Recommended SEO Services Company

[TravG]

Anyone have any recommendations for a good SEO company? I have never used one and have always tried to do my own SEO but I have pretty much done all I can do on my own. If anyone uses a good SEO services company do you mind sharing who it is and a contact. If you want to PM me thats fine. I would be curious to know what all they provided for you. Looking for white hat SEO. The hat can be little worn and dusty and may be a little off-white but no black hat.

Thanks

[chaumi]

Have you asked yourself these questions? Do you have a specific intent? ie What do you want SEO support for?...and how much are you prepared to pay.

Link acquisition (actual)?
Link acquisition (advice on how, so you can do it)?
On page/site SEO advice/audit?
Social media?

Or all or some of above.

Unless you get some good 'they can do it all and they're great' recommendations, it may be a good idea to consider using different services to work in different areas, both from a cost and a capability/effectiveness perspective.

All that said, conscious I just answered your question with a bunch more (though they may well turn out to be valid)......I will PM you a link which might be useful.

[Nick.RevenueJet]

Looking for white hat SEO. The hat can be little worn and dusty and may be a little off-white but no black hat.

Thanks

I laughed out loud.
More to the point though, not a big believer in SEO companies. I've seen so many huge sites crash and burn due to "expert" SEO services. Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll do just fine.

[edgarf76]

Barry Schwartz from SEO roundtable
Rankpay.com (not sure if they do gambling but I have a friend that uses them and loves them)

[sweetbet]

submitedge might be worth checking out.

[dfiocch]

submitedge might be worth checking out.

Based on my past experience... stay away...

[kristal_cm]

Sent you a pm.

[iGamingWriter]

I've worked extensively with John over at http://horseshoeagency.com/ on the redesign of ThePOGG.com (launched in Oct 2012) and his involvement in the time since has really been a huge benefit. He has a focus on conversion as well as SEO which I've found has helped to make the most of our traffic.

ThePOGG

[TravG]

Thanks for everyones replies so far!

[edgarf76]

There is something going on now, I see on my MOZ bar it has been fluctuating up and down for the past day or two. Another Penguin Release? Hummingbird Update?


I was driving the other day and was thinking of getting in touch with an seo company. I read that Barry Shwartz charges 500 for an hour consultation. I was thinking and still am of giving his office a call and trying to set up a phone call (Not sure if he will consult on gambling) 500 is a lot for an hour but I was thinking its the smart play because nobody is going to touch your site.

If he can give tips and explain how to improve serps it may be far better off that signing with a company. From my understanding there are very few good SEO's out there, some x google employees. They charge 2-5k a month and do not guarantee anything. I am not sure what direction to go in since I am not doing 7search anymore.

[TravG]

Yep - I am right with you Edgar. I do think however this is something that you probably get what you pay for. If they are good they are going to be expensive but even if you get a 10-15% increase it can pay for itself in a few months. I do not know who Barry Shwartz is but I imagine for $500 an hour he must be pretty well known and hopefully good.

I am struggling right now with whether to do a one time deal or go with a monthly hire. I agree probably few really good ones out there that's why I wanted to put this question out there to at least know who not to go to. Word of mouth here is probably the best way of finding anything out.

[GaryTheScubaGuy]

Most of what you need to know is right here, and members will help out as well. You can do a search for "top 12 tips for 20xx" and it will give you some good tips.

The issue most people do not realise when they say "do it yourself" is that time and manpower are the price, not competence.

I have ran an agency with 75+ SEO's, consulted 888 when they had 100+ SEO's in-house, and have built my own agency with over 30+ staff. Each time is the same problem; you train them up and somebody snags them up. Usually one of my own clients because he is our/my front-man.

I'll give you an example;

One average client requires;
- One Lead SEO
- Two supporting SEO's
- Several writers and possibly trained spinners (preferably both with spinning skills)
- Social Media Specialist
- Project Manager
- Analyst
- Coder (in some rare cases)

And whether or not the client is big or small (2500 to 50k pcm), they require the same crew.

There are a few corners you can cut but you'll either go through a menagerie of worthless outsourced dimwits that do more harm than good (if only in the time you waste), or the site suffers.

If you want a good startup strategy here's what I recommend;
- Write, or hire a writer to create unique, semantic-based and good resources daily. Link out to non-competing, high-ranking sites. Get a G+ Author profile and use it
- Use Onlywire for social media
- Pay $100 a month for ABNewswire and publish press releases as often as possible, use the same rules as you do with content generation
- Use Fiverr.com for Facebook, G+, Tumblr and Twitter posts (once a week, but regularly)
- Use LRT Link Detox and disavow anything red, provided you have checked them out. Many times a site is ranked bad through LRT only because it is not indexed. Provided the site isn't de-indexed, I'll run Onlywire and XIndexer on the exact URL and try to get them indexed. If this fails the site is probably penalised. I disavow the root domain and NOT just the page

A quick tip you may not know (this is assuming your on-site is healthy), if you have any 301's on orphan pages, old pages or duplicate pages, and they are pointing to your homepage, change these to target the correct internal page, or create one. 301's pointing to your homepage will cause you to lose all internal link juice.

If you have duplicate pages, or pages that are static or with little content above the template used on every page, use canonical links.

Start by running ScreamingFrog, LRT and a site auditor (plenty out there for free). Identify internal pages and sort by title, then description, then Headers and fix any duplicates.

Create a sitemap and robots.txt file. Be sure your robots.txt includes your xml directory.

This is a good start.

But just to silence the nay-sayers, SEO isn't html. You don't go out and learn it and your good forever. SEO is a tireless occupation that requires serious drive and motivation and a constant stream of evaluating opinions, testing yourself and living on 4 hours sleep a night. I've been doing this 16 years and believe me, I have tried every corner-cut imagined and have been through literally hundreds of outsourcer's, and have trained dozens of in-house SEO's. There are no corners to cut and unless you can get by with the little traffic longtail may provide then you (how many longtail versions of Bingo or Poker are there that convert?), and you want to get serious about organic ranking then start staffing up.

P.s. And this doesn't include the 3k pcm I spend on various tools, the countless hours I pay expensive (experienced) staff to run, monitor and evaluate the data, and things like a network with 2000+ websites which after content, spinning, WP maintenance and the cost of hosting and the domains (that's 14k per year alone), oh and the ABNewswire and PRWeb press releases that cost 1-4k pcm and the writers and submitters to process them.

P.p.s. - we won't include machines, office, taxes, insurance, holidays and all the other b.s. that comes with it you have to pay for

[bettinganalyst]

sent you a pm .

[LotusAffiliates]

I laughed out loud.
More to the point though, not a big believer in SEO companies. I've seen so many huge sites crash and burn due to "expert" SEO services. Just keep doing what you're doing and you'll do just fine.

Even Google blocked some SEO companies themselves which is most curious thing. Did you hear about JC Penney’s recent problems due to black hat SEO techniques used by their SEO provider? They lost SEO rankings and credibility. It could take time for them to regain their foothold and it could also hurt their reputation with customers. So I would suggest you to think 10 times before hiring a SEO company.

[Smith John]

I recommend godotmedia.com for the best SEO experience it ids one of the best SEO service providing company, just visit the page to find more.

[wettFORM.AT]

I can agree with thepogg and recommend http://horseshoeagency.com/.
I am currently working with John and I really appreciate his help.
He has a lot of experience in the igaming industry and I am sure he can help you with any issues you have.
We are currently working on the - on and off page - optimization, social media strategies and link building as well.
I got full reports with a detailed to do list customized for my site.
Cheers

Cheers

[asad4javed]

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