Hi, i'm doing a market analysis on SEO firms in the US and i would be grateful if you could help me to find some particular information... 1. How many SEO firms are there in the US? 2. How many online stores use SEO strategies? 3. How Google Panda and Google Penguin changed the linkbuilding practices? 4. Which are the most often used SEO and social media monitoring tools? Thank you in advance, Erika
Panda and Penguin completely transformed linkbuilding. There are some growing anti google movements now because of it. Way more than ever before.
For getting answer of first two questions you can take a help of Google. where in reply to third questions, According the google panda and new penguin algorithm your website must have the below quality for getting the best ranking. - your website must have backlinks from highpage rank websites. - No spam activities in off page activities for your website, means don't use the 0 page rank or nofollow website for off page activities. - Your website must have the onpage activities as per standard of penguin algorithm. - You must not to do spam activities for your website. And at last the answer of your 4th question is Only manually SEO is best activities for best result.
oh, and question #5 is: how much is usually a sponsored post (published on websites with a domain popularity of about 100) paid?
as i said, finding precise data by google isn't that easy... therefore i'm posting my questions here :/