Search engine marketing firms

Search engine marketing firms
by Chris Tremblay
If you're a webmaster, maybe you'd love to find a search engine marketing firm that'll take care of your website and get you listed #1 for a popular keyword, for a mediocre fee.
Life isn't always that easy. Handing your search engine optimization to a firm won't get you ranked #1 for a particular keyword overnight. Like most things in life, getting a high rank requires work and patience.
If you get a search engine marketing firm to work on your website, you will save time and most probably see good results. However, results always take time before they come and you might have to wait 6 months for a visible amount of traffic to arrive at your website thanks to a search engine marketing firm you hired. Click Here….
With a search engine marketing firm however comes a steep price - you could be paying $5 000 for work to be done on your website. This is a big price, and most of us mediocre webmasters don't have that kind of cash to spill into a website.
Also, because search engine marketing firms don't give you guarantees, it's not always certain you'll get the ranking you want. If you find a firm that gives you a guarantee, I suggest you stay away from them. They will either get you a #1 ranking for a term that nobody searches for or they'll simply run away with your money.
Currently, your website is probably ranked #1 for a certain key phrase and you probably don't even know about it. If you take the title of the site and search for it in Google, you'll probably be ranked #1. However, no one searches for that key phrase and therefore you haven't advanced much. Some search engine marketing firms will simply find a key phrase that you rank #1 in and say they've done their work.
Make sure you choose a good search engine marketing firm if you want to work with one, and if you have the investment required. Look for a firm that is very professional and that has a good reputation.
For those who don't have the money to hire a search engine marketing firm, I suggest you do your SEO by yourself with the help of SEO software.
Today, there are many SEO software application that can automate almost all the tasks you need to be doing. Imagine all the time you'd be saving if you had an application that would:
-Analyse your competition -Get Link partners -Tell you which link partners hurt your website -Make sure your link partners are linking back to you -Tell you which pages of your site are indexed, what rank, and for what term, constantly
And these are just the tip of the iceberg to what SEO software can do today. If you're looking to do some SEO on your website, you absolutely need an SEO software.
I suggest SEO Elite to all my clients. It is one of the most powerful SEO software out there.

Google Wants to Stop Backlink Selling - Another Myth from Big G?

Google Wants to Stop Backlink Selling - Another Myth from Big G?
by Nick Bokhonok
Google reports to initiate the work over the changes in its algorithm to make sure that backlink selling (for SEO purposes) fades away.
I am not going to dispute about the morality of purchasing backlinks for SEO purposes in this article, because this is a subject for another very long discussion.
But let's try to answer a simple question...
Can Google Invent Any Algo to Stop Backlink Selling?
Right now Google offers to report sites that are selling backlinks, and they will use this info to find out some algo to fight it.
Google is not saying how exactly they will fight backlink selling, but I think the wisest idea would be to simply not count backlinks (in terms of rank calculation) if the site is reported for heavy backlink selling. This should make the purchase of links not interesting for webmasters and break the whole trend of buying links for the sake of SEO.
BUT...
How can Google tell good links (real links) from bad links (paid links made for the sake of SEO)?
I personally know many super reputable webmasters' forums that sell backlinks. (!) Intermingled with real backlinks (!). That makes impossible to invent some algo that will tell good links from the bad links. Because - when done wisely - all backlinks look super natural.
So, if it's impossible to invent this algo, this means sites that sell backlinks in a wise way are out of threat. And Google will be catching only stupid link farms and greedy average sites that create piles of backlinks. Click Here….
It looks like Google most probably will make a big public punishment for some minors - and that's it. Big sites will be still selling the backlinks. And webmasters will be still buying the backlinks.
It's highly possible that Google creates the buzz trying to threat naive webmasters and scare them away from buying links.