Hi, my name is Dee Barizo. I've been doing SEO for about a year now. I worked full time as an inhouse SEO for Sea Waves from Sept 2007 to January 2008. I left my position to become a freelance search marketer. I'm now offering my services to the Digital Point Forum community. Top ROI SEO Services There are many SEO services that can be offered. I have chosen to focus on the services that give the highest ROI (return on investment). A year ago, SEOmoz published Google Search Engine Ranking Factors based on the wisdom of 37 SEO experts. Included in this document were the top ten most important factors in SEO. Here were the top five factors: 1) Title tags 2) Anchor text in backlinks 3) Domain trust, or global link popularity 4) Age of site 5) Internal linking I can't help you with number 4 But I do offer SEO services to target the four other top SEO factors. SEO Factor: Title tags Service provided: Keyword research Price: $10 per keyword Optimizing your title tags is relatively easy to do yet many webmasters do not put profitable, traffic-generating keywords in their title tags. Maybe it's because keyword research is tedious or maybe they don't know how to do keyword research. In any case, I'm here to help. I actually like doing keyword research It's my favorite part of SEO. I think that's because of my accounting background. Anyways, I charge $10 per keyword. You can send me URLs of pages and I'll find out the best keyword to target on each page. Alternatively, you can just give me the URL of your site and I'll do some research to figure out which keywords your site should be targeting. You may be thinking my price is too expensive especially when others are advertising $10 for a keyword list of 100 words. The problem with those big keyword lists is that you still have to figure out which of those words are quality keywords. To find a quality keyword, I do two things. First, I research the search volume through SEO Book's keyword suggestion tool. Keywords with no search volume are thrown away. Second, I research the competitiveness by checking the top 10 results on Google. More specifically, I do a simple test using the Google commands: allintitle, allinanchor, and allintext. SEO Factor: Anchor text in backlinks Service provided: Keyword research and content-based links Price: $10 per keyword and $40 per content-based link I already talked about my keyword research service, so I'll go over my link building service. My price is $40 per content-based link on a PR3 or more domain. Most search marketers agree that content-based links are more effective than sitewide, sidebar, or footer links. I build most of my links by contacting webmasters directly or through this forum and buying links from them. I use the title tag test and fake PR test to make sure each link actually helps your rankings. Also, I make sure each site is not associated with bad neighborhoods (aka drugs, gambling, and porn) using this SEO tool. You may think $40 is too expensive but many link building services charge monthly for their links. The links I build cost only a one-time charge. Also, my price is comparable to a reputable company like V7N and they don't guarantee your link will be placed on a PR3 or better domain. SEO Factor: Domain trust, or global link popularity Service provided: Linkbait creation and marketing Price: $100 to create linkbait and $20/hour to market it To increase your domain trust, you need links from trusted sites. And for most of these sites, you can't buy links from them. Instead, you have to earn them. That's where linkbait comes into play. Linkbait is content created with the purpose of attracting links. There are different types of linkbait - from creating a resource to using humor. Here are two great articles about different types of linkbait: The Art of Linkbaiting The Link Baiting Playbook: Hooks Revisited I mostly focus on the resource linkbait. For $100, I'll research some of the top sites in your niche and see what they're linking to. Then, I'll create a piece of content that hopefully they will find interesting and therefore, link to it. Marketing linkbait is the second step of the process. In this step, I email sites in your niche and ask them to link to the linkbait. I usually charge $25/hour to market linkbait because it's a tedious job. But since my service is new to Digital Point, I'm only charging $20/hour. There is a lot of potential with marketing linkbait. I currently work with a web development/marketing firm. They create the linkbait and they hire me to do some of the marketing. I've emailed bloggers and webmasters and I've helped them get links on these sites: about.com time-blog.com dallasnews.com (2,500 Alexa rank) two PR6 niche authority sites a PR5 blog with a 50,000 Alexa rank a PR3 blog with a 50,000 Alexa rank You need these type of links to do really well in the search engines. And even if the marketing doesn't go very well, oftentimes the webmasters I email are open to guest posts so you still have a chance to get a high quality, trusted link. SEO Factor: Internal linking Service provided: On page optimization of internal links Price: $15/hour Internal linking is basically linking your site in such a way as to give your important, high profit pages more weight while taking away link popularity from not so important pages that don't need to rank high on the search engines. For example, you usually don't want your contact and privacy pages to rank highly. You would rather funnel your link popularity to other pages like articles/blog posts that show your expertise and product pages. The total time for optimizing your internal links depends on how big your site is. Send me a private message with your site URL and I'll give you a quote. Testimonials and Referrals My past boss, Ryan Caldwell, owner of Sea Waves, was kind enough to recommend me on one of his blogs: The Best Affordable Linkbuilding Service On The Net Ryan is the manager of performancing.com, a popular blog about blogging, and he owns high profile sites like popcrunch.com and businesspundit.com. He gave me permission to give out his email address for referral purposes. If you would like to contact him about me, feel free to send me a private message. I'm working on another referral. I just sent an email to one of my other clients to ask for permission to give out their email address. My SEO Knowledge To get my an idea of my SEO and internet marketing knowledge, please check out the posts the I wrote for these three blogs: Performancing blog.smartpagerank.com Net Business Blog Also, feel free to send me a private message if you have a questions about my SEO expertise. Delivery Time Right now, I can deliver your services within one week. If I get a lot of clients, it could take 2 - 3 weeks depending on the number of clients I get. More Information Finally, if you have any questions about my services or my SEO methods, send me a private message or email me at deebarizo [att] yahoo [dott] com. I love SEO and look forward to helping out some webmasters in the Digital Point Community.
Just got a testimonial from Andy Boyd: "I've been using Dee's services for several months now and have been thoroughly impressed by his consistent high quality work. Dee is reliable, trustworthy and a very talented link building ninja!"
eniva, you do not need to use his service if you do not like it. I do like his service descriptions as well as the offerings.
$40 is too much for some people. But if you want to trade money for time and SEO expertise, my price is not too bad. Many of the links I build cost over $25. So, basically you're paying for my time and SEO knowledge to research and find those quality PR3+ links. Thanks for the positive feedback PM sent. Also, thanks for buying an SEO Report