Comments on: Is there any small business out there that can recommend a SEO company that is cost effective?

By: ArtieM

ArtieM — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:38:54 +0000

I strongly recommend buying Jill Whalen’s “Nitty Gritty of Writing for the Search Engines.” It’s about $50 but worth every cent. Also, check out http://www.searchengineland.com and http://www.searchenginenews.com for a lot of free and paid information. If it’s SEM you’re needing, at the very least, find someone who’s passed the Yahoo and Google exams. There are no guarantees when hiring an SEO that they’ll get you to the top so be careful with how much you spend on them.

By: inblosam

inblosam — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:22:58 +0000

If you have some time and interest in controlling your SEO, you can do-it-yourself for way less. It’s fun to learn about it and do it for your own site in many ways. We’ve created some tools for doing do-it-yourself SEO:

http://www.soloseo.com

Otherwise I would go to a list like what SEOmoz or Stuntdubl keeps for recommended SEO sources. These are two SEOs that have some of the highest traffic and following in SEO.

http://www.seomoz.org/articles/recommended.php

http://www.stuntdubl.com/partners/

By: carsten c

carsten c — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:01:13 +0000

SEM or SEO? SEM is Pay per Click (e.g. Google Adwords) and SEO is to improve on your organic (free) ranking in Search Engines.

I recommend to check the SEO and/or SEM Buyers Guide from MarketingSherpa (if you are a US advertiser). They are not cheap but worth the investment (I own them myself).
http://www.cumbrowski.com/CarstenC/internetmarketing_guides.asp

By: Danno_D_Manno

Danno_D_Manno — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:01:03 +0000

My brother does that stuff. He is really good. He is zelo(at)zelo dotcom