Monday, April 29, 2013

SEO Partner Announces Key Changes With Its SEO Pricing and Services, and Highlights a Marketing Must-Do for Businesses

SEO Partner has just announced it is making a minor price adjustment to one of its SEO packages. The Professional SEO Pro Pack, which delivers custom content creation and distribution to quality websites focusing on three keywords, will now be offered at $20 more. Owner and Internet marketing expert, James Schramko explains that the small price increase is due to the 50 percent spike in labor time required to complete projects. Schramko further adds that the intensified work is aimed at achieving the best results for clients.

Clients under a monthly package (ones that might serve nearly a hundred other clients), as opposed to a one-time package, will not be affected by the new SEO pricing, according to SEO Partner.

SEO Partner is part of SuperFastBusiness, owned and headed by Schramko. The division focuses on search engine optimization services and executes only the highest level of approaches. The SEO specialist ensures that their clients’ online marketing campaigns yield favorable results and that their websites achieve those high page ranks on search engines. Its current services include the SEO service packs (e.g. Pro, Domination, and Epic), Video SEO Package, SEO Reputation Repair Package, Website Check, and the newly priced SEO Expert Pack.

In addition to the new rate, SEO Partner has also revealed that high-value clients who bring in repeat business can expect to receive a focused strategy report from the company. A strategy report details the necessary methods a business needs to undertake in order to grow even bigger.

Says Schramko about this recent development in SEO Partner’s service, “We’ve been offering reports for $20 and a high percentage of those convert into sales … that’s because we are offering advice on what to do and where your pitfalls are.”

The strategy report is not the only tool businesses should consider getting. The well-known Internet marketing expert and business owner also highly recommends getting an SEO website check. He remarks, “If you’re serious about SEO, we’re serious about supplying it.”

Under SEO Partner’s website check, clients will be able to get a thorough assessment of their website before they choose an SEO service pack. The company’s team of website experts will make the corresponding recommendations and suggest the best possible pack for the client. The website check service does not include SEO repairs and is not ideal for websites that have had several warnings from search engines or ones that still implement black hat linkbuilding tactics.

Schramko, who adds that he will be releasing an informative post about image marketing, expresses, “We don’t want to work on your account if we don’t think we can fix it. We know a lot more about Penguin and Panda now that we have so many customers and we’ve seen so many search campaigns.”

For more information on how SEO Partner works to help businesses maximize their online potential, go to their website or get in touch with the SEO experts today.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The Best SEO Firms Will Practice What They Preach


The Best SEO Firms Will Practice What They Preach
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The SEO industry, unfortunately, has a relatively negative reputation. Ass-hat SEOs, an awesome term coined by Kristine Schachinger on Search Engine Watch, refers to those SEO providers that aren't SEOs at all, but they make money using our techniques while making the rest of us look bad. White hat SEO providers follow the guidelines of the search engines and black hat SEOs typically look for the loopholes (not necessarily making them evil, but its a riskier approach in my opinion). Both approaches have camps of devoted practitioners that swear by their tactics and both approaches can be incredibly successful when managed by someone who knows what they are doing. (For the record I'm in the white hat camp but that's me). But ass-hat SEOs are those that use tactics against the search engines terms of services that are known to create penalties and do not inform your client. If you are not good at black hat, but endanger your clients even when they know the risks, you're an asshat!

Its the ass-hat SEOs out there that have given the rest of us a bad reputation; they burn site owners with their approach and train our potential clients to believe that all SEO providers are out to scam them and play Russian roulette with their websites. We as real SEO providers need to educate would-be clients how to avoid these ass-hat SEOs and this is the best piece of advice I can offer site owners:
The best SEO firms (or consultants) will practice what they preach.
1. Does a prospective SEO partner have a presence in the search engines?

In case you didn't know, SEO is a highly competitive keyword and there are a few big SEO sites and agencies that tend to dominate the SERPs for it. For instance, my company has been in business for over 7 years and I know were still a long way from cracking the top ten for SEO. But a good SEO firm understands that there are more keywords out there than just SEO that they could effectively compete for and they do. This is the same approach they should take for your site as well. Your small business IT services company in New Mexico is probably never going to unseat IBM for a keyword like IT services in completely neutral SERPs (meaning no personalization factors are at play) no matter how much you want to. But that doesn't mean you cant build a search presence for yourself using other long tail and localized keywords with the help of a good SEO provider. If you cant find a prospective SEO provider in the SERPs without doing a lot of digging you might want to approach with caution. They could just be a new firm and still do a great job, or they could be an ass-hat that set up shop two weeks ago because someone told them that offering SEO services is a great way to make money fast.
2. Does a prospective SEO partner have a real social media presence?

They might not have 1000s of followers and fans but lets hope the few they do have are real people! Ass-hat SEO tends to believe in the more followers, more better attitude and will create or buy fake profiles to increase their numbers. Lets be honest, 100 robots aren't even worth 1 real social follower. Your prospective SEO firm doesn't need to have thousands of fans and hundreds of shares on every piece of content they create but they should have some kind of social media presence. Even a small group of loyal fans, follower and blog readers can have a positive impact on your SEO over time. Social and SEO get more and more intertwined every day and a good SEO firm takes advantage of every opportunity they're presented with, including social signals.
3. Does a prospective SEO partner offer advice that is consistent with other reputable sources?

There are hundreds of SEO blogs out there and, thanks to the glory of the Internet, anyone can say pretty much whatever they want about anything and call it a day. In my opinion, a good SEO firm is going to be offering the same kind of advice in their blog and on their site that many of the industry leaders also say. Not to say that there is only one right way of doing SEO but if you read a dozen blog posts on sites like Search Engine Watch and Marketing Land (and even this blog!) that say one thing and a prospective SEO partner says something else chances are the other dozen sites aren't the ones in the wrong. Ass-hat SEOs, like Kristine said in her article, are the ones that don't really know what they are doing and unfortunately its your website that is on the line. Why put your business in the hands of someone that isn't going to do right by you?

There are probably hundreds of full-service SEO agencies and consultants out there and, contrary to what it may look like at times, most of us aren't looking to make a quick buck. Id be the majority of us actually care about your clients (crazy at that sounds!) and want to help you succeed as much as you want to. But those few ass-hat SEOs out there make it that much harder for the rest of us to. Don't let an ass-hat SEO ruin your website and look for an SEO firm that practices what they preach for their own business!