Seo consulting service for just one site ?
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I make a living off my site, so everytime I have to make a critical decision on SEO, I have a lot of fear that I could make things worse and lose everything.
I can find solutions here and google, but there always a lot of different opinions, so I was thinking in hiring someone to pick his brain and do what he/she thinks its best in my case.
What do you guys think about this ? Do you have someone to recommend ? That you see his work with good results ?
I have a wordpress blog (micro businnes), so my budget is not big.
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there always a lot of different opinions
Yes, indeed. There will always be lots of opinions.
If you hire a person to review what you do then you will get ONE opinion. In my opinion, a lot of the opinions posted online either in articles or in forums are flawed (including a lot of what I post). Nobody knows everything and a lot of people sell SEO services who should not be selling SEO services. Be careful.
My method is to depend mainly on myself, then when I am going to do something really important, I get a paid opinion. I don't use forums as a substitute for opinions on things that are more than a simple one-topic question/answer. People who are posting in forums generally are not going to spend hours doing a deep review your site and making complex decisions. You will not get good advice on a topic that requires a deep and detailed knowledge of your website and your business. People posting in a forum generally don't have that kind of extra time and we should not expect that type of service in a forum. I also believe that this type of information should remain private and not be discussed in the open in a forum.
How to find someone? My suggestion is to look at a Q&A forum like Moz daily and read lots of the questions. After doing that for a several months you will learn a lot. You will also see the range of people who give answers. Some might not seem like a person you would want giving you advice, others might be much more appealing because of their ability to explain clearly, their generosity and how you perceive their knowledge of what they are talking about.
Every person who has given me advice or done SEO or technical work for my website me is a person who I have met in an SEO forum. I go to different people for different types of advice and I often get two opinions on important projects. I am not telling you this because I am looking for work. I never give private consultations or do SEO work for anyone. I also never recommend people to work on the websites of others. These are things that you should decide for yourself.
Get educated about SEO. Learn who gives good advice.
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Great answer! Specialy the competitors taking action before me. SO TRUE.
Do you have someone to recommend ? That work with little projects as one wordpress site for example.
Thank you!
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Hey Glinski!
No matter where you go or who you decide to work with there will and should always be a difference of opinion. Simply because SEO is not a one size fits all type of service. It is a moving target and there are always several ways to skin the cat. My best advice is for you to interview people/agencies and go with what your gut tells you. There are a lot of people in this business that do it to for the sake of making money but there are also a lot of people that do it because they are passionate about it. After you interview a few you should be able to sort through and find the best fit for YOU.
Communication is critical. Draft a strategy, implement it, make changes, measure data, tweak things again, measure data... rinse and repeat. And most important... question everything. But don't be scared to make changes and bust outside the box every once in a while. If you don't, your competitors will and you will ultimately lose the battle.
Fight the good fight. Cheers!
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