benefit them or there users if they link to you 44) Offer other sites free content, or a review in exchange for a link 45) Submit your site to directories 46) Use article submission to obtain links 47) Avoid Link farms or anything similar Other Tips 48) Analyse your competition – What are they doing that is making there site rank well? 49) Always put your user first for example: Make sure your site is easy to navigate 50) Use a Blog I have a travel blog I'm willing to exchnage links with? www.absorbingtheworld.co.uk/blog
Excellent tips , But as you said you donot have time for SEO by youself .. i think it will cost you thousands of dollars for SEO . There are lot of claims " be #1 in $$ " but i donot trust on them . I believe SEO require huge hard work (lot of links and lot of articles ) and personally i will charge like $10000 or so for SEO and will take about 6 months ( because thats what i can easily make from my site by working six months on it ) ...
Agree to all posts here, I'm learning SEO and have been for the past year, it takes lot's of time to do it right and ethically. Currently I employ 4 different SEO companies to do SEO work on my 4 important sites, each differs in how they do things, all are OK, 1 is amazing there based in Canada, the other 3 are Indian based (cheapest, but as i have learned you buy cheap you buy twice!) - these are doing OK tho ... no cause for concern Currently i pay around $2,000 per month for these to operate on my sites, Canada company has the raw deal as the keyword targeting is 82% difficult!! - They charge more but quality work as my serps is pos 22, not bad out of "Results 21 - 30 of about 46,100,000" The basics are - get quality backlinks & make sure you keyword target your content sensibly ...
Hey i saw in your post that you currently pay 2000 a month to keep your keyword in the 21 to 30 serp in google. I may know an seo that can do this a bit cheaper by himself. Generally your right about indian seo's but i found an idian seo that i have know for 3 years and has a very good quality portfolio. Also what is teh keyword your targetting?