Jen Carter asked:




For many website owners hiring a SEO company can be extremely difficult. How do you select a company with the right qualifications and demeanor that matches your preferred need? Examining yourself is a good way to start your search for the best SEO firm. Acknowledgment that the minimum requirements for successful optimizing of your website is more than just search engine criteria but also rich content is important when selecting a SEO company. Search engine optimization firms must have the best combination of professional copywriters, web designers, product designers, developers, marketers, advertisers, analysts and entrepreneurs to be considered for selection.

When researching the best SEO Companies to hire you should always ask them eight basic questions that will tell you if that is the best company for you. Asking these questions can help eliminate fraudulent search engine optimization firms and guide you in the right direction.

The first question to ask any SEO Services Company you are considering is the ranking guarantees they provide. If they have none to provide then you should look into another firm.

The second question to ask that many people overlook is what type of changes do they think is needed to your website. You do not want to agree to a firm and then later regret the changes they made. Find out everything up front.

The third thing to find out is their approach to linking. Certain link programs can be key to long-term success using SEO and evaluating a possible firms approach will help you to determine if it is the right one for you.

The fourth thing to inquire about is the reporting and communications you will receive. The best SEO firms have workflows in place for all client and vendor deliveries as well as expectations set.

The fifth thing to inquire when selecting the best SEO company is their pricing options. It is important to work within your budget.

The sixth thing to find out about your potential firm is the reason of their low page rank.

The seventh thing you should inquire about your SEO company is to name some of their competitors. This question will determine if the firm is honest or not. An honest firm will gladly name the competition. A dishonest firm will avoid this question or hesitate. The eighth question to ask a potential SEO firm is their prior references and successful rankings. Finding out this information will give you a great idea of whether or not this is the best SEO firm for you to hire. Inquiring about these eight things will make selecting the best SEO firm or company easy.

Stuart Low asked:




Visibility is essential for successful business. You need to be seen as well as heard and those who continue to be successful do so because they make their visible profile a priority.

Profile, advertising and marketing have undergone radical change since the evolution of the internet. The internet id now the first port of call for people looking for a product or service and therefore it should be the first place you turn to when looking to let people know who you are and what you have to offer.

Search engines like Google are the new yellow pages and the process of ranking high on search engines, know as Search Engine Optimisation ( SEO) now forms an absolutely crucial part of business growth, no matter who you are and what you do. Some things simply can’t be ignored.

Nobody can sell an invisible product or service and SEO is all about improving your visibility and internet presence via carefully chosen keywords and a solid understanding of the technicalities of how search engines work and how to make the most out of them.

You can be sure that your competitors are making SEO a priority and you are merely aiming for second place if you are not doing likewise. What many don’t know is you are nowhere near second place if you fail to embrace the SEO revolution and no one gets to the top without dedicating time to this vital internet tool.

Understanding and experience is key to creating the right kind of SEO for you so this is something best left in the hands of people who know what they are talking about. Professionals specialize in the field of SEO and their results are a great example of what can be achieved by letting experts do what they do best. It does not cost the earth and is more of an investment than a business expense as good, updated SEO has longevity and is commonly viewed as an asset rather than a headache.

Many clients have gone from strength to strength thanks to fast, effective and reliable SEO work. Professional companies understand their clients and who their target audience is and tailors the SEO accordingly. The results are impressive, resulting in much improved Google rankings, web links, business enquiries and ultimately, sales.

The internet is huge and there is a massive international audience out there who might be interested in what you have to offer. There is a way to reach them and your business can be transformed with help from the professionals. Moving upwards in Google means moving up in the world, it’s as simple as that. What are you waiting for?

Jolon Warren asked:




Seo Press Formula, by Brian G. Johnson, is being released on Nov the 6th. Brian G. Johnson has worked in internet marketing for over 6 years full-time and in his newest product (having just produced just two products ever to date) he details how he created traffic and income on the net via blogs. In his own words, he aims to “share everything I know about wordpress and driving free search engine traffic for profit”. It is a basic goal, however does he manage to deliver?

You will find a main eBook of over 70+ pages and videos which relate back to several parts of the main eBook. The eBook goes over several areas but is primarily divided into just these sections: A quick look at websites online, setting up your blog and how to make it as SEO friendly as you can, niche exploration, extra keyword investigation & information and then finishes with more information about web 2.0/video/social bookmarking websites. The information is presented well and is easy to read. There are over 20+ videos which go into a visual demonstration of some of the sections covered in the main eBook, however for folks which are pressed for free time and don’t feel like watching the videos to check if there is anything of use will find a basic description of what each video covers in the main eBook. In a nutshell, the main eBook details all the required steps someone should go through to create a blog and then how to make the blog SEO friendly so to generate as much traffic as they can based on the keywords . Brian has attempted to promote his information as a plan, hence the title Seo Press Formula. The main eBook is essentially what he thinks to be the plan people need to carry out if they want to make profitable blogs. Taking that into consideration, let’s take a look at where I think the product fails to deliver.

The sales page for Seo Press Formula boldly states “How I Made $21,192.61 in 90 Days” however the actual product in no way goes into any depth or detail of how you could generate those sales or money. Statements of this kind on sales pages need to be taken with a grain of salt. Furthermore another let down is that about half of the main eBook is devoted to actually installing and making your blog SEO friendly (approx 40+ pages or so). A huge portion of that material is basic and can be found elsewhere online for free. To give you an example of this one part goes over how to install wordpress and another covers installing widgets like All in One SEO to improve the SEO factor of your blog. While most of the information offered in those pages is crucial and definitely can help your blog rank higher for your chosen keywords (such as permalinks etc), it appears to be that the norm for most products is that a huge portion of the material is all about basic or fundamental steps which leads me to personally consider this product is more for beginners or beginners with some experience. Once more, there is nothing wrong with fundamental or basic information, but why aren’t authors offering 40+ pages on advanced information?

While more than half of the information is basic, a lot is covered and a lot if not all of the advice given is valuable and isn’t a waste of time. A part I liked was that the author even suggests what parts you could skip or skim over if you already are experienced in blogs etc. Based on just how much is detailed, there are bound to be parts that most beginners didn’t know about or have heard about and just have not looked at in enough detail. I am of the opinion that most people know that there are many things one can do to help the SEO ranking of a site and its very easy to overlook some steps or tricks that you can implement. It is in cases similar to this that I consider the methods detailed is a nice refresher and can be good to jog your memory of what can be done to try and boost your SEO ranking. Another aspect about SEO Press Formula that I consider offers some use for beginners is the niche selection. While this does not mean the niche selection is the same length as just creating and making your blog SEO friendly (more than 40 pages), but it does try to offer some information of value.

Basic ways people can find possible niches (checking eBay etc), then scoping out competition and competing websites along with approx keyword traffic and using google trends to spot possible trends. The material within is once more fundamental and very basic, but for a those starting out it should be of use. Usually, most products released often completely brush over market/niche selection or at best offer a few lines of what they believe to be information but usually is nothing more than fluff. Finally, towards the back of the eBook there is a huge resource area with social book marking sites, rss directories and other resources that you can use to link to attempt and improve the rank of your website. It is an extensive list and folks shouldn’t really have any need to search for more places to submit to online as there is already enough to keep you busy for a long long time.

Do I believe this is worth buying? Possibly the best way to answer this is by taking a look at the goals or aim Brian had with Seo Press Formula. The main goal was that he wanted to teach everything he could about blogging and using SEO to get free visitors. Did he deliver? Basically I think he did and would say yes. A quick look at the main eBook makes it obvious that he includes an extensive amount of information on wordpress, making it SEO friendly and using different methods or sites to drive free traffic to it. It is the claim of helping people to generate profit that worries me. The core focus to me of the eBook is about setting up your blog and making it SEO friendly to drive traffic. Not much information is given about generating profit other than a few quick references to adsense and affiliate products. Despite this I believe there information within is useful, as long as you aren’t buying this product with the intention of getting rich over night. I think you will find the information is more for beginners than anyone else. Those with some knowledge of blogging will still find a few pieces of useful information, but I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone who already had some knowledge in the area of blogging. In summary, if you are a beginner you stand to more than likely gain some good information from this product.

Folusho Orokunle asked:




SEO Press Formula was launched in the Internet marketing world, in November 2008, and since then, it is slowly and steadily making a name for itself in the field of tutorials for making money while staying at home, going in for affiliate marketing and niche marketing, and how to take full advantage of search engine optimization.

To tell you very frankly, there are so many search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, as well as niche marketing gurus out there that one is hard-pressed to look at all the products, which they are either selling or promoting. That is why one needs to make sure that he goes straight to a place where he is not going to waste his time, money (USD57) or energy, but rather getting plenty of useful information which can be utilized properly in making money hand over fist.

Many people going up on the Internet look through the reviews of a product, which just happens to be a glorified sales letter, masquerading as a frank review. This definitely does not come into the category, and the reviewer has been through some of the tutorials, and most of the book. This is definitely not going to promise you the moon, as well as tell you that you are going to become a multimillionaire overnight, well, that is a pipe dream. I would take any product, promising me that with a huge pinch of salt. This product Seo Press Formula does not make this tall claim at all, so that is the reason why I decided to try it out.

Issac Frost asked:




Let’s discuss the first set of videos off the forth coming SEO CodeBreaker program, which I have had the pleasure of seeing. Topic 1 of the SEO CodeBreaker program deals with the general basics. It’s starting at 0 folks. So when a person watches this part off the video they have to make a wipe off their mind and take in the information. Advanced users may be turned off and might want to jump into the juicy stuff but its advised to observe them so when the advanced section comes up the person have already grasped the core fundamentals of the program. Topic 1 is basic information but for the complete newcomer its quite useful SEEING it and HEARING it rather then READING it.

Why is it better to see and hear it? Because humans tend to memorize and grasp concepts faster when seeing them in action while hearing them. This may be the actual clue off the SEO CodeBreaker program. Charles Kirkman is approaching a different avenue to teaching people about a particular subject, in this case cracking the SEO.

The first set of videos comes from Topic 1. We kept the details to a minimum to protect Charles Kirkman work.

1. Welcome to the SEO CodeBreaker family! This video gives you a quick rundown about what SEO is all about.

- This first video is a general welcome to the program. It also discusses Black Hat vs White Hat. Many people ask themselves, which one is better? Charles Kirkman draws the line on this subject answering this ages old debate.

2. What are search engines and how do they work? Before you can achieve search engine success you need to understand how they work and most importantly that they are based on a business model.

- The second video touches on some basic facts about how Search Engines work. It discusses how Search Engines perform four core functions and how Search Engines are in this for the money just like you are. A newcomer will find this very useful information, advanced users will see this as either a refresher course or something unnecessary. but given Charles is guiding the newcomer by the hand it is expected that this section would be there.

3. Do you really know the difference from a search engine and a directory. Most people don’t understand the difference and use the words interchangeably.

- The third video talks about the difference on Search Engines and directories. Search Engines actively seek websites, directories only work when people submit things to them. Some people use these terms as if they where the same when they are in fact very different from each other.

4. A simple overview of the steps in an SEO project. Before you begin any SEO project you need to know what will be involved.

- The beginning of the real meat of the SEO CodeBreaker. Charles Kirkman begins to get into detail about the simple steps in any SEO project. Without these fundamentals it will be like dialing the wrong number combination even when you have the right numerals. It is important to understand the right order in which to work with a SEO.

At the moment Topic 1 of the SEO CodeBreaker program is fundamental stuff, quite basic and useful for complete newcomers and even for advanced users to know just exactly where the much advanced terms and techniques come from much later on. However this is not quite enough to convince me. As a person who has worked closely with marketing I know how much ‘hype’ promoters and marketers can do for a particular product. So does this product live up to the hype? It certainly is at the moment. But there are things that still require for one to dig deeper. One must know the motivations behind this product. Is it for the money? A half baked scheme to cash in on the situation concerning the difficulty of SEO? What will make this different from the multiple programs out there?

For one as stated this is not a book. But rather a set of videos. This makes the learning process interactive rather then ‘boring’ as some people might find from reading an e-book. Furthermore the fact that the members see and hear everything that is being done offers a faster way to learning how to deal with a SEO then a book would have ever accomplished. For the time being I keep myself apprehensive on this product. It might be the next hit or it might just sink. Time will tell.