Seo consulting service for just one site ?
-
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.
-
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.
-
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!
-
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!
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Entities and SEO
How do you find the correct words (entities) to explain an entity ? The words (entities) that go together within a sentence seem to be based on the specific corpus (the keyword you want to rank ) and when they are million of results it seems impossible to find what word / entity is going to explain the entity / concept I want to explain. It seems that I got a better chance at the lottery 🙂 a
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics
Do you have any advice or software that could parse and find the words that co-occure the most often out of millions of results !! Thank you,0 -
Indexed Pages Different when I perform a "site:Google.com" site search - why?
My client has an ecommerce website with approx. 300,000 URLs (a lot of these are parameters blocked by the spiders thru meta robots tag). There are 9,000 "true" URLs being submitted to Google Search Console, Google says they are indexing 8,000 of them. Here's the weird part - When I do a "site:website" function search in Google, it says Google is indexing 2.2 million pages on the URL, but I am unable to view past page 14 of the SERPs. It just stops showing results and I don't even get a "the next results are duplicate results" message." What is happening? Why does Google say they are indexing 2.2 million URLs, but then won't show me more than 140 pages they are indexing? Thank you so much for your help, I tried looking for the answer and I know this is the best place to ask!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | accpar0 -
Google cache is showing my UK homepage site instead of the US homepage and ranking the UK site in US
Hi There, When I check the cache of the US website (www.us.allsaints.com) Google returns the UK website. This is also reflected in the US Google Search Results when the UK site ranks for our brand name instead of the US site. The homepage has hreflang tags only on the homepage and the domains have been pointed correctly to the right territories via Google Webmaster Console.This has happened before in 26th July 2015 and was wondering if any had any idea why this is happening or if any one has experienced the same issueFDGjldR
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | adzhass0 -
International Domains for SEO
My company is international and we have websites for each country with Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLD). I am in the US and I am seeing that other countries such as Costa Rica and Germany are ranking above us in search results. I thought Google automatically geo-targeted users by default and therefore I should only get .com or US results. Any idea why other countries would rank above our site?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | fastlaneus0 -
New site. How important is traffic for a new site? And what about domain age?
Hi guys. I've been building a new site because i've seen a real SEO opportunity out there. I'm a mixing professional by trade and so I wanted to take advantage of SEO to help gain more work. Here's the site: www.signalchainstudios.co.uk I'm curious about domain age. This site fairly well optimised for my keywords, and my site got pretty good content on it (i think so anyway). But it's no where to be seen on the SERP's (link at all). Is this just a domain age issue? I'd have though it might be in the top 50 because my site's services are not hard to rank for at all! Also what about traffic? Does Google want to see an 'active' site before it considers 'promoting' it up the ranks? Or are back links and good content the main factor in the equation? Thanks in advance. I love this community to bits 🙂 Isaac.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | isaac6631 -
International SEO
Hi all, The company that I work for is planning to target some french (and some other foreign) keywords. The thing is, in our industry, you can't just hire someone to translate the content/pages. The pages have to be translated by an accredited translator. Here's the thing, it costs a LOT of money just to translate a few thousand words. So, the CEO decided to translate a few of our 'core' pages and SEO them to see if it brings results. My questions are, would it be possible from a technical point of view to simply translate a few pages? Would that cause a problem for the search engine crawlers? Would those pages be 'seen' as duplicates? Thanks in advance guys!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | EdwardDennis0 -
One Business-Multiple Services
Hello Everyone, I was looking for some strategies for doing SEO on a site that offers multiple services. Here is the example: There is one company with ONE physical address. They perform the following services: Pest Control Mold Remediation Home Inspections Waterproofing They also handle these services in several surronding cities. They want to maintain one website for branding purposes. Obviously I will create individual pages on their site for each service but was wondering how diffiuclut it will be to rank one website for these various services. Thank you!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | wparlaman0 -
Has my site been penalized?
Our site was listed on the first page for the phrase Active SEO on Google.co.uk. We suddenly find ourselves on page 4 overnight and we're not sure what's going on. We have not undertaken an Black hat techniques however the site is fairly new. Anyone have any ideas as to what is going on?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | MassivePrime0