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If You Are Such a Hotshot SEO, Why Are You Trolling For Clients? Posted: 10 Jul 2012 07:08 AM PDT Think about all the big name SEOs, the ones who are big on the speaker circuit at a variety of conferences, the ones whose blog posts get retweeted and commented on, the ones with about a zillion followers (and who only follow a few themselves).  Basically, the so-called SEO experts.  They talk the talk and seem to make it known they pretty much know everything about anything SEO, Google and how to rank.  But if they are so freakin awesome at SEO, what the hell are they doing trying to round up clients?  If they are the hotshot SEO they make themselves out to be, why aren’t they simply hiring people to work on their own properties, rather than working for other people’s web properties? Now really think to all those SEOs you look up to in the industry.  Are they selling a consulting service or some type of service package?  I bet nearly all of them – if not every single one of them – are selling some kind of service, whether it be link building, social media campaign management, paid search, or straight up SEO.  What big name SEO can you come up with that doesn’t either work for a company they don’t own or work to gain clients in some compacity?  I struggled to come up with two. Unless you work for a company pre-IPO like Google or Facebook, working as an employer won’t make you rich.  And those you work for as a client or contractor seldom if ever give perks afforded regular employees.  So why invest your time to make someone else rich, merely for an hourly fee or a set project rate? Could these hotshot SEOs be hiding something more sinister – like the inability to get their own stuff indexed and ranking, so they hide behind “fixing” client’s websites where they could blame poor performance on “prior issues” or “management issues in getting things changed”.  Yes, how many times have we heard some big name SEO complain that having to get approval from management for every little change is the reason they weren’t able to fix a site?   It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to look at a site and be able to tell the potential client that “those backlinks are bad” and “we need to remove the spammy footers”. Granted, some SEOs just aren’t that creative and coming up with a site idea is akin to torture.  But you would think somewhere along the line, they visited a site and thought “Damn, I could do this site so much better AND rank for number one.”  Or they could ask friends for input (and pray they don’t steal the idea).  But they don’t, even when they have the resources to hire writers or link builders, or whatever it is they need to get the job done.  Heck, they could outsource the whole thing and just oversee its creation, then manage the SEO end of things, they don’t.  So why?  Probably because they are trying to hide the fact they actually suck at SEO and would never be able to get a brand new site anywhere near the top ten in Google. So if you are an SEO, stop trolling for clients and start trolling your own properties to grow them, monetize them, create them and rank them.  Because nothing shows an SEO’s skills more than building a site from scratch, especially when that scratch will line your own pockets instead of a clients. Looking for an SEO service that won’t get you banned?

Don’t miss my Email Conversion workshop at LeadsCon Posted: 09 Jul 2012 06:48 PM PDT I will be doing a sponsored workshop at LeadsCon on how to convert your leads into customers. Then once they are customers how to keep them coming back. The room only holds 125 people so come early. Session: Recover Lost Revenue Through Email Acquisition and Retention Date: Wednesday, July 25 Time: 9:00am – 9:45am Room: Petit Trianon If you have not registered yet get on it here: http://leadscon.com/leadscon-east-2012/register/ See you there! Trying to increase your Google rank that is like no other?

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What Guests Posts Offer that Commenting Does Not? - DailyBlogTips

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What Guests Posts Offer that Commenting Does Not? Posted: 10 Jul 2012 06:55 AM PDT Going to the old school blogging; earlier it was all about personal space and stuff and making money from blogging was not so popular. Those who were making money from blogs at that time were considered very successful and indeed it was. It was something you can be easily proud of. But how you earned money that time depended a lot on the right promotion of the blog. The right promotion strategy mattered a lot and also, at that time, bloggers did not wanted to spend a lot on this part of blogging. And that was before the advent of the social networks like Face Book and Twitter which are today the integral part of blogger's blog promotion strategy. So, bloggers found a way out and that was when commenting started. As you are reading this, you are very much aware of what commenting is. You comment on other blogs, people see your link there and through that, they reach out to you. It was effective and gave results. New bloggers were seen commenting at huge level. Every blog almost had their comment. CommentLuv came into existence that allowed comment makers to leave the link to their last post. It was, certainly, a wonderful comment strategy. But nothing is permanent and then came guest posting to overtake the commenting method. This took the blogging world by storm. It bought more results, like traffic and came in with side benefits of networking and credibility. And today, this is the first thing a new blogger start doing to establish himself and his blog. But still there is one school of thought who believes commenting is better than guest posting when it comes to free promotion method. I read this in a good blog recently and I was amazed. Guest posting always gives you improved results than commenting. So I decided to write about it what commenting can never give you as compared to guest posting. 1. Good Traffic If you have chosen the right blog to guest post, you can get an unexpectedly good amount of traffic from it. And that will be a targeted traffic; the traffic that will have an interest in what you write. With commenting, you can hope of getting traffic if it is a good blog where you comment and moreover, your comment should be in few early comments. A comment that features below #20 will get you no traffic. 2. Credibility What you build with guest posting which commenting can never fetch for you is the credibility. The readers of that blog come to know that you EXIST in the blogosphere. And that is what you want everyone to tell and know. Readers do not pay attention to the comment section. What will grab more attention of theirs a byline before the start of the post where it is written- THIS IS A GUEST POST BY MR X WHO IS THE ADMIN OF ABC BLOG. This will leave a better impression on readers and they will appreciate that you are a serious blogger and not fooling around in the blogosphere. 3. Networking In the long run, what you will be requiring most is the networking and coordination with other bloggers. In this blogging space, you cannot survive if you want to blog entirely on your own. From time to time, you will be requiring help and cooperation of other bloggers and for that, the earlier you start the better it is. Drop a note of thanks that admire you or give you a feedback, find those bloggers whom you feel are like you and you can collaborate with them. Guest blogging will help you in that networking once you have established your credibility. 4. Exposure This is pretty much an after effect of the above two methods. You blog can grow only if it gets exposure. You can't blog in dark and expect to be a hit. Guest blogging will get that exposure for you. People will see your guest post in one blog and then they will see your posts in other big blogs of that niche. That will be a big, big plus for you. You are getting that extra edge, extra awareness that you need big time to get off the blocks of blogging. Apart from average traffic, honestly, you can never achieve the other three things through commenting. Until you are a complete freak and comment at almost every blog in the blogosphere; people will never recognize you through commenting. And if you are willing to put so much time into commenting; I would suggest you write 2 guest posts for different blogs. You will be able to see the difference, yourself. Lee is a part time blogger and he writes about blogging tips, brand building, make money online, SEO , affiliate marketing, traffic building and etc. He shares his adventure and experience on BloggingWp.com. Original Post: What Guests Posts Offer that Commenting Does Not?

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