Saturday, August 20, 2011

Finding SEO Consultants

By Takara Alexis


Each business has that one task you absolutely hate to perform. It could be because it bores you, or it may be because you aren't really sure how to do it well. When it comes to online businesses, the latter applies to search engine optimization. A great number of people have no clue how to go about SEO and are unwilling to learn. Luckily there are search engine optimization consultants that take care of the tasks, you can't complete, for you.

Leave it to a search engine SEO consultant. There are many things you just can't afford to miss the mark on. As internet marketing gets more popular and advertising rises it becomes harder for small online business to make themselves known. In this case finding SEO professionals becomes very handy.

Consider your situation. Before you start finding SEO experts, take a moment to consider your situation. What are your needs at the moment? What are your short term goals and your long term objectives? And how much can you afford to spend. On the internet, cheaper does not always mean better. Consider where you're at and where you would like to be.

There are many search engine optimization consultants out there. However, choosing the one to do business with may not be so easy. Among the many search engine SEO consultants out there sits a great amount of scams. Ensure that the company you pick is great in keyword formulation, as this is the first criteria that search engines use to determine web relevance. However, this can not be the only determinate for deciding whether or not the SEO service is legal or a scam.

Search engine optimization takes a while to come into effective. You can not expect results over night. Any company that promises you immediate results is lying to you, and such companies commonly undertake spamdexing. Spamdexing is using methods that manipulate the relevancy or importance of resources indexed by a search engine. Spamdexing can be done by stuffing a website full of keywords. When web crawlers (the programs search engines use to rank websites) read the web sites, they read a lot of the same keyword and assume that the site is content rich. Based on the web crawler findings the website is given a high rank. Keyword stuffing is considered content spam and it can get your site banned.

You also want to be aware of link spam. Link analysis is also used to rank sites. Link spam is when the web master takes advantage of the link ranking algorithms causing search engines to give the guilty website a higher ranking. There are a number of versions of link spam including, Link farms, hidden links, Sybil attack, wiki spam, spam blogs (also referred to as splogs), page hijacking, buying expired domains, and referrer log spamming.

Spamdexing is commonly done by websites that are sound in the black hat directory, therefore it is well advised to stay away from such directories.




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