PostsSEO Pricing Model - how much should you charge/pay? 18th January 2012 9:56 AM “Fantastic chart , very good for SEOer , i am working in a company , and didn't get the price as the charts say .” So Alan, I'm guessing you are Asian based. Do you disagree with the less than $25 an hour? Or are you from a different part of the world? Good to have some feedback from people in the industry  Just how effective is it using tactics from the SEO netherworld? 18th January 2012 9:46 AM “hello SEO is the long way to go , just be patient to do the white hat SEO, then you will see the effect to your website ...” Then of course there is the unscripted one liner spam  “...Funny thing is, one even tried to tell me that my writing stinks, and that they felt "dejected...” It must be the South African accent Sam, obviously dont write posh like wot we does Good marketing ploy though, start a blog comment argument to keep your link active! Sure fire way to make money on the Stock Exchange 17th January 2012 11:44 PM “Would seem that there on the way back up, had a punt 10 days ago and up 20% already.....Beats plumbing for a living ”Top man! Although not so sure about my original prediction of 50p in May after all the recent firesale and downsizing talk. Maybe 50p in December? But daytrading wise, it bobs backwards and forwards nicely, just a question of timing and dumping before it falls back again - which it will  Favourite online gaming 17th January 2012 11:38 PM For someone that lives online, never got into online gaming  About the only game I play is Blitzkreig circa 2003, offline versus the computer, albeit modded to an inch of its life. Never seem to get bored of it, was obviously a Panzer commander in a previous life... Naming your business - get it right or face an expensive rebrand 17th January 2012 8:51 PM “But Waterstones has got free national publicity out of all this...?” ha ha, love the cynical approach Linda What is it they say, all publicity is good publicity? Naming your business - get it right or face an expensive rebrand 17th January 2012 4:34 PM One of the hardest things to do when starting a company has to be naming it. But when you named yours, did you think through all the marketing mediums you are likely to use, or is your logo just as good offline as it is online? The British High Street Chain (yep there is still one left!) Waterstones has upset the Apostrophe Society by dropping its apostrophe and making it's name more usable in online marketing and digital media. The fact they are a book reseller seems to have made things worse But that simple change will cost a fortune as it's rolled out across all it's stores. BBC News - Waterstone's drops name apostrophe Seems a brave decision in these turbulent times  Starting a Business 17th January 2012 4:19 PM “I found a great site that offers free advice to small and medium businesses. It is < yawn... it's my own website.com > I have used it and it helped me a lot.” This is a classic post for the online reputation thread, or the lazy marketeer... Any more Robbie, and you'll have to ask a professional why you got banned I've deleted the other self promotion posts. Feel free to actually contribute, but no link dumping thanks. SEO Pricing Model - how much should you charge/pay? 16th January 2012 5:05 PM Be interesting though to know why Ozzies can charge $750 an hour, maybe it's to free up half the day for a bit of surfing? SEO Pricing Model - how much should you charge/pay? 16th January 2012 4:20 PM “This is stating the obvious but looks that if you want cheap SEO services that you might look into getting it from India.” IMHO I think the cheap SEO days are numbered. High volume, low quality and spammy links, poorly written and spun articles have had their day, especially if you value your business and reputation. As with all things, you get what you pay for. You maybe able to get 10 outsourced articles written for the same price as 1 local professionally written one, but in this post panda world, its quality not quantity... Just look at some of the SEO posters on this forum, you can quickly spot which ones know what they are talking about, and which ones are just link dumpers Search Plus Your World - Google changes results again!! 16th January 2012 3:31 PM Just noticed this for the first time on a .co.uk search, so it's arrived on the google.co.uk   Hmm, dunno if this will be good or bad? Guess it will force us all to use Google+ |