SEO Companies - Your Experiences

My gripe is SEO companies who use broad search results to impress the naive buyer, and worse still, propose or agree on keywords that do not have a decent amount of searches per day (except where it's niche and/or long tail, and that this is explained to the client beforehand).

Obviosuly if after that they still insist on paying you to get them to Google page 1 for 'dancing green elephants in walthamstow' then you've done your best. However I have yet to see anyone part with their money for a rubbish keyword after it has been explained to them.

12 month ties in's are definitely my pet moan. Especially something like a link building campaign, where you know in 6 months time you will have the office junior working through web directory freebie lists.

From the firms I've dealt with in the past, communication was always a problem. The lack of contact between "account manager" and the backroom techie. Depending on the account manager depended on the amount of drivel you were fed.

Never really seen price as an issue, as you have to decide the potential value any SEO work will have on your site, and as long as your not tied in, if it's not viable, then walk away.

It would be nice to start a relationship with a technically savvy account manager, agree on expectations, including when to walk away, agree a fee and then have consistent monthly reports. With a 30 day notice period, you are then in control, and as long as the results are going the right direction, then you will happily carry on paying.

Doesn't sound too much to ask, and each time I think I've found someone who does that, they let me down

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Sorry guys, but am I missing something here? You are a SEO company asking HOW to do SEO?

They are asking for EXPERIENCES people have had with other SEO companies, I would imagine to offer a better service, and find what USP's would work for them.

Hope this helps

Mmm - OK. Just seems a little strange, I thought I was misunderstanding the point.

You have to understand SEO - and then you may realise!
95% sure way to get a higher ranking is to have more inbound links to your own website using your chosen keyword. As you can see, the original poster has infact , by starting this article/page, created a page about SEO on another company website, not his own - that links to his website using the keyword "" in his signature.

The more inbound links you have increases the "importance" of your site. If a lot of people link to it - it must be important right?
So your ranking increases....

But what's the point of targetting a keyword as rightly mentioned abut green elephants if no one actually searches for it.

BUT and this is a BIG but....
What's the point in targetting SEO or Cheap SEO
(see i'm making this page more relevant to SEO now (he'll love me for this)
and of course - i'm wating my time doing the hard work for him... grr


...anyway - i digress - the BUT
so yes whats the point.
The point is - there isnt a point.
Picture this.

You're a sole trader and you want to set up your own bank.
Ridiculous right.
Too much competition and no one would take you seriously.
Searching UK Bank on google brings you a lot of results....
So why would you try to compete against the best.
It's simply a TOTAL waste of time.
and remember, just as you increase your pagerank by doing SEO, the top #1 position is probably moving the goalposts by equally STILL doing SEO.


So my point is...
SEO is POINTLESS
UNLESS
You research your keywords first.

Based on the following fake information - what keyword would you try to target to get you to the top of listings...

Bank - 1'000'000'000 websites / 400'000 daily searches
UK Bank - 300'000 / 300'000 daily searches
Best UK Bank - 216'000 / 400'000 searches
Free UK Banking - 50'000 / 60'000 searches


Targetting bank - you have to beat 1 billion other websites to get to the top!
but what about the rest?
What word would be more achievable and profitable?


SO point 1.- the fact you dont understand why this comment was originally posted - it's all to do with SEO and link building. (unless he's a saint)

point 2 - vague keywords are the best. Some are niche words meaning low competition but high searches. Dont fight above your weight!

point 3 - Reasearch - For roughly

Even more confused now itsupportlondon.

(Let me check that punch again. My partner swore it was non-alcoholic!)

'laptop backup' has very low competion. It's what I would consider a 'walk in the park' (easy) keyword to rank on Google page 1 for however, I wouldn't chase a keyword that has less than 10 searches a day (as an exact phrase) like this one, except where my only product was a backup product such as Carbonite, in which case, I would be chasing all the back-up related keywords since there won't be too many to choose from.

Unfortunately now that new layout of Google's local listings take up most of page one, your position for 'it support london' is now top of page 2.

@ Drian, the original post was asking about experiences on having used an seo company, and not how SEO works.